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School Counselors
If your school has embraced the Project Lead The Way curriculum, student counselors and administrators must attend one annual counselor conference held by the Wisconsin PLTW affiliate. At the conference you will learn about PLTW, receive updates and current promotional materials for distribution to interested students and parents, and discover how to use the PLTW Web site to find answers to questions from parents, students and other counselors.

Join us for the 2009 Counselor Conference held at MSOE

Choose the date that fits your schedule - Oct. 8 or Oct. 15

Join us for a day at MSOE for the 2009 Counselors Conference on either Thurs., Oct. 8 or Thurs., Oct. 15. At the conference you will receive updates on Project Lead The Way, enjoy a motivating presentation by Celeste Baine, engineer and author of Engineers Make a Difference, along with breakout sessions to enlighten guests on all the aspects of the curriculum and how it will inspire and motivate your students towards a future in engineering.

Details and online registration for the upcoming conference are available on the Wisconsin PLTW Guidance Counselor's Conference Web page.

Conference speaker Celeste Baine has listed her top 12 reasons to teach engineering:
  1. 48 countries (2.8 billion people) could face fresh water shortages by 2025.
  2. Population in developed countries will age and engineers can help develop assistive technologies so aging people can maintain healthy, productive lifestyles.
  3. To enlighten students who don't know what engineering is about.
  4. To help the energy crisis by finding new ways to produce or store solar, wind, wave, geothermal and other sources of energy.
  5. To help develop new medicines for numerous diseases.
  6. To keep up with the technology needs of society.
  7. To counter the violence of terrorists.
  8. To improve methods of instruction and learning.
  9. To reduce our vulnerability to assaults in cyberspace.
  10. To prevent devastation from hurricanes and other natural disasters.
  11. To improve our connectivity and ability to communicate with family and friends.
  12. To keep us safe at home and in other countries.

With a little creativity, any one of these reasons can become a lesson or discussion about engineering careers and serve as a catapult to further exploration.

Join the exploration at our Counselor Conference in October!

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