Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is an organization that provides elective STEM courses in high schools. Some courses offered include Intro to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering, Digital Electronics, Biotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Aerospace Engineering, etc.
I have a slot in my HS schedule for either APES or PLTW digital electronics. I want to do chemical engineering, so I think they’re equally somewhat, but not really relevant to the career I want. APES could potentially get me college credit, whereas digital electronics probably won’t because very few colleges give credit for PLTW classes. However, my question is about rigor from a college ...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how do colleges look at PLTW Courses (for 4 years) on your transcript? According to my school, it is one of the leading providers of STEM education, but we have to sacrifice an AP or Honors course in order to take the class. Right now, I am taking Principles of Engineering, and it is very engaging. I would like to hear your opinions or if you are taking PLTW ...
I’m taking PLTW Design and Drafting and my teacher is kind of notorious for giving out bad grades on a whim and long story short I’m already borderline passing third week in lol. I’m on my freshman year and I’m taking that class for my required art credit. I just wanted to know if getting say, a B or B- on that class would affect my college admissions later much. I want to know while ...
The online course is AP Comp Sci A which I understand teaches Java. (Though AP Comp Sci Principles is also avail online – but it’s very similar to the PLTW Computer Principles so no reason to take it. In fact, when you look up PLTW Computer Science Principles it says it matches up with the AP Principles framework. The PLTW does specifically mention Python as the programming language, if ...