PTC Global Education Program Sponsors Real World Design Challenge

By DE Editors

Through its Global Education Program, PTC (Needham, MA) will donate licenses of Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill to all participating schools to create the technology foundation for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Real World Design Challenge (RWDC), an effort to align secondary education with 21st century workforce needs.

The RWDC is being launched as an annual event that will provide high-school students the opportunity to work on real-world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year student teams from participating states will be given the opportunity to design a solution to resolve a challenge that confronts one of our nation’s leading industries.

The PTC Global Education program, which serves to strengthen professional development for teachers by providing training and support from mentors in National Laboratories, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), industry, and higher education to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills,  provides software, curriculum, and tutorials to nearly 5M students, 23,000 teachers, and 12,000 schools in 28 countries.

PTC is also offering free licenses of its collaboration solution, Windchill, hosted on Hewlett Packard servers located at the DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TN), to be used by RWDC teams to improve collaboration among team members and with industry mentors.

For more information, please visit PTC.

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