Carol Malstrom left, and Martha Cyr, Director of WPI’s K-12 Outreach Programs, were on hand at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel on Aug. 18 to receive Lt. Timothy Murray’s endorsement for WPI’s Project Lead The Way program. Standing next to Murray is Betty Lauer of Quinsigamond Community College.

WPI’s efforts to bolster the state’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) enrollment received high-level accolades this week, when Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray endorsed WPI’s Project Lead The Way, a nationally-acclaimed STEM curriculum for grades 6-12.

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) was one of six statewide STEM initiatives endorsed Thursday during the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices conference in Boston. On hand to receive the endorsement were Martha Cyr, Director of WPI’s K-12 Outreach Programs, and Carol Malstrom, Affiliate Director of PLTW. In 2004 WPI was selected to be the state’s affiliate university for Project Lead The Way, which is project-based and uses real-world problem solving as a framework.

Read more about Lt. Gov. Murray’s endorsement here: http://www.wpi.edu/news/20112/ngastem.html

- Martin Luttrell, Public Relations Associate