The Star City School District has been named as one of 13 school districts across the country as a “Project: Lead the Way (PLTW) Distinguished District.”
According to the Lincoln Ledger newspaper, PLTW is a nonprofit organization that serves millions of PreK -12 students and teachers across the country.
To be eligible for the award, the Star City District had to have had 20 percent or more of its students in each grade participating in a PLTW program during the 2020-21 schoolyear or have each school in the district meet the PLTW criteria during the school year.
The newspaper reported that the district offers PLTW Launch (PreK-5), PLTW Gateway (6-8), and PLTW Computer Science, Engineering and/or Biomedical Science Jimmy Brown Elementary, Star City Middle School and Star City High School.
