2025 EDD Symposium
The Symposium marks the end of another year! This was the 12th Annual Symposium -- this year adding more App Development students from the Computer Science Pathways from Western, Mervo, Patterson and Forest Park!
Students had a 10 min presentation with questions from education and industry partners, as well as a poster presentation and a brief networking activity.
2024 EDD Symposium
We held our 11th Annual EDD Symposium at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on Thurs May 2nd. About 40 students presented from Mervo, Patterson, Western and Greenstreet Academy. The companion event, - the Innovation Showcase was held on Thursday May 9th, with only 2 teams. We were joined by industry partners and families to hear about these groups' ideas and how they solved it.
On behalf of Baltimore City Public School System’s Project Lead the Way Engineering teachers and students, we would like to invite you to our (semi) Annual Engineering Design and Development Symposium. Students in the Project Lead the Way Engineering pathway culminate 3-4 years of hard work with a Capstone project - tasked with creating a solution for a problem. At this event, they are sharing their solution and their design process.
We are seeking volunteers to evaluate posters and brief presentations from each team, if you can spare part of your day on Friday May 5th, from 10am until 2pm.
BCPSS PLTW EDD Symposium 40 teams / poster & presentations
Friday May 5th 10am-2pm at the Baltimore Museum of Industry
1415 Key Hwy, Baltimore, MD 21230
RSVP here:
2023 Innovation Showcase 5-6 teams / presentations
Wednesday May 10th 5-7 PM at Open Works
1400 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202
RSVP here:
Please join us for 1 or both events!
You can find more details here as the event gets closer!
https://www.bceabmore.org/edd-symposium
Feel free to respond to this email with any questions, or call John Bachman 410-499-1570
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The Basics
Baltimore City will host two events presenting and celebrating the work done by students in the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Engineering Design and Development (EDD) course at five city high schools!
The five schools participating are:
Patterson High School
Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School
Edmondson-Westside High School
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Western High School
With special thanks to our partners who sponsored or helped with these events:
- Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Whitman, Requardt, & Associates
- Society of Women Engineers, Baltimore Chapter
- Maryland Space Business Roundtable
- Whiting-Turner
- IEEE
- Development Facilitators, Inc.
Special thanks to the Baltimore Museum of Industry and the Green Street Innovation Center for hosting this year! Past event hosts include:
- Johns Hopkins University
- Morgan State University
- University of Maryland BioPark
The daytime event, the EDD Symposium, is a chance for all students and teams to present their projects, interact with engineering experts, and get feedback on their designs and what their next steps could be.
The evening event, the Innovation Showcase, is a chance for one team from each school to show off their amazing designs, ideas, and project development work to a broader audience from industry, higher education, and local community members.
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"Engineering a Better Student"
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What do we need from you?
We need evaluators to review and provide feedback to student teams on their projects. A great question-and-answer period following each presentation is what makes this experience most valuable for our students!
The event organizers will provide the rubric and an orientation video for all volunteers about a week before the event - RSVP at the Symposium link above if you can help us out!
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What is EDD?
Engineering Design and Development (EDD) is the capstone course in the PLTW high school engineering program. It is an engineering research course in which students work in teams to design and develop an original solution to a valid open-ended technical problem by applying the engineering design process. The course applies and concurrently develops secondary level knowledge and skills in mathematics, science, and technology.
Utilizing the activity-project-problem-based (APPB) teaching and learning pedagogy, students will perform research to choose, validate, and justify a technical problem. After carefully defining the problem, teams of students will design, build, and test their solution. Finally, student teams will present and defend their original solution to an outside panel. While progressing through the engineering design process, students will work closely with a community mentor and experts and will continually hone their organizational, communication and interpersonal skills, their creative and problem solving abilities, and their understanding of the design process.
