Reinventing High School | Starting with Purdue Polytechnic
Channel: Purdue University
Date: 20/09/2021

"Are you going to have a STEM high school, or you going to fundamentally reinvent what high school looks like?”

Scott Bess, Executive Director of Purdue Polytechnic High School (PPHS), set out in 2017 to break the traditional, one-size-fits-all high school academic mold. The first class at PPHS spent four years experiencing hands-on learning, passion projects, and close collaboration, and in June 2021, they crossed the stage and launched into their futures. About 40 of the 100 graduates are attending Purdue University this fall. As Scott Bess said, “It worked.”

You don’t move the needle if you don’t take some risk. Scott Bess and the rest of the PPHS community moved the needle, and they’re not stopping any time soon.

To learn more about PPHS, visit https://lifeat.purdue.edu/pphs/