Category: PPHS

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Purdue Polytechnic High School | High School Graduation 2021

Well done, you have worked hard, and you have earned your degrees. Through unique project-based learning, we are able to individualize teaching and prepare our students for the next stage of their careers, whether that be professional, or academic. Many...

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Purdue Polytechnic High School Students Come First

As Purdue Polytechnic High School students from our first graduating class prepare for heading out into the world, students and teachers reflect on the last four years. At PPHS, students come first. Students learn to go above and beyond as...

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Graduating Seniors at Purdue Polytechnic High School Share Their Experiences

The graduating seniors of Purdue Polytechnic High School’s first graduating class share their experiences as students over the last four years. They share a hopeful message of growth, passion, and excitement for their bright futures. Many will continue their educations...

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Graduating ahead of her class

Self-directed learning model allows Katie Johnson to finish high school a year early Katie Johnson didn’t plan to graduate early – things just fell into place. Propelled by the self-directed learning philosophy at Purdue Polytechnic High School, she merely worked at...

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PPHS prepares me for my future

Project-based learning gives students the chance to explore variety of disciplines A radio commercial changed the trajectory of Jonas Gordon’s life. A technology enthusiast from a young age, when Gordon heard an advertisement promoting the launch of Purdue Polytechnic High School in...

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The potential to make the impossible possible

Purdue Polytechnic High School prepares students for the jobs of tomorrow During his sophomore year at Purdue Polytechnic High School, Adrian Martinez helped design a robotically controlled arm for amputees. The team created parts using a 3D printer and built a...

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Podcast Ep. 32: Purdue Polytechnic High School Celebrates First Class of Graduating Seniors | Shatoya Ward

In this episode of This is Purdue, Shatoya Ward, founding principal at Purdue Polytechnic High School (PPHS) Englewood in Indianapolis, discusses how PPHS is reinventing the traditional high school experience, and her excitement for the school’s first graduating class of...

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A persistent pursuit of ambitions

Taking control of education allows PPHS grad to realize his Purdue legacy Colten Lewis was searching for something different when he enrolled in Purdue Polytechnic High School. Learning that he’d be part of the inaugural graduating class further solidified that he...

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PPHS fuels creativity, builds confidence

Members of the first graduating class of Purdue Polytechnic High School to enroll at University this fall Xavier Howard knew he made the right choice enrolling in Purdue Polytechnic High School when he was asked to set his own freshman year schedule. ...

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In charge of their own education

Project-based curriculum allows students to self-direct their learning It could have been kismet. It was on Audrey Williamson’s (they/them) birthday that their mother first heard a radio commercial touting an alternative, STEM-focused high school that encouraged self-directed learning.  “They just...

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A suPURDUEper experience

Experience on PPHS robotics team inspires student’s career aspirations As a member of suPURDUEper Robotics, Keenan McKibben spent months building Purdue Polytechnic High School’s FIRST Robotics Competition robot. That year’s challenge — to retrieve balls and place them in a container....

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Passion projects hone creativity, problem-solving at Purdue Polytechnic High School

Student melds industrial design, architecture and engineering in construction of cardboard chair Eric Martinez doesn’t remember a time when he wasn’t building things. He always enjoyed playing with Legos and K’NEX. He once tried to build his own Newton’s cradle....