At the One8 Applied Learning Student Showcase, student teams present projects in-person to 500+ industry professionals.  They receive verbal and written feedback that celebrates their work and helps draw connections to the work of professionals.

Event Information

Time: Friday, May 8th, 2026, 8:30am-12:30pm

Place: The Track @ New Balance, Boston MA

Draft Schedule: 

• 8:30-9:15 | Arrival & Setup (light breakfast served)
• 9:15-9:30- | Opening Remarks
• 9:30-11:50 | Student Showcase
• 11:50-12:10 | Lunch (boxed lunches available to eat onsite)
• 12:10-12:30 | Awards & Closing Remarks
• 12:30 | Dismissal

Registration for Student Showcase is by program. Schools with multiple programs must register each program separately and identify a different program chaperone. 

Schools may bring up to 3 teams for each program, with the following exceptions:

• Schools bringing Capstone projects have the opportunity to bring more projects.  Please reach out to Julia at [email protected] to learn more about our new Capstone project caps for 25-26.
• Clean Energy teachers may bring 1 additional Clean Energy team (for a total of 4 PLTW Engineering teams)

Planning Resources:

• Showcase Flyer & FAQs 
• Eligible Projects List
• Parking and Transportation

Student Presentations — What work to include

Projects should be complete and solutions developed in teams (i.e. no individual projects) and include both a final prototype as well as documentation of how students arrived are their solution.  More concretely:

• DKP: Unit 4: Petition Project should be a group of 2-4 students who can speak to the process of writing their petitions, giving & receiving peer feedback, and what it means to sign petitions.  Students can present their individual petitions as a group on a single trifold poster in addition to the process.  If students bring their Unit 6 project milestones, they should bring their group’s work to date and come prepared for feedback on their potential action steps.
• Investigating History:  Students should bring their grade’s project listed above, presented using a trifold to engage industry and community partners.
• OpenSciEd: Final transfer task – (e.g., thermal cups, human body system models, protective cases, light box models, re-designed speakers) and background thinking including initial consensus model, ending consensus model, investigation design and data that informed the consensus model, and any end-of-unit engineering solutions
• PBLWorks: Evidence of student reflections, documentation of student feedback and revision, final product/presentation, project rubrics, pictures/videos from other avenues where students presented their public product (if it was presented before)
• Project Lead The Way: problem statement/design brief, constraints, sketches, decision matrix, testing data, evidence of modifications, physical prototype
• ST Math: A trifold poster showing an ST Math puzzle and description, the math behind the game, how the game relates to the real-world, and how it relates to at least one profession

See below for example projects from Showcase 2025!