Education of Project Management at a Secondary School by Coordinated Efforts among Professional Organization, Junior High School, and University

Abstract

This paper describes a project for planning, execution, and evaluation of project management (PM) education in a junior high school. The project was conducted with cooperation of PM professional organization, junior high school, and university. The educational purpose is to give students communication skills, team work, planning skill, and awareness of the relation between society and technologies. Challenges are to design programs in such a way that keeps students interested, and builds a sustainable educational framework which enables the school to continue the education. The education is composed of three parts. The first part is to provoke communications among student team members. In the second and third parts, teams develop project plan, design and build a tower and a house.