Students Can Continue Their STEM Education Online Amid COVID-19 School Closures
BOSTON-Thursday 26 March 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) is offering its Onshape® product development software free of charge to high school and college students around the world amid school closures caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
Many
teachers and parents today are turning to remote learning in an effort
to reduce the academic disruption, especially in subject areas such as
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). With the new offering
from PTC, teachers and students can access this computer-aided design (CAD) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology over the Internet to collaborate on design and other engineering projects.
“This
is an unprecedented time, and we hope to do our part in helping the
many teachers and parents looking for resources to continue STEM
learning during this crisis,” said Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO,
PTC. “Similar to using programs like Google Docs for their English
classes, students at home will be able to collaborate as they
simultaneously create and edit designs. With this Onshape offering,
students can discover or continue their interest in STEM with a solution
that can be used to create cars, furniture, laptops, and more.”
Onshape
is a SaaS product development platform that is used worldwide by
thousands of professional and aspiring designers and engineers, and is
accessible from a wide range of devices, including Chromebooks,
MacBooks, smartphones, and tablets. As a pure SaaS platform, there is no
software installation required and no IT infrastructure to administer
and maintain, allowing students to get started easily and quickly in
order to collaborate, innovate, and have fun.
To create your free Onshape account, visit here.
About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)
PTC
enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with
software that accelerates product and service innovation, improves
operational efficiency, and increases workforce productivity. In
combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers
flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital
transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS
platform. At PTC, we don’t just imagine a better world, we enable it.
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Onshape, and the PTC logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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