Both educators and students find value in applying academic knowledge to real word applications.  In addition, it is also necessary for today's students to understand how to successfully work in teams.  In order to achieve these goals, a collaborative project between a university graduate business education (BE) student teacher and an undergraduate project management (PM) class was completed.  The student teacher and cooperating high school teacher sought to conduct a training session for high school faculty on Microsoft Excel.  In-house research found that junior and senior high school students are not maintaining the skills they learned in their freshman computer applications course. The research also found that many of the high school teachers themselves were not proficient in Microsoft Excel.  The purpose of this project was to collaborate to create a professional development training session on Microsoft Excel for high school teachers from a variety of disciplines so that they would be able to work towards a proficiency level of the software application and subsequently successfully create and administer cross-curricular student projects and assignments which incorporate Microsoft Excel.  This training was designed by the BE student teacher, the high school cooperating teacher, and the university PM class.  The goal of the training was to increase high school students' use of Microsoft Excel through cross-curricular activities in order to retain the skills students acquired during their freshman year.

This is a proposal for an interactive workshop in order to explain a cross-curricular project in detail, identify the stakeholders involved, examine the materials that were created and utilized, and share the lessons that were learned by this undertaking.