Persistent Pittsburgh mom blogger Sara Crytzer, at Curious Little Kid, has compiled not one but two great lists of “20 things to do for under $20.” Check them out here […]

Homewood Nation’s Elwin Green writes about a Pittsburgh tech entrepreneur, Shimira Williams of TekStart, who is proposing a new Twitter hashtag for youth offering and those looking for local employment: […]

Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy had its first graduating class, and all 56 seniors graduated. Celebrate with the New Pittsburgh Courier here.

The Hive Learning Network Blog, EXPLORE + CREATE + SHARE, covered the amazing success of the Clairton High School robotics team, both regionally and nationally, at the BattleBots Championships. Hear […]

The Children’s Innovation Project When Junlei Li entered Melissa Butler’s kindergarten class in spring 2012 with a video camera, Butler didn’t realize Li was focusing his lens mostly on her. […]

Local architects tackle great school design Natural light. Stimulating colors. Open views from floor to floor and hallway to hallway. Spaces where the grades can mix and collaborate. If there’s […]

In black and white photographs of a playground in Copenhagen circa 1940, all the kids are thrilled to be playing with junk. It’s surplus bricks and lumber, but the children […]

Kids who thrive in the heat of these melting months of summer will find plenty of cool opportunities in the fresh air and sunshine in Pittsburgh. When the heat is […]

When Charlotte Murphy was in fourth grade in 2010, she joined the basketball team at Linden K-5. Then she discovered the true state of girls’ basketball in Pittsburgh Public Schools […]

Tamasia Johnson is a Promise Coach, part of a mentoring program helping Pittsburgh Public School kids take advantage of the Pittsburgh Promise college scholarship program. But she thought an extra […]

Kids love being sent on journeys to get answers and solve puzzles, so the Allegheny County Library Association’s online game Questyinz will be back June 1 with all new quests for […]

Where else can you hear someone say, “We have been doing a lot of neat things with bugs?” Not a lot of places – except the Roving Art Cart, Citiparks’ […]

Our local kids’ museum turns the decidedly un-kid-like age of 30 today, but the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is unabashedly celebrating with a very kid-friendly and public birthday party and free […]

Since 2009, Allegheny Intermediate Unit’s (AIU) Center for Creativity has been making grants to fund education focused on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). “It’s the concept of thinking […]

The Mattress Factory has a busy fall planned for local kids, and all of it centers around the Factory’s signature installation art. With a $10,000 grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, […]

FamilyLinks, a nonprofit connecting families to a variety of social services, has been taking kids to job fairs via their BNY Mellon Pathways Program for several years now. Pathways helps […]

At Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, the staff is busy working on the next tropical forest exhibit, which will concentrate on Central Africa, including Nigeria. To promote cultural understanding across […]

‘Power of Mentoring’ conference For the first time, the Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania will hold a conference — Harnessing the Power of Mentoring in Schools – aimed at helping people […]

FitUnited unites community groups Last October, the local United Way, Eat’n Park and Richard King Mellon Foundation together formed fitUnited Pittsburgh. Its aim is to improve kids’ nutrition and their […]