AIU STEAM Grant Showcase: arts and tech collide for amazing projects

The AIU STEAM Grant Showcase brings together 25 school projects that demonstrate how arts and tech subjects can be linked in learning.

First teen night at Pittsburgh Glass Center: a blowout arts event

Teens can make art with 11 Pittsburgh arts and maker spaces at a new, free Pittsburgh Glass Center event just for them on Sept. 13.

Kids+Creativity poised for more powerful impact here, internationally

As Kids+Creativity enters its fourth year, it’s become “a machine that’s really churning now,” in “a city focused on education like no other.” And it’s gaining international recognition for Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Promise now jumpstarts technical careers too

For kids whose careers may not need college, the Pittsburgh Promise is teaming with CCAC and others to give college vo-tech classes in high school.

Millvale, a Kidsburgh community: a special video

Millvale was the first stop for Kidsburgh, Allies for Children and the Sprout Fund as we highlight kids’ resources across Pittsburgh.

Brashear kids get BBBS mentor2.0: ‘Like having a personal guidance counselor’

Big Brothers Big Sisters’ mentor2.0 will match students with college grads to help them with the non-academic skills college also requires.

Pittsburgh the ‘right place’ to host the National Forum on Arts Education

Pittsburgh was chosen to host the next National Forum on Arts Education on Sept. 11-12 as a gathering of national educational leaders.

Catalyst Connection helps teachers prepare kids for plentiful manufacturing jobs

Catalyst Connection and ASSET STEM Education have created new workshops to ready teachers to train kids in manufacturing job skills.

Student-made app brings help to North Hills Community Outreach

Students in Shaler learned about nonprofits’ missions and jobs, while North Hills Community Outreach got an app to bring in new aid.

The tomatoes that ate a school (and the story that won a PBS writing award)

For the third year in a row, kids who won WQED’s regional writing contest have placed in the national PBS Kids Writing Contest.

Brashear Association’s Allentown Center is haven in many ways

Kids at the Allentown Learning and Engagement Center, run by Brashear Association, get the chance for fun, homework help and new neighborhood experiences.

Horror videos and creative projects garner awards for teens at Carnegie Library

Teen writers and media makers will be recognized at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s annual Labsy and Munn awards on Aug. 6.

Teens make hip hop at the Arts Greenhouse at CMU

Hip hop is socially relevant to a lot of teens, so the Arts Greenhouse at CMU turns it into college lessons—and lessons that make college seem possible.

Inspired by Africa: First kids’ fashion show and fashion camp by FashionAFRICANA

The business and art of fashion can inspire Pittsburgh’s African American girls to higher self-esteem and a broader sense of beauty, says FashionAFRICANA.

Bugs, heat, hard work turn into eco-careers at Student Conservation Association

Kids can get their first job and their first taste of the outdoors through the Student Conservation Association.

Ready Freddy, United Way looking for cheerleaders for new kindergarteners

Getting kids to enroll in kindergarten on time and show up for school is more than half the battle in making sure schools work, says Ready Freddy.

“Help is on the way” not quick enough for kids’ mental health treatment

NPR’s “Shots” blog notes a study by Pitt researchers that shows how kids benefit from brief mental health treatments during physician visits.

Another reason parents matter in kids’ education

A Pitt researcher’s study in Child Development shows kids’ performance in school is partly dependent on their parents’ abilities.

Pittsburgh shows the way

Gregg Behr of the Grable Foundation tells the Harvard Family Research Project and the American Alliance of Museums how to remake learning.

Camp Delicious! will provide kids with lessons on healthy eating

Leslie Bonci is behind Camp Delicious!, the latest from Luminari which will get kids thinking about healthy food and eating.