In honor of the United Nation’s international Day of the Girl, the students of The Ellis School were asked, “What do you wish that adults would work for to make […]

Pittsburgh Promise seeks more students to serve through scholarships The Pittsburgh Promise has completed its fourth year of awarding scholarships to Pittsburgh Public high-school graduates with a clear sense of accomplishment […]

At last year’s international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, one group of college students entered the contest with a bit of synthetic biology that broke down glutens into sugars in […]

Mad Science Supply and Surplus: new pop-up shop The merchandise says it all. At the new Mad Science Supply & Surplus pop-up shop at Assemble in Garfield, you can buy make-your-own-monster […]

Pittsburgh girl, finalist UNICEF world kids’ video contest When Dawnell Davis-White was filming her one-minute video Future Newscaster as part of a Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (CMOP) video workshop this […]

The Labs at Carnegie Library has winter workshops lined up Teens are still getting used to what is available at TheLabs@CLP (digital media labs at four Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh branches), […]

Pittsburgh Cares 12-year-old winner in ‘Who Cares’ video contest Pittsburgh Cares’ first video contest is a winner, as far as Holly McGraw-Turkovic is concerned. She’s the organization’s director of youth […]

Teens and glass arts: a bright combination at Pittsburgh Glass Center It’s not more difficult to teach teens the various glass arts than it is to teach them to adults, […]

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that having kids can actually boost your protection against getting a cold. Ryan Jaslow of CBS news has the surprising details here.

Deanna Garcia of Essential Pubic Radio reports that Pittsburgh has become a charter member of the national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading Communities Networ, which aims to make certain kids can read at […]

This year, the Greater Pittsburgh Afterschool Consortium gathered as many as 1,000 kids from 10 after-school programs in Allegheny and Beaver counties to volunteer in the two areas, including the Schenley Heights […]

A study by the Commonwealth Foundation of Pennsylvania schools finds that those schools in trouble academically have five times as many incidents of violence in their student populations. Read the […]

Did you ever think Mr. Rogers would go viral? PBS Digital studios has repeated, redefined, and remixed Mr. Rogers’s iconic personality into this autotuned clip entitled “Garden of Your Mind.” Read […]

Thirteen members of Laila Al-Soulaiman’s family have died in the clashes that began last year between Syria’s citizens and its government, which started in her home city of Daraa. She […]

Students from four Mon Valley school districts spent a year of after-school and weekend time confronting the negative images and real issues head on at their schools, and the results […]

STEM education is still all the rage, but adding the arts to science, technology, engineering and math to make STEAM is catching on. Locally, the movement just got some help […]

The latest Fred Forward Conference on June 3-5 — run by the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College — drew 160 people from […]

Pittsburgh Cares is creating a Youth Advisory Council for the first time to make sure younger voices have a say in the direction of its volunteer activities. Students 14-18 years […]

KidsPlay is back in Market Square for summer Tuesday mornings, 10-11:30 a.m., through August 21. It’s a free program of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP), and spokesperson Brooke M. Fornalczyk […]

hildren who have a solid father figure in their lives are more likely to finish high school, more likely to go to college, and less likely to go to jail […]