The Biz-Ed Blitz: Connecting Classrooms to Careers event is aimed at bringing educators and employers together, to improve STEM education training options.
With the help of the Remake Learning Initiative, Steeltown offers entertainment and media training for young, aspiring filmmakers and a "reel" TV show that will debut this spring on Fox Network.
“My mother believed that if young women of color had caring adults to nurture them in their young years, it would change their lives,” says Kathi Elliot.
On a cloudless blue sky day in July, about 20 Hazelwood teens scrambled on slides and jungle gyms in Frick Park and learned from city leaders what it will take to build a trail of playful spaces in their community.
Pittsburgh is at the forefront of the movement advancing innovative ideas and practices in education. For proof, just look at the initiatives highlighted as part of the National Week of Making.
We will always need to know how to make things. How to design. How to solve problems. That means manufacturing is not just learning the lathe. It's learning robotics. Electronics. Physics. Chemistry. Communications. Language arts.