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Congratulations to Kelli Keriotis on her 3rd published book and being named a 2018 Distinguished Educator. How Colors Make Us Feel explores Goethe’s Theory of Color with kindergarten students from Baden Academy Charter School in Western Pennsylvania. Enjoy her reading aloud the poetry and art of Kelli Kerotis’ 2018 kindergarten class. Buy the book on …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/05/13/5085/
Baden Academy students Quincy Sirko, Angelina Dioguardi and Clayton Russell will be on hand with their new book, “What the Heck is Opioid Addiction.” at the BVIU Drug Prevention Grant – Parent Night. Please come support them, and find out what you, as a parent, can do to help end this epidemic. Our students’ book can …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/05/09/student-written-opioid-book-to-be-featured-at-county-drug-prevention-night/
Gabrielle Hirsch and Christian Conway, two Seton LaSalle students working with the Rebel Outposts research fellowship, had an opportunity to interview Dr. Chuck Wood, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and the Executive Director of the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling University. Take a listen to some fascinating stories from one of the …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/05/05/i-study-saturns-moon-titan-with-a-three-billion-dollar-spacecraft/
Energy is one of the three leading industries of the Pittsburgh Region and students at Seton LaSalle are getting ready to be lead the way! Seven Seton LaSalle freshman worked through the year with their English teacher, Miss Emily Rosati, and their science teacher, Dr. Anthony DeCaria, to write an original children’s book about wind …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/05/04/the-boy-the-bird-and-the-turbine/
Thank you April Johnston and Penn State Beaver for the fantastic web article of our recent fellows visit to your campus. Reprinted from http://beaver.psu.edu/story/3010/2018/04/06/beaver-biology-professor-star-book-published-local-fifth-graders April 6, 2018 MONACA, Pa. — Imagine this is our future: The insect population explodes. The Zika and West Nile …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/04/24/beaver-biology-professor-stars-in-a-book-published-by-local-fifth-graders/
Congratulations Brian Curry on you first published book, Max and the Tornado! He worked for two years assembling the story with mentors Mrs. Breaden and Tim VIgnere, painstakingly using Photoshop and original artwork from Kelli Keriotis to complete the illustrations. Third graders Matthew Minnite and Noah Schweikert finished the final two pages of artwork and got the …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/04/07/max-and-the-tornado-by-brian-curry/
The moon had already set over Pittsburgh on the morning of Friday, March 2, as a robotics classroom from Seton LaSalle stepped inside the Pittsburgh office of Astrobotic. Eleven students and two teachers met the people slated to be “the FedEx to the moon.” The future of education has been evolving. The acronym STEM encapsulates …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/03/21/the-propulsion-of-young-motivation/
1240 rolls + 6 loaves by over 250 volunteers from grades K-6 and ages 5 to 90 delivered to Meals on Wheels! Thank you to all the volunteers Aleenia Reich and Bella Rivera (great Take Action Leaders) Taylor Breaden (amazing Take Action coach!!!!) 48 Take Action kids from grades 3 to 6 who stayed 2 …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/03/18/take-action-involves-over-250-students-in-bake-for-good/
Download the new Virtual Reality App “Conner’s Virtual Reality Heart” from the Google Play Store. I want to say thank you to the 5 students from the Grow a Generation Virtual Reality Class who created this awesome VR experience for you. Thank you to Sari Abu-Hamad, Sean McCarthy, Derek Hufnagle, Logan Husek, Jacob Stewart as …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/01/28/the-making-of-conners-virtual-heart/
TEDEd Clubs international headquarters wrote recently about how inspired they were by research fellow Jaylee Duncan’s TED Talk made last year. They created a new YouTube Playlist, included her video, and sent it out on their international mailing list. When you listen to the kids she shares a space with, you can’t help but walk …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2018/01/28/baden-academys-jaylee-duncans-ted-talk-featured-in-national-playlist/