Apr 20
Sitting in the heart of Pittsburgh, the Energy Innovation center stands as a symbol of the changes taking place within the city. Once the Clifford B. Connelley Trade School, the Energy Innovation Center functions as a prototype example of taking an older style building and bringing it into the next century while still keeping the …
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Nov 03
Students from Baden Academy classrooms worked hard today to help people from Folia Water save lives around the year. Our kids listened attentively as they learned about children in the world who don’t have water that come from a tap. Their faces expressed an innate empathy to learn that people in other parts of the world …
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Sep 20
Grow a Generation is pleased to announce a 6 week workshop preparing high school teams from Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic to compete int he 2015 Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Feel free to contact us if your high school or middle school is interested in preparing a team for the challenge. …
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Dec 30
From 2 Kitty Whisperers speaking at a law conference to students serving aboard the Orion Spacecraft as virtual crew members, it was an eventful year for Grow a Generation. Here’s a selection of 2014’s highlights AUTHORS 5th grade author and animal advocate Veronica was nominated by the ASPCA for the Humane Kid of the …
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May 02
I will celebrate, in two weeks, the fantastic culmination of a year of work by the third and fourth grade research fellows at Baden Academy’s Imagination Celebration. With limited resources and mentors that span the globe, twelve research fellows and their ten assistants have developed a virtual scale model of the school in MinecraftEdu, made …
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Apr 19
Grow a Generation is holding some exciting Camps at Baden Academy this summer! SUMMER CAMPS @ BADEN ACADEMY Mon-Fri, Jun 16-20 9:30-3:00 History of Robotics(Grades 3-8) Are you ready for the Google driverless car? It is on the roads in California, Florida, Nevada and Michigan. Spend a week exploring the history of autonomous robotics as we …
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Aug 12
A subculture of Do-it-Yourself (DIY) kids and grownup kids is emerging across the nation and the globe that is exciting! Makers pursue engineer-oriented projects such as electronic prototyping, robotics, 3-D printing, often combined with traditional arts and crafts, metalworking, and woodworking. Innovation is celebrated! I suggest you watch a few of Sylvia’s Mini-Maker Show on …
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Jun 28
Michael Jones, chief technology advocate at Google, gave the opening keynote at the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival. Michael was the chief technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local Search and the teams responsible for providing location intelligence and information in global context to users worldwide. He demonstrated two new technologies coming out of …
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Jun 22
It has long been established that the amount of education you have is a key predictor of how much you make and how long you live. Recent studies also demonstrate a correlation between a parent’s income and education level and the development of certain areas of their child’s brain that relate to learning, memory and …
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Jun 15
Friday night hosted the Imagination Celebration, an evening to celebrate all the hard work the incredible 2nd and 3rd graders of the Baden Academy Media Lab accomplished throughout the year. The Media Lab opened its doors this year with a vision from Mr. Stephen Cantanzarite to renovate an old science lab and create a research fellows …
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