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Category: Research Fellows

STEM Family Night

Arrive at 6 PM to receive your STEM Passport. Get your passport stamped at all 22 stations to get a free STEM Activity Kit for home!   Call 724-869-4269 to let us know you are coming or email [email protected] Check out the amazing research fellows projects!  Come and meet them!

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Future Engineers will be 3-D Printing at the STEM Family Night

I am amazed at the finish of yet another year of the Future Engineers club at Baden Academy.  Come visit their table at the May 31 STEM Family Night at Baden Academy and find out more about how these elementary school students not just learning about engineering the future, but changing lives today.

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Three Seton LaSalle Teachers named Distinguished Educators

Three teachers from Seton LaSalle High School are being honored this Wednesday,  May 23rd for the completion of a year-long Distinguished Educator Research Fellowship through Grow a Generation. Miss Emily Rosati and Dr. Anthony DeCaria partnered to lead seven Seton LaSalle freshman to write an original children’s book about wind energy in Pennsylvania. Their journey began …

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How Colors Make Us Feel – Goethe’s Theory of Color by Kelli Keriotis

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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Student written Opioid Book to be featured at county Drug Prevention Night

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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The Boy, the Bird, and the Turbine

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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The Propulsion of Young Motivation

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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Baden Academy’s Jaylee Duncan’s Ted Talk featured in National Playlist!

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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MG Kids Make Chocolate Foam

The Baden Academy “MG” Molecular Gastronomy Kids help us learn about surfactants like soy lethican and methylcellulose as they make chocolate foam. What fun! Visit lunchwithchemistry.weebly.com for more information about the MG Boys and Molecular Gastronomy. This amazing project is made possible through a research fellowship.  

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The Power of a Mentor

The week before school started I was hunched over a computer screen with Paul Flick, a wonderful FedEx programmer, volunteering time to talk me through trying to change scripts in computer batch files to try to get our Dragon Tag system working. “I ran the file, NOW I get the message Error:  Invalid or corrupt …

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