Jan 20
Have you ever wondered what jobs are waiting for you along the Ohio River? Underwater welder? Barge traffic controller? Water Authority Chemist? Army Corps of Engineers? Come learn what opportunities you can strive to fill. Free to area teachers. Limited to 15 Students Cost includes lunch and bus $55 ($45 before Feb 5) Sign Up …
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Jun 18
Genome Science and Immunology STEM Career Tour Friday, July 20, 2018 Update: Tour Cancelled 6th to 12th graders are invited to join us for a tour of Western Oncolytics , a company running clinical trials with that use their discoveries to trigger the immune system of a patient to fight cancer. Did you know that viruses …
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Jun 18
Molten Metal and Materials Science STEM Career Tour Friday, July 13, 2018 Update: Tour Cancelled 6th to 12th graders are invited to join us for a tour of Molten Metal and Materials Science STEM Career Tour on Friday, July 13, 2018. The tour includes a visit to Vesusvius (the global leader in molten metal flow …
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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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On February 23rd, 10 Students from Seton La Salle High School and a pair of their teachers visited a wind farm located in the heart of Patton Township. They stepped from the bus into driving rain and a wind that blew against them stinging their faces. They met, huddled together among the cold and rain, …
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Mar 21
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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Dec 08
On November 17, The Students of Mrs. Steiniger’s Biology class from Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic arrived at the brand new Pittsburgh office of Bohler Engineering for a STEM Career tour all about sustainability. Bohler has been consulting on land development projects for a few decades now, and while not always demanded, they do consistently attempt …
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Dec 06
On Friday, November 17th Mrs. Steiniger’s Biology class from Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School toured the Center For Sustainable Landscapes at Phipps Conservatory, as part of Sustainability Stem Career Tour. The Center For Sustainable Landscapes is one of the greenest buildings in the world, meeting the requirements of the Living Building Challenge the strictest classification …
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Dec 04
My name is Tim Roos, I’m a sophomore at North Catholic, and I recently went on the sustainability field trip at North. On the field trip, we stopped at the Oasis Farm Fishery in Homewood. The main topic of the tour as sustainability, and how Oasis has incorporated it into its function. Homewood is what is …
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Dec 02
Fifteen students from Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic got the incredible opportunity to travel around the Pittsburgh area and learn first-hand about sustainability and engineering. We heard from many great minds in the fields of engineering and conservation. I was one of these students, and the whole day was eye-opening and I learned an incredible amount …
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