Jun 29
I received an email earlier this year from one of the first Baden Academy Research Fellows. She is attending a great high school in another state and went to show off the great work she had done starting a chess club at Baden Academy. Oh no! Her information from the chess club site was gone! …
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Jun 23
Mon-Tue-Wed July 15-17 from 9 am to 3 pm at the STEM Leadership Center @ Baden Academy Participants will be introduced to electronics and the Arduino microcircuit board, learn how to solder, and begin to program light patterns with Java. They will take home their Cubes and Arduinos. They need to bring their own soldering …
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May 26
Our company, Grow a Generation, has had the distinct pleasure to contract with a wonderful public charter school in Western Pennsylvania for the last seven years. We provide research fellowships to teams of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders as they develop meaningful projects using science, technology, engineering and math. This week we celebrate our …
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Mar 24
Take the first step in a Passion Based Project. This isn’t just about identifying what you want to study in college. The Find Your Passion journey sets you on the path of an Odyssey to meet the people you want to work with in the future, the problems you want to spend you time solving, …
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Nov 26
The four leaders of our Future Engineers afterschool club and the authors of the upcoming book “Wings to the Sun” took the afternoon to tour the amazing Swindell Dressler. They were there to learn more about the kilns that fire ceramics. They have inherited our media labs love of ceramics! Their book was inspired by the …
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Oct 12
NEW STEM LEADERSHIP CENTER IN BADEN, PA Join us for our grand opening Thursday, November 1, from 6 pm to 8 pm at Prevention Network and Class Academy 270 Ohio River Blvd, Baden, PA 15005 (In the plaza with the Pizza Hut!) Sign up for the Coding Lab or apply for an Odyssey Fellowship. Students …
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Jul 21
Bats in Danger tells the story of Brownie the Bat. Her friends are dying. While Brownie is a creation of 5th-grade authors, her plight is not. Kaitlyn Desrochers visited Mammoth Cave when she was in 3rd grade. She learned about the effects of white-nose syndrome on the bats and the images spurred her into action. …
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Jun 30
Carter Catalano and Hoby Schweikert, two 5th graders from Baden Academy, came into their school’s media lab with questions about genetic research using animals and insects. They learned bizarre stories and heard from people afraid of “GMOs,” before they turned to actual scientists engaged in real genetic research. What they discovered inspired them. Dr. Emily …
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Jun 09
I am very proud of the hard work of Quincy, Angelina, and Clayton (and the bravery of Aleenia to inspire them with her story). Their story is one of compassion, one of hope, and one of science – reliance on Addiction Scientists to come up with evidence-based help to try to end this terrible epidemic. …
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May 25
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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