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Calling on Kids and Teens to Guest Blog for Black Friday Shopping Ideas!

Please share with your favorite young person!!! Young Guest Bloggers Needed. Parents and Grandparents are getting ready to spend lots of money buying holiday gifts for the favorite kids and teens in their lives.  Help us!  Can you write a 4-7 sentence description of what you believe would be the best gift ever or share …

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Hackathons

Make new friends.  Play with tech.  Earn some sweet prizes. Sign me up! Is your high school or college student looking for a great opportunity to do something meaningful? Look for a local Hackathon and gather a team to attend (the Pittsburgh area has the Mylan Hackathon, CMU Hack-A-Startup, Pitt Mobile App Challenge, Steel City Codefest , and the Verizon …

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Grow a Generation Research Fellowship

Grow a Generation offers fellowships, opportunities for kids, teens, and classroom teachers to receive scheduled time, space, support and resources to pursue a meaningful project at the cutting edge of science and technology.  Meaningful Projects Made Possible WHAT IS A RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP? Fellowships are an opportunity to dedicate time each week to adventure into the …

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Baden Academy Media Lab

View the 28 Video Highlights from the Baden Academy 2017 Research Fellows Research Fellows Program Beginning on Grade 3, Baden Academy Charter School students have the opportunity to apply to serve as a Research Fellow in the Media Lab.  Fellowships are year long projects (meeting about 60 minutes a week) that enable a student, group …

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A ticket to Mars!

Don’t miss out! By Sept 8, 2015: Send your name to Mars on NASA’s upcoming Mars mission, InSight. InSight will study the deep interior of Mars to understand how all of the rocky planets formed – including Earth! It will also measure “Marsquakes” and meteorite impacts. Click here to send your name to Mars InSight …

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Electrophoresis for Grades 3-5: Synthetic Biology for kids!

Synthetic Biology plays with the design and construction of new biological parts or systems and redesign existing natural systems (for example,a  a biotech hacker space in Oakland, California, are trying to make cow’s milk cheese without the cow. Using mail-order DNA, they’re tricking yeast cells into producing a substance that’s molecularly identical to milk. And if successful, …

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Still Home of the Free – Job Growth and Immigrant Start-ups

70% of new job growth in the United States, according to the Kauffman Report, is the result of start-ups. Many of these new start-ups are created by people who immigrate to be part of a nation that offers opportunity for them to found and grow a company.  Bloomberg reported “new entrepreneurs are now back on the …

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STEM Camp Update

STEM Career Tours (Grades 9-12) July 6-10 There are still a few seats open on next week’s STEM Career Tours.  Registration has been opened for individual days until the bus is full.  See the attached image of the schedule which includes Valspar, Cybergenetics, Astrobotic, 4Moms, First Energy, First Insight, Platypus, Percsolutions, Senservere, Bayer, Schroeder Industries, …

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STEM Careers Tour

DISCOVER YOUR FUTURE STEM CAREERS TOUR GRADES 9-12     *     JULY 6-10      *     8:30 – 4:30 Travel by bus to 10 companies and 5 college campuses in and around Pittsburgh for tours, discussions, activities, and explorations.  $395 Who’s on the schedule? Cybergenetics is the world leader in computer automated STR …

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Summer Camps @ Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic

Summer Camps at Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School JULY 6 – JULY 31 High School       Middle School      Upper Elementary Developing STEM Skills, grounding learners in a fun vision and competitive edge for future careers, all while building a more just and beautiful world. STEM Careers Tour  (Grades 9-12) July 6-10 …

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