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A laptop-building seminar for younger Florida students is a highlight of Remake Learning Days, an initiative to bring computer literacy and other learning opportunities in STEM subjects to low-income communities.

When writing “When You Wonder, You’re Learning,” a book that breaks down Fred Rogers’ enduring appeal to children into an easy-to-understand blueprint, Pittsburghers Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski found Mister Rogers was still teaching them.

Pennsylvania was a haven in the decades preceding the Civil War for people seeking to escape enslavement in the South. But that wasn’t the case in Pennsylvania’s earlier years, when enslaved people and those who claimed ownership of them were part of the local population, including in Westmoreland County. The

The Westmoreland Historical Society has partnered with the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center and 14 other museums, libraries and cultural organizations across the region to activate the connection between

Makerspaces don’t just ignite kids’ learning. They are judgment-free zones. Mistakes not only can be made, but they help kids learn.

The Tull Family Theater, a Sewickley nonprofit, will be going by a new name for at least the next decade. It is being renamed The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center — or “The Lindsay,” for short — effective Jan. 1 ,2023. The change is part of a 10-year sponsorship by

In our first installment of nonprofits in the news, we have the scoop on leadership changes, programming changes, and recent accomplishments in the community.

To celebrate a milestone year bringing positive change to the local learning ecosystem, Remake Learning is throwing a bash promising to mix “audio-visual storytelling with theatrics and audience participation."

A local environmental group is recruiting high school students for a year-long educational program aimed at training up a new generation of air quality advocates.

Area students are part of a record-breaking, boat design challenge with more than 10,000 students from 134 schools across the state presented by Remake Learning Days Across America, a national nonprofit that started in Pittsburgh. Boatbuilding makes for an appropriate STEAM design challenge because the effort involves many areas of