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Nearly 100 people showed up over the weekend at the Philadelphia Police Training Center as part of a giveaway of tuxedos and dresses for special occasions.
Jason Corosanite learned an important lesson this spring: 25 students is too many for a Zoom call. “When we first went to distance learning,” Corosanite, co-founder of the String Theory Schools public charter school network in Philadelphia, says, “we had all the kids logged on at once.” It didn’t work. As Corosanite explains, students would “turn off, hide in the background.” School officials have the final word on reopening. “We think being in and in-person to the greatest extent that we can is super important,” Corosanite says.
The hackathon will cater to minority boys and girls. They'll build apps focused on education, restorative justice, masculinity and more.
WHYY By Preschoolers in Rwanda look at the books created for them by String Theory School students in Philadelphia. (Provided by String Theory Schools) About 1,000 preschool children in more than a dozen schools in Rwanda have each received a picture book designed by a group of high school students in Philadelphia. At String Theory charter’s Philadelphia Performing Arts school, 21 teenagers ranging from grades 9 – 12, created “Baskets of Fun, Under the Sun” with Books and Beyond USA, an initiative to produce books for young readers in Rwanda. According to BBUSA, Rwanda has few books f...