Accessible Music Performance Software
Gestural music making
Activation Lab
Igniting persistent engagement in science learning and inquiry
Apps4Kids
Handheld learning, free mobile games, inter-generational communication
Arts and Bots
Turning art into technical adventure, turning kids into inventors
assemble
Community space for arts + technology in Garfield
Buhl Community Park and Cloud Arbor
Revitalizing a Northside park
Can*TEEN
Inspiring girls, promoting math and science careers, changing the world
Character Therapy
Popchilla, emotional expression, engaging children in communication
Children’s Innovation Project
Building electrical circuits, hacking toys, inquiry-based learning
CHS-TV
Students broadcasting their morning announcements
Click! Spy School
Learning games for girls, using math and science to solve mysteries
Community LEARNS
Engaging students, after school opportunities
Computer Science Network
Building robots, creating games, animating kids’ love for computer science
Crafton Elementary STEAM Studio
Thinking critically and creatively with project-based STEAM learning
CreatION Sound
Robots playing classical music
Crossing Fences
Sharing Stories, Connecting Generations of African Americans
Cubelets
Smart building blocks, interlocking robots, organic behaviors
Curious Creatures
Friendly characters, recycled materials, sustainably powered
Curriculum Toolkit
Early childhood syllabi, lesson plans, pedagogical treasure trove
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for a new generation, school-readiness skills
Digital Discovery Room
Digital resources, natural exploration, young citizen scientists
Digital Salad
Art making meets technology on the farm
Digital Toys for Math Literacy
Games teach math skills, children and adults learn together
Discovering Nature Through Play
Engaging with nature, seeing through salamander eyes
Dream Flight Adventures
Dream Flight Adventures: a classroom journey through space, the human body, and more
Early Learning Environment
Early literacy resources, improving learning and communication
Elizabeth Forward Media Center
Transforming the school library for the 21st Century
Entertainment Technology Academy
Engaging students, gaming, technology
Fitwits
Educational tool for health literacy
Fraction Planet
Game-based curriculum, Angry Birds with fractions, Common Core aligned
Head Start and Early Head Start
Preschool for low-income families, preparing children for kindergarten
Hear Me
Hear Me: digitally collecting children’s personal stories for social advancement.
Hello Robo!
Machine learning, traveling curriculum, serving hundreds of Head Start
Hip-Hop on L.O.C.K.
Teaching life-long skills through a mock record label
Improving Afterschool Training Series
Training professionals, helping children
Insta-Tangram
Chinese puzzles, printmaking, digital fabrication, and a steamroller
Invent-Abling
High tech textiles, building electronic gadgets, teaching children through doing
iQ Smart Media
Blending the web, tv, and other media to integrate edutainment
Ko’s Journey
learning math, gaming, storytelling
The Labs @ CLP
Learning digital technology, enabling creativity, geeking out
Learning Parties at Assemble
Hands-on learning stations, community arts, creative space
The Literary Arts Boom (The LAB)
WRITE... explore, experiment, and invent!
The MakeShop Show
Young makers on TV, live from the Children’s Museum
MAKESHOP
MAKESHOP: taking real tools, materials and turning them into real fun.
Message From Me
Interactive device, enhances parent & child communication
Mobile App Lab
Mobile App Lab: giving high schoolers programming experience and opportunities.
Modular Mighty Magz
Magnetic architecture, design learning, kindergarten standards
NASA Data in My Field Trip
Satellite imagery, informal exploration, Earth's biomes
My Story Maker
Bringing characters to life, helping kids tell their stories
Natural Discovery
Kinetic sculpture, interactive playground, learning by experience
Neighborhood Voices
Encouraging communities, validating individuals, archiving experience, sharing voices
Out of the Box and Onto the Wall
Visual storytelling, mixing performance and animation, cartooning comes alive
Painting with Natural Selection
Manipulating genes, experiencing evolution
Papermation
Stop-motion animation, kids as artists, telling stories visually
Peg + Cat
Solving math problems in a wacky world backed with graph paper
Pittsburgh Advanced Cognitive Tutor Center
Technology tutoring students
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media Program
Learning technology, animating, photographing, filming, thinking critically about media.
Pittsburgh Power Flower
Kinetic sculpture, renewable energy demonstration, community education
Pittsburgh Youth Media
Cub reporters, digging into the issues, telling the truth
Pollinator Restoration and Education Program
Increasing biodiversity, involving students, gardening
Propelled to Read
Sharing books, promoting literacy, engaging the community
Quasi
Friendly neighborhood robot, perpetual 12 year old
Questyinz
Online reading game, summer reading fun
Ready Freddy
Kindergarten transition, kids tour their future school, meet teachers
ReefBot
Fish recognition tech, kid navigation, swimming in the Big Ocean Tank
ReplayMyPlay
Energy harvesting playground, turns kid power into electrical power
Robot Algebra Project
Girlscouts programming robots, STEM learning, teens mentor younger kids
Romibo
Do-it-yourself robot, build and program your new pet
School and Classroom Supplies Initiative
Classroom supplies at no cost
Sea Land & Air Challenge
Engineering remote-control eyes in the sky and on the waves
Shaler Area Green Initiative
High school gardeners, fish as fertilizers, learning about sustainability
SMALLab
Technology facilitating embodied learning
STEAM Project
Blending STEM & Arts, Increasing Opportunities, Inspiring Innovation
STEM Impact
Building Enthusiasm, Increasing Interests, STEM for All
StoryBoxes
Kids tell stories, neighborhoods connect, history comes alive
Take a Hike: Backyard Biodiversity
Exploring science, inspiring students, appreciating backyards
Take a Shot at Changing the World
Making films, connecting with history, inspiring change in communities.
Take p-ART
Digital storytelling workshops
TechGYRLS
Growing girl power, igniting passion for math and science careers
Text Detective
Tablet-based application and website, improving reading comprehension
Think Outside the Box Box
Creativity plus sustainability, all wrapped up in a playful package
Walks in the Park with Robotic Creatures
Kids, robots, nature
Waterfront Learning
Offering education online, flexibility for students
White Light
Kinetic light sculpture, additive color mixing, gets kids moving
WordPlay
Learning games, unexpected places, early literacy tool
Working Examples
Share ideas, collaborate with colleagues, work it out
Youth Engaged in Service
Connecting youth to volunteer opportunities, empowering youth
