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April 2020
Children’s Health Fair
Children between the ages of 6 and 12 will have the opportunity to experience health care through hands-on demonstrations, stimulating visual representations, and fun games. Physical health and nutrition is the focus of this event, but children can also expect to learn about dental and mental health.
Find out more »DCPZ Exhibition of Teacher and Student Learning
This annual Exhibition features documentation of teacher and/or student learning in classrooms across the DMV. A variety of exhibits--encompassing early childhood to graduate school, across disciplines--will showcase the way Project Zero ideas are deepening engagement, thinking and understanding in diverse settings. Attendees will interact with the exhibits and provide feedback, and perhaps even try on some Project Zero strategies. Special features at this year's Exhibition will be an opening talk by Project Zero researchers Edward Clapp and Sarah Sheya, as…
Find out more »Panthers STEAM into History
Pikeville Panther Jr. Engineers have been using coding, engineering, robotics and making to bring Social Studies to life! At this event Jr. Engineers will team up with parents, community members, and educators to experience these awesome learning opportunities.
Find out more »Remake Learning Days
Remake Learning Days community night. will take place at Wesley Christian School, where STEAM activities will erupt with hands on activities. Many activities will take place such as making your own lava lamp. Our staff is creating a buzz by hosting our second annual Remake Learning Night.
Find out more »Challenger Earth Day Celebration and VR Showcase
The Challenger Learning Center of KY will celebrate Earth Day with free activities focused on educating students about the Earth and it's systems, including a virtual reality lesson! Activities will cover our atmosphere, energy, natural cycles, and habitats.
Find out more »Building Digital Learning Content for Your Classroom
Have you ever wondered how can you introduce your students to the resources of the Smithsonian without leaving your classroom? Spend a day at the Freer|Sackler learning how to connect your students to online Smithsonian resources through hands-on instruction. After light breakfast refreshments, spend an interactive morning at the Freer|Sackler examining Japanese art from the special exhibition Meeting Tessai: Modern Japanese Art from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection through Project Zero Thinking Routines and poetry writing. After lunch (provided),…
Find out more »Dinosaur Day
Make Play Doh dinos, build a pterodactyl stick puppet, play Tricera-toss, inspect dinosaur tracks, dig for dinosaur bones, and hatch a fizzy dinosaur egg at the Lee Avenue Branch on Saturday, April 25 at 2:00!
Find out more »Care at the Core: Caregiving and the Future
Caregivers are critical to the flourishing of young children and families. However, caregiving is heavily undervalued and often invisible. This workshop will engage participants in The Care Game, an interactive experience that provides players a deeper understanding of the needs of various stakeholders. Through play and discussion, attendees will examine their assumptions about caregiving and consider how to equitably and humanely meet emerging care needs of the future.
Find out more »Welcome to UpSpring
Please join us for a journey into the lives of area children experiencing homelessness. The voice of children who are impoverished and without homes are rarely heard. Their perspective usually overlooked. Welcome to UpSpring, we will whisper the narratives of the children that we serve so that you can gain you some insight. Making choices, let alone healthy ones, are very difficult for people who do not have access to stable environments. You and your children will walk in the…
Find out more »Remake Learning Days: Things From Scratch
Remake Learning Days: Things From Scratch is where we take items from left over crafts and make new things. Use your imagination! This event is focused on Elementary Aged Children!
Find out more »STEM Carnival Night
Families will work together on various STEM activities at South Floyd Elementary's STEM Carnival. Activities are designed for grades K-8 and will include everything from designing and creating roller coasters to coding robots!
Find out more »AES Remake Learning Night
Allen Elementary School's Remake Learning Night is an opportunity for students and parents to see amazing things our students are creating, and tools they are using in their learning. During the night our Student Technology Leadership Program students will showcase their award winning projects, and share STEAM items in stations. All stations will be student led. Looking forward to showcasing our amazing students and their amazing learning.
Find out more »Remake Learning Days: Toddler Time
Remake Learning Days: Toddler Time is for ages 0-5. We focus on reading, songs, and crafting.
Find out more »STEAM Day
Students and their families will enjoy learning together through various S.T.E.A.M. activities.
Find out more »Remake Learning Days: Painting Spring
Remake Learning Days: Painting Spring is for Tweens/Teens. This is an instructed painting class. No sign-ups necessary. First 20 tweens/teens in the door will get to participate.
Find out more »May 2020
STEAM into Summer
Stir up some chemicals and create; build circuits, robots, and create runs; design and build structures; apply science and math to create art, and learn how to use math in interesting and fun ways.
Find out more »Challenger Earth Day Celebration and VR Showcase
The Challenger Learning Center will Celebrate National Astronomy Day on May 2nd with free activities and a showcase of our virtual reality programs! Activities will cover subjects that are important to our planet, like atmosphere, plate tectonics, energy, and more! We will also have an hour-long interactive virtual reality lesson!
Find out more »Space is the Place!
In conjunction with our celebration of National Astronomy Day, join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope! Enjoy hands-on activities, demonstrations, live 'star talks' and planetarium shows throughout the day!
Find out more »PBL Challenge
The PBL Challenge is a free 20 day challenge that is run on Instagram and Twitter for teachers who are interested in Project-based Learning, but who need a little more encouragement. Every day a different challenge is posted for teachers to try a best practice of PBL- from critical thinking routines to exhibiting student work publicly, to having students work in groups using best practices of collaboration, to attempting field work. For every challenge a series of resources are provided…
Find out more »Arts Alive
Arts Alive features the creative accomplishments of our K - 12 students. The event features student work from a variety of mediums, including pottery, paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, school publications and writing projects. Student work from the family and consumer science and technology education departments and performances from the music department will also be available.
Find out more »Saturday Swim School
Saturday Swim School gets people (both kids and adults) into the water and swimming, obviously, but for the Remake Learning Days, we'll also explore wearable tech that goes into the pool to aid swim coaches and swimmers. Swim and measure beats per minute tempo and a host of other functions with timing, communication and scoring fun at the pool.
Find out more »WVU College Sampler Day
Middle school students and their parents are invited to join us on WVU's Evansdale campus for an opportunity to learn about majors housed within three Colleges including the John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Reed College of Media, and the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. After a welcome from University Relations, participants will cycle through three 45-minute stations representing majors in each of the academic units including on-camera storytelling, the engineering design process, and hospitality…
Find out more »Introduction to Mobile Robotics: Build and drive a robot chassis
The Girls of Steel Robotics Team (FRC team 3504) is hosting a workshop focused around our innovative robot chassis building project on Saturday, May 9th, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, for students in grades 3 to 7 (entering grades 4 to 8 in September 2020). This project lets participants build and drive a completely functional robot chassis in less than two hours and has been completed by everyone from children in grade school to business executives. Our goal for this…
Find out more »Pittsburgh Supports Women in Chess
"The most powerful piece is the queen." Pittsburgh’s Women in Chess event celebrates the city’s initiatives to support young women and girls in the game of chess. The event will include an all-female chess tournament and a special presentation by one of the country’s leading female chess grandmasters. We ask people to use the following on social media as much as possible before and after the event: #pghsupportswic. Women In Chess is an initiative of the Queen’s Gambit Chess Institute.…
Find out more »Remake Learning at Butler Intermediate High School
Butler Intermediate High School is excited to host families with children at our second annual Remake Learning Event. We will have opportunities for students to participate in an introduction to coding, complete an activity in our Makerspace, create items for animals, build monuments, engage in science experiments, and much more!
Find out more »Remake Learning Night – Sto-Rox
Sto-Rox School District has recently made some exciting changes. With the addition of a new STEAM teacher, two new innovation STEAM labs, new art and music teachers, and a focus on collaborative learning, there's plenty of excitement across the district. Students collaborate on meaningful coding and design projects in the innovation labs. In art and music, you will also find students creating and doing fun projects together. At the Jr/Sr High School, teachers continue to use the maker spaces to…
Find out more »EQT Children’s Theater Festival
Located in the Cultural District, this year's EQT Children's Theater Festival includes: Professional theater performances from around the world Over 40 FREE hands-on educational and cultural activities! Family-friendly gallery installations, public art and interactive art! FREE outdoor pop-up performances featuring local and regional artists! Frog Stop Scavenger Hunt throughout the Cultural District featuring a free, fun prize!
Find out more »Passport to The Motherland: A trip back in time to Africa
As historians have found ancient civilizations have provided the foundation for many of our modern day societies from politics and trade to community design and familial structures. The 6th grade students have been tasked with critically thinking about the three ancient civilizations of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai and the multiple facets that made up their societies (community, culture, religion, trade/wealth, politics, and interactions with other cultures.) With that information, the students will work in cohorts and design tourist materials and…
Find out more »Wondrous Works at Wilkins
Wondrous Works at Wilkins invites families to enjoy a night of learning at a variety of STEAM stations, which will include robotics, coding, and virtual reality. As families view the exhibit of student projects, they will also have opportunities to experience this hands-on learning by creating, making, designing, and constructing at such fun stations as the bubble pool, catapult challenge, making butter, racing boats, rocket blast, and the ultimate egg-drop challenge. Wondrous Works at Wilkins is for families with kids…
Find out more »EQT Children’s Theater Festival
Located in the Cultural District, this year's EQT Children's Theater Festival includes: Professional theater performances from around the world Over 40 FREE hands-on educational and cultural activities! Family-friendly gallery installations, public art and interactive art! FREE outdoor pop-up performances featuring local and regional artists! Frog Stop Scavenger Hunt throughout the Cultural District featuring a free, fun prize!
Find out more »Saturday Swim School
Saturday Swim School gets people (both kids and adults) into the water and swimming, obviously, but for the Remake Learning Days, we'll also explore wearable tech that goes into the pool to aid swim coaches and swimmers. Swim and measure beats per minute tempo and a host of other functions with timing, communication and scoring fun at the pool.
Find out more »Introduction to Aquaponics
Aquaponics is a method of growing plants hydroponically by using wastewater from aquaculture as the source of nutrients. Students will explore biology, plant propagation, water chemistry, engineering design, and agricultural technology. In addition, students will explore the rapidly expanding career opportunities in emerging agricultural technologies. This day-long program will allow students to become familiar with the background and basics behind the science of aquaponics. No experience is necessary for this introductory camp. Students will participate in hands on activities to…
Find out more »World’s Largest Matt’s Maker Space
Matt’s Maker Space is a place where kids can explore science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) through experiential and hands-on learning.Matt’s Maker Space was started by the Conover family in memory of their son, Matt, who loved technology, creating and tinkering. He passed away from cancer at the age of 12. There goal is to inspire a new generation of creative, collaborative and experiential learners through STEAM focused programming. Each of the Mt. Lebanon School District elementary schools have their…
Find out more »EQT Children’s Theater Festival
Located in the Cultural District, this year's EQT Children's Theater Festival includes: Professional theater performances from around the world Over 40 FREE hands-on educational and cultural activities! Family-friendly gallery installations, public art and interactive art! FREE outdoor pop-up performances featuring local and regional artists! Frog Stop Scavenger Hunt throughout the Cultural District featuring a free, fun prize!
Find out more »Making Across the Curriculum Interactive Exhibition
The Making Across the Curriculum project began in 2018 as part of the larger Agency by Design initiative at Harvard Project Zero. Initially based at Washington International School, the project has spread to four DC traditional public schools, one charter school, two Catholic schools, and another independent schools. This year, it involves over 50 teachers learning together about the promises, practices and pedagogies of maker-centered learning. Exhibits will range from early childhood through high school, across subject areas, and will…
Find out more »EQT Children’s Theater Festival
Located in the Cultural District, this year's EQT Children's Theater Festival includes: Professional theater performances from around the world Over 40 FREE hands-on educational and cultural activities! Family-friendly gallery installations, public art and interactive art! FREE outdoor pop-up performances featuring local and regional artists! Frog Stop Scavenger Hunt throughout the Cultural District featuring a free, fun prize!
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“The Surprising Lessons a Paintbrush Can Teach” Workshop
This exciting hands-on painting STEAM workshop for families, led by Artist Richard Gallego, will teach a simple, fun approach to creating a landscape painting using acrylic paints. The surprise? Along the way, participants will learn a bit about physics and philosophy, math and music, and the important role beauty can play in our lives. A brunch reception will occur before the lesson begins. Parents are encouraged to work with their younger children as they follow the instructor’s step by step process…
Find out more »17th Annual Innovation In Education Awards
Following an intensive application and selection process for our Innovation Grant Program, four classroom programs will be recognized at the event for their ability to get students excited about learning and enhance learning outcomes through the effective use of technology. Each classroom awardee will receive a financial grant of $5,000 to help scale this innovative program in their school district. inspire Award The Inspire Award is given to programs that inspire, excite, motivate, spark and/or influence teachers to teach and…
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