ALCOSAN project offers hands-on challenge and eligibility for college credit Students from Penn Hills and South Fayette school districts will be collaborating with ALCOSAN in the coming weeks to make recommendations for reducing storm water runoff on their high school campuses. To kick off the project, the teams met last week with Julia Spicher, a […]
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Blackhawk students present SPS project for PANTHERx
Students bring fresh perspective to PANTHERx PANTHERx Specialty Pharmacy General Manager Tim Davis was impressed enough with the work he saw from kids performing a project for his company that he wanted to follow up on their ideas. He was particularly interested recommendations that PANTHERx switch to cellulose packaging for drug deliveries, equip high tech […]
Regional Chamber Alliance Scholarship Foundation
Scholarship qualifications and guidelines Under a program made available from the Regional Chamber Alliance Foundation, the Consortium is pleased to announce scholarship opportunities to seniors graduating from nine area high schools as well as to students attending the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics. This program provides up to four $500 scholarships for seniors in the Mon-Yough […]
Meet the finalists for our 2017 Champions of Learning Awards!
Introducing the finalists for our 2017 Champions of Learning Awards You can and should make reservations now to attend our annual Champions of Learning Awards celebration on Saturday, April 1. Meanwhile, we’ve been introducing the finalists, working our way through one category a week in alphabetical order over the past six weeks. Now it’s time for the final […]
Charleroi Area and Albert Gallatin teams present SPS projects
Model Cleaners CEO praises student-consulting work When a team of Albert Gallatin School District students suggested that Model Cleaners hire a social media manager, company President John LaCarte called the idea “spot on.” He also praised a customer video they’d created for having an authentic feel, more like ones he’s seen on Facebook than […]
Consortium announces finalists for 2017 Champions of Learning Awards
Announcing finalists and a special partner for 2017 Champions of Learning Awards celebration Selection Committees for the Consortium for Public Education’s annual Champions of Learning Awards have chosen 18 finalists in six categories for 2017 and named a candidate to receive a Special Tribute. (Names in all categories are available in this complete roster.) Winners in […]
Consortium brings aboard two new Program Directors
New hires bring expertise in business and education With a major initiative unfolding to ensure students in our region receive the opportunities and experiences needed to explore careers and build soft skills essential in the workplace, the Consortium has added two new Program Directors, Sarah Brooks and Candice Williams. Sarah brings a background that combines […]
Fourth in four-part mini-series on Forum success stories: Sharon City School District
Sharon City School District’s Forum team focuses cultural changes A small group of students working with Sharon City School District’s Forum team last spring raised concerns about school safety and about their sense that students didn’t feel a strong connection with staff. The concerns prompted the team to conduct a survey of the student body […]
Third in a four-part mini-series of Forum success stories: Pittsburgh Allderdice
Forum team brings student voice to bear on school culture Pittsburgh Allderdice High School’s Forum team set out this year to harness student voice in service of overall school culture. After beginning late last spring with just a few kids who attended a Forum meeting in March, they’ve grown their group of participants to 35 […]
College & Career Knowledge takes 90 to Pitt Greensburg
Imaginary projects can help kids get a better sense of self Ideas that emerge when teams of 8th graders are challenged to imagine and invent something the world needs are by turns fanciful, practical and everything in between. But byproducts of the process are more the point. By bouncing their individual ideas around, coming to […]