Invitation to ABC CREATE COMMUNITY: RSVP by May 7th
hAPPY Hour
Location: Conny Creek Brewing Company
4323 Shearsburg Rd. Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania 15068
Overview: We’d like to celebrate you and your work with ABC CREATE this school year with a hAppy Hour on May 10th!
Special Note: Revised hours. Now from 4 - 7 pm. Please see the attached flier!  We hope you’ll be our guest for appetizers and drinks!

Appetizers from Oakmont BBQ!
 
We’ll also be launching our ABC CREATE Appreciation Raffle and drawing our prize!

Submissions open to ALL ABC CREATE COMMUNITY: Due May 8th
LOGO CONTEST: PRIZES + RECOGNITION
Overview: Students, Teachers, Administrators + Partners. 
10 MB or less. .jpg, .png or .pdf digital or picture or scan of hand drawn logo. Please retain original drawing.
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Open to Middle + High School Students: Due May 14th
Attention student gamers. G4C Student Challenge: Design a digital game relating to Kindness & Empathy, News Literacy or Wildlife Conservation. Recognition + awards including $1000 grand prize.
For the right middle + high students — this opportunity could be really meaningful.
LEARN MORE + Submission Details

Teacher STEAM Camp for educators who want to feel more comfortable integrating STEAM and for those who want to learn more!
Date and Time: June 25-28, 2018   8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
FREE, includes lunch + supplies. ACT 48
Registration open. Space available.

Girls' STEAM Camp for rising 6th – 9th grade girls
Date and Time: June 18-21, 2018   8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
$25 - includes lunch + supplies.
Few spots remaining.  Register now!

Submissions open to ALL ABC CREATE COMMUNITY: Due May 8th
LOGO CONTEST: PRIZES + RECOGNITION
Overview: Students, Teachers, Administrators + Partners. 
10 MB or less. .jpg, .png or .pdf digital or picture or scan of hand drawn logo. Please retain original drawing.
LEARN MORE

ABC CREATE @Plum
Location: Plum Senior High School, 900 Elicker Road, Plum, PA 15239

Girls' STEAM Camp for rising 6th – 9th grade girls
Date and Time: June 18-21, 2018   8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
$25, includes lunch + supplies.
Spots remaining: 23 (as of 4/19/18)
ABC CREATE Priority Registration Deadline: May 1st

Teacher STEAM Camp for educators who want to feel more comfortable integrating STEAM
Date and Time: June 25-28, 2018   8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
FREE, includes lunch + supplies. ACT 48
Spots remaining: 46 (as of 4/19/18)
ABC CREATE Priority Registration Deadline: May 1st

Date and Time: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018   6 PM
Join Remake Learning and NEXT Pittsburgh for this FREE event.Ted Dintersmith, author of What School Could Be, co-Author of Most Likely to Succeed, and producer of the award-winning film Most Likely to Succeed is stopping by Pittsburgh in May!

Location: O’Reilly Theater (Pittsburgh Public Theater) at 612 Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh.

Date and Time: Wednesday, May 8th, 2018   8:30am - 3:30pm
Hummingbird + Micro:Bit Workshop
Join the team from BirdBrain and Allegheny Intermediate Unit to learn how to build and program with the Hummingbird and micro:bit together! We’ll use the MakeCode programming language to get hands-on, diving deep into the expanded features of these two tools used together!

Location: transformED WEST @ Montour HS 223 Clever Rd
McKees Rocks, 15136 United States

Date and Time: Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Remake Learning Days Kickoff Breakfast
Kick off Remake Learning Days with Intel and the Society for Science & the Public!
Location: David L. Lawrence Convention Center

ABC CREATE Schools Participating in Remake Learning Days

Check out the ABC CREATE Remake Learning Days events (at least 12 that we’ve discovered so far!)
 

Regional Summer PD opportunities including the Personalized Learning Leadership Conference

Date and Time: June 18-21, 2018   8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Girls' STEAM Camp
Overview: Recognizing the need for girls to explore and to develop a STEAM identity in order to persist against the current culture of underrepresentation, ABC CREATE in partnership with Plum Borough School District is hosting a Girls’ STEAM Camp for rising 6th – 9th grade girls.

Location: Plum Senior High School, 900 Elicker Road, Plum, PA 15239

Date and Time: DUE Friday, March 23, 2018,
The Great Remake Micro-Grants
Remake Learning works to ignite engaging, relevant, and equitable learning opportunities that help young people thrive in a time of remarkable change.
Overview: With catalytic grants of $2,500 and $7,500, we aim to support learning practices, projects, and environments that advance our common vision.
Sponsor: Remake Learning

Date and Time: April 6, 2018   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Youth Innovate PGH
Come Hang Out, Mess Around, and Geek Out!
Seeking Participants: Youth Showcase
Overview: In addition to organizations and initiatives engaging youth, the event is inviting schools to showcase youth created works...
Media, Music, Magazines, Maker stuff, whatever your students would be proud to share with others.

Planning Partners include: All Star Code, Alloy26, City of Pittsburgh, Office of Innovation and Performance, CoLab18, Games for Change, Google, Nova Place
Location: Nova Place on the North Side
100 S Commons Pittsburgh, PA 15212

 
Date and Time: Tue, Mar 6, 2018   8 AM - 3 PM
STEAM for ALL: ABC CREATE SHOWCASE 2018
Overview: Explore classroom integration of creative technologies. Glimpse emerging technologies and classroom pilots. Connect with colleagues. No registration fee. Lunch included.  ACT 48 eligible.
Location: Penn State New Kensington
3550 7th Street Road
New Kensington, PA 15068

Date and Time: Applications due Wed, Feb 28, 2018
History Quest
Developed with the Institute of Play in New York City, the Woodrow Wilson HistoryQuest Fellowship offers professional development for middle and high school American history teachers in CT, MA, NJ, NYC, and PA.The program aims to use the power of games, play, and digital tools to transform both teacher practice and student engagement.
Overview: HistoryQuest Fellows attend free of charge a five-day workshop during the week of July 22, 2018, in the Princeton, New Jersey area, including single-occupancy housing and meals, with expenses paid.
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson Foundation

Date and Time: DUE Friday, March 23, 2018,
The Great Remake Micro-Grants
Remake Learning works to ignite engaging, relevant, and equitable learning opportunities that help young people thrive in a time of remarkable change.
Overview: With catalytic grants of $2,500 and $7,500, we aim to support learning practices, projects, and environments that advance our common vision.
Sponsor: Remake Learning

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 5, 2018
Particularly seeking proposals for Showcase presentations that will demonstrate the following:

• Integrating STEAM into the classroom through use of creative technologies and/and or project-based learning
• Reflecting our focus of STEAM for All
• Highlighting key values of inclusivity, equity, empowerment, collaboration, authentic learning, and meaningful engagement.

Educators and/or students from all grade levels and subject areas are encouraged to submit proposals.  Any student presentations need to be submitted with a faculty sponsor.

Presentations should be 30 – 40 minutes with time for questions included.  Sessions are 45 minutes.

Date and Time: Wed, Jan 17, 2018, 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST
"We the People - Math Literacy For All Alliance"
A workshop with Maisha Moses
Executive Director, The Young People's Project
Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Newell Simon Hall
Overview: Learn about The Young People's Project, it's background including The Algebra Project, and the Flagway™ Games as an example of a bottom up organizing approach to math literacy. The YPP and the Algebra Project create a cultural context in which mathematics emerges naturally from students’ experience by creating mathematically rich games and experiences. Light Dinner Provided.
SPACE IS LIMITED

Date and Time: Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Racism, Recovery, and Social Justice Symposium - Live Webinar
Overview:
1-1:50 PM - Framing conversation
2-2:50 PM -Stocktaking and sensemaking of racist incidents on campus
3-3:50 PM – Self-care and healing in periods of racial stress and recovery from racial battle fatigue
4-4:50 PM – Collective impact and coalition-building for racial justice
Location: Penn State New Kensington - OPEN to ABC CREATE districts

Deadline: Fri, Jan 19, 2018
Submit Your Remake Learning Days Event
You're invited to participate in the region's largest open house for hands-on learning, May 17 - 25, 2018. Submit your event to get in on the fun!
Overview: Remake Learning Days is back May 17-25, 2018 bringing hands-on, engaging, and relevant learning experiences to youth and families in neighborhoods across southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Date and Time: Wed, Jan 24, 2018, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST
ABC CREATE GigaPan Workshop
A workshop with Lou Karas
Director, Center for Arts and Education, West Liberty University
Location: Franklin Regional Middle School
Overview: Appropriate for new or wanna-be GigaPan users as well as for those who want to enhance their use of GigaPan images or technology in their classrooms or with cross-district projects. Lunch provided.

Date and Time: February 1, 2018  8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Hummingbird Robotics Advanced Topics: Construct an Autonomous Vehicle
With BirdBrain Technology's Matt Chilbert
Location: TransformED West at Montour High School
Overview: Design, build and program an autonomous vehicle with the Hummingbird Robotics Kit! Use recyclable material to construct a vehicle that will respond to light and shadows and avoid obstacles. This workshop is for educators who already use the Hummingbird or have attended a Hummingbird workshop in the past. Participants will use Ardublock and Arduino programming in the workshop. No experience with either Ardublock or Arduino is necessary prior to this workshop. FYI - There is a cost to attend this session (varying between $99 - $799) depending on whether you will need to purchase a Robotics Kit and on the number of participants with you.

Over 200 middle school girls attended the first ever ABC CREATE Girls' STEM Day on Tuesday November 21, 2018. STEM professionals from Toshiba American Medical Systems, Arconic, Matthew International, and IQ Inc. shared their perspective, experiences and insights about working in STEM.
The girls watched the movie Hidden Figures, an inspirational movie about three African-American female mathematicians who overcame hurdles and challenges to help NASA's space program in the 1960s when NASA (and the country) was still segregated. Finally, the attendees had time to explore many STEM topics and activities in an afternoon of "STEM Playground". The STEM Playground included stations such as drones, 3D printing, light-up circuits, Hour of Code, Coding in 3D, Virtual Reality, Spectroscopy, and even Oobleck.

The feedback from the participants was overwhelmingly positive. It was a great day of exploration and inspiration for these middle school girls. EVENT LISTING

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Kiski Area Upper Elementary student Sophia Peltier, 11, said she gets to do STEAM activities at her school, but enjoyed getting to try all of the different activities.

Peltier gave a thumbs-up and an “awesome” to the all-girls event.
Emily Marchlewski, 13, who attends Charles Houston Middle School in the Burrell School District, got to fly a drone.
“It's pretty fun,” she said. “I like how it can just hover without cords and just in the air.”
Marchlewski said she's interested in engineering, architecture and orthopedic medicine.
Plum High School science and math teacher Stephanie Reilly said she often sees girls take a secondary role in her classes while the boys take the lead.
She said having an all-girls event allows girls to experiment and learn on their own.
“We have pushed really hard to get females in our classes,” Reilly said.