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Teams from Boyce and Fort Couch middle schools placed first in their respective divisions at the regional STEM Design Challenge held March 29 at the Commonwealth Charter Academy in Homestead.The team of Boyce Middle School fifth-graders Michael Clarke, Sarah Staub, Brayden Wong, and Rebecca ...

The Citizen Science Lab, a nonprofit organization that provides STEM education to underserved youth in the Pittsburgh region, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Eden Hall Foundation to enhance its SeaPerch program.SeaPerch provides middle and high school students with the opportunity to ...

Camp Invention returns to Bethel Park

If you don’t know about him already, meet James Edward Maceo West.Students attending Camp Invention had the opportunity to do so, in a way, by listening to a recording by the developer of the technology used in 90% of all microphones built today.The youngsters heard the message from West, who ...

A team of Fort Couch Middle School students placed first in the sixth-through-eighth-grade division at the regional STEM Design Challenge March 26.Eighth-graders Carlee Santel, Tyler McClintock-Comeaux, Eitan Schwartz and Yuhong Shi now qualify to compete in the state-level competitionSponsored ...

Plenty of high school graduates aren’t so sure exactly what they want to study as they head to college.That’s not the case for Mary Albert.“I love the water and I love animals,” the 2020 Peters Township High School graduate said. “So I kind of just combined the two.”The upshot is ...

A team of four seventh-graders from Fort Couch Middle School in Upper St. Clair placed first in the sixth- through eighth-grade division at the regional STEM Design Challenge March 3 at Duquesne University.Ryan Buonomo, Max Biedrzycki, Ben Seewald and Ryan Popp qualified to compete at the ...