April 24, 2014

Mentoring Partnership: Future Focus

The Mentoring Partnership hosted its Future Focus: Take Your Mentee to Career Day conference on April 24, 2014. Mentees were given the tools and knowledge to help them prepare now for their future aspirations. Workshops and interactive activities helped students learn more about different careers and how they can begin to work toward their goals today.

April 24, 2014

Pittsburgh Spring Hill K-5 Radio Club: Radio Kits!

Today in Radio Club we learned how to build a working radio out of a kit! Students broke into groups or worked on their own to follow instructions on building a working radio.

April 23, 2014

The ZONE: Virtual DJ-ing 101

Students at The ZONE were introduced to the audio mixing software, Virtual DJ Pro, with which they used to alter various Pop and Disney songs, leaving their own personal mark on the likes of Frozen’s “Let It Go,” Arrested Development’s “Tennessee” and The Clash’s “I Fought the Law.”

April 3, 2014

Pittsburgh Spring Hill K-5 Radio Club: Spring Poems

Students in Radio Club at Pittsburgh Spring Hill K-5 wrote and recorded these acrostic poems about spring. First we had a discussion about what makes an acrostic poem (a poem in which the first letter of each line in the text spells out a word or a message – in this case, SPRING). Then, everyone wrote their poems and drew pictures to accompany them!

April 2, 2014

The ZONE: When I Grow Up and Other Stories

The ZONE radio clubbers wrote and recorded a quick story about what they want to be when they grow up. After recording we used a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) named Logic Pro to make beats along with their story recordings.