YES: Poetry Inspired by Historical Architecture
From 3/30/13: Pittsburgh Banksville K-5 students Jaiman White (11), Daisy Tappe (10), and Cristal Flores (10) discuss and share art and poetry inspired by Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation explorations of architectural spaces in Squirrel Hill, the South Side and Banksville
YES: Adele Grabowski
From 3/30/13: Vocalist and Carnegie Mellon student Adele Grabowski, one of the winners of the 2012-2013 Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra Young Artist Competition
Big Brother Jon Arvay and Little Brother James
From 3/23/13: Big Brother Jon Arvay and Little Brother James along with BBBS staff member Sandra Eritano during our monthly segment with Big Brothers Big Sisters
YES: Fab 40 Recipient Marna Owens
From 3/23/13: 16-year old Marna Owens, a radio host at Hip-Hop on L.O.C.K., student at Pittsburgh CAPA, and youngest person to receive a New Pittsburgh Courier’s Fab 40 Award
Environmental Charter School at Frick Park Second Grade Persuasive Writing Project
Between March 7th and March 20th, SLB worked with 72 second graders at The Environmental Charter School at Frick Park as we used the tools of radio broadcasting to sharpen self-expression and persuasive writing. The pages below contain links to work written and recorded by each of the three second-grade classes. Our thanks to Shannon Shupak, Carly Catello, Joseph Burke and Nikole Sheaffer (Environmental Charter School) for the privilege of working with their students and Matt Luskey (Western Pa. Writing Project) for his support of this project.