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Pittsburgh, USA

Spotlight 2019

Educators in the Pittsburgh region are taking risks, reaching higher, and pushing the limits of learning. Find out what we learned from taking a closer look at the education innovations flourishing in the "steel city" in 2019. This Spotlight broke the mold—we couldn't settle on just 10 innovations to highlight, so here you'll find 12 innovations that are impactful in their local context and scalable for education contexts around the world.

Together with The Grable Foundation & Remake Learning

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Innovations

Explore education innovations recognized by HundrED as well as innovations from shared by the education community across the world.

Summer Dreamers Academy

A no-cost, premier summer learning experience providing the academic benefit of summer school along with the fun of summer camp. Through a mix of high-quality, engaging instruction by certified teache

Pittsburgh, United States

Science Student Mentoring

Hillman Academy

Each summer, high school students perform authentic research alongside world-renowned scientists at the Hillman Cancer Center and throughout the University of Pittsburgh. By engaging students in a rig

Pittsburgh, United States

When two first-grade girls came to their teacher with the idea to start a business that donates profits to charity, a maker-learning program became an incubator for young entrepreneurs. When the girls

Ohio Township, United States

Professional Development

transformED offers radically relevant professional learning experiences that emphasize hands-on practice with new ideas, skills, and tools, together with a technology lending library, grant funding, a

Pittsburgh, United States

Design Thinking Personalized Learning

This research-based learning space is a permanent exhibit inside the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. MAKESHOP is a drop-in environment where children and families make, play, and design using “real s

Pittsburgh, United States