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A Drexel student demonstrates how 3D printing can be used to make shoes
Education

Drexel lab uses animation, 3D printers, music to teach STEM disciplines

Students learn animation, 3D printing and making music at Drexel lab dedicated to integrating sciences and the arts.

3 months ago

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Bennetts Valley Elementary School
Education
Spotlight PA

These 50 Pa. school districts are getting extra money because of their high tax burdens

The state wants school districts to use $32 million from this year’s Pennsylvania budget to lower the tax burden for local residents.

10 months ago

A teacher looks at a students' work on the desk in front of her.
Community

A program that’s helped launch nearly 800 Delaware entrepreneurs gets financial boost

West End Neighborhood House’s Launcher program is getting $300,000 to add classes and expand entrepreneurship, job creation, and economic growth.

2 years ago

Magali Vicente-Ortega and her three children pose for a photo.
Community

At this Southern Delaware elementary school, infants and toddlers are encouraged to speak in their native Spanish

The six-week Léemelo program has seen success in a school where the majority of students speak Spanish.

2 years ago

Breana Cooper on watch from the lifeguard stand
Community

Lifeguards wanted: Philly waiving application, certification fees for young candidates

Philadelphia could not open all of its pools last summer due to a lifeguard shortage. The city hopes to avoid that fate this year.

2 years ago

A person stands at a podium.
Community

La Plaza Delaware hopes to bridge the gap with its Latino Leadership training program

By embracing the Latino Leadership training program, La Plaza Delaware aims to erase the underrepresentation of Latinos in leadership.

3 years ago

Tony Watlington Sr. sits at a table
Radio Times
Education

Back to school with Philly’s new superintendent

Philadelphia has a new school leader for the first time in a decade. Superintendent Dr. Tony Watlington on the challenges facing kids and teachers in the district this year.

Air Date: August 25, 2022 10:00 am

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A person speaks and gestures at the front of a room, where students are sitting before blank easels.
Community

‘Safe place’: Art classes foster healing for Delaware cancer patients, English learners and people living with trauma

The Healing Through the Arts initiative began in 2017 with painting and drawing sessions for people with cancer.

3 years ago

Melissa Clouser, owner of Cut & Sew, edges a quilt top she made with students to be donated to a refugee family. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Mount Airy’s newest shop teaches beginners to sew and quilt on a budget

Whether you’re experienced, or want to learn how to sew and quilt, the owner’s passion for fabric has her planning opportunities for adults and children.

3 years ago

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Eric Holte (left) learns to fix his bike with volunteer Michael Benko
PlanPhilly
Community

‘Forget YouTube,’ this Philly shop teaches cyclists how to repair their own bikes

West Philly’s Neighborhood Bike Works teaches cyclists how to fix up their own bike through a DIY repair program called Bike Church.

3 years ago

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The inaugural exhibition, ''Making Place Matter,'' opens on April 23. It will feature this wall installation of plates by Molly Hatch, inspired by a painting of rowers on the Schuylkill River, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

The Clay Studio opens new building in Kensington, for Kensington

The purpose-built ceramics workshop and community space is designed with its neighbors in mind.

3 years ago

Adrienne Hamilton and her son, Bowie, at their home in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Education

A year without play: Parents and experts worry about loss of social skills during pandemic

In-person school provided kids with regular, organic social exposure. What happens after a year when that disappeared?

4 years ago

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Tchin, an internationally showcased jewelry maker who lives in New Jersey, speaks with visitors at the We Are the Seeds festival (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Native American artists offer hope and craft in online workshops

We Are The Seeds, based in Philadelphia, is asking Native American artists from around the country to teach digital workshops open to the public.

4 years ago

Campers at Al-Bustan percussion camp.
Community

Al-Bustan camp immerses Philly kids in Arabic language, culture and science

At the Al-Bustan Camp, a cultural summer camp held at St. Peter's School in Society Hill, children are learning about the Arabic language, music, history and science.

6 years ago

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Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
The Why
Education

Why being a first-generation college student is uniquely hard

Your parents are still the biggest indicator of how successful you'll become.

Air Date: May 6, 2019

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