The Readiness Institute team welcomed high schoolers from Laurel Highlands, Uniontown, Geibel Catholic, and Brownsville alongside undergraduate students from Penn State Fayette to talk about the power of entrepreneurship in reshaping our world for the better.
Congratulations to Josiah Gilliam and Delvina Morrow for their well-deserved recognition as the recipients of the 2023 Readiness Institute Awards.
As many of the learners from our Readiness Institute Summer Program know, our connection doesn’t just end after the summer. We continue to stay in touch with learners when they go back for their senior year, after they graduate high school, and beyond. We’ve been checking in with some of the young adults who were a part of program and have now graduated high school and are on to their next steps of adulthood.
In late March, the Readiness Institute team was joined by the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative (HGHREI) at Penn State to host an informative and inspiring workshop for educators about “Framing Difficult Issues to Support K-12 Classroom Discussion.”
Readiness Institute at Penn State team members were honored to serve as a United States host site for four representatives from the Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan.
As many of the learners from our Readiness Institute Summer Program know, our connection doesn’t just end after the summer. We continue to stay in touch with learners when they go back for their senior year, after they graduate high school, and beyond. We’ve been checking in with some of the young adults who were a part of program and have now graduated high school and are on to their next steps of adulthood.
Learn more about Remake Learning Days (RLD) across Pennsylvania. Any Penn State event created for K-12 students/families taking place between April 20 and May 22, 2024 can become an RLD event; learn how easy it is to become part of the RLD festival and share your event across the Commonwealth.
As many of the learners from our Readiness Institute Summer Program know, our connection doesn’t just end after the summer. We continue to stay in touch with learners when they go back for their senior year, after they graduate high school, and beyond. We’ve been checking in with some of the young adults who were a part of program and have now graduated high school and are on to their next steps of adulthood.
Jeremy Uhrich is a seventh-grade reading teacher at Huntingdon Area Middle School in the Huntingdon Area School District and has been teaching for more than 20 years.
Max Besong is a physics, math, and computer science teacher in the Bald Eagle Area School District with a passion for giving high school students the opportunity for hands-on experience in scientific research techniques and processes.