Author: Christine

This summer, we set out to better understand how Neighborhood North’s programs are meeting the needs of our community, and what children and families need as we grow. Led by […]

We were thrilled to officially unveil our new Energy Discovery Zone, Solar Button Wall, and all-electric Mobile Maker Lab this month, celebrating alongside Mayor Kenya Johns, Jack Manning, representatives from […]

We asked our staff to report on the outcomes of the Trails Summer Camp. What they came up with was a list of everything they played, built, explored, and imagined […]

This spring, we brought poetry, public art, and placemaking together through the Rain Poetry Project, made possible by an America250 Beaver County Grant. Neighborhood North led this initiative in Beaver […]

Neighborhood North Museum of Play awarded grant to secure a digital maker space  BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — Neighborhood North Museum of Play was recently awarded $50,000 to create a digital […]

A Beaver County first: Neighborhood North Museum of Play to anchor arts-integrated programming  BEAVER FALLS, Pa. — You don’t have to travel all the way to Pittsburgh to find art. […]

Neighborhood North is part of the Pittsburgh Peer Learning Collaborative, a cohort of nine organizations in Pittsburgh focused on boosting the early learning and brain development of children from birth through age five. […]

“Maker education offers a transformational approach to teaching and learning that attends to the real and relevant needs of learners and humans. It is an approach that positions agency and student […]

In the Spring of 2021, Neighborhood North was invited to participate in a study being conducted by the RAND Corporation’s Pittsburgh office and the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing […]

A perk of being the parent of college-aged children means getting to visit the fun places they decide to study!  One of my twins has recently begun a doctoral program […]