Education
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Growing Success With The 15th Annual Girls Exploring Technology Conference
The 15th Annual Girls Exploring Tomorrow’s Technology. (GETT) conference held in Malvern, PA, on March 21, 2015, was a great success this year attracting its biggest attendance to date with more than 530 students attending. The conference focused on Science, Technology, Engineering Art and Math (STEAM) presented by female role models, attracted visitors and participants from…
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Judith Lee: It Takes A Village
By Judith Lee I recently had a fantastic opportunity to participate in a roundtable for business students at Penn State’s Brandywine Campus. Let me first give a shoutout to PSU Professor Christina Olear and Chester County SCORE for organizing the event. A couple of dozen students attended on their own time, which by itself is…
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The House of Original Dreams Expands In Exton With New Facility, More Outreach
A new facility and logo are helping more youth get a new lease on life at The HOOD: A Partnership for Youth Employment, and an open house celebration of the one-stop shop for access to further education and training, career development and job opportunities in Exton is coming Thursday, April 9. “Our organization is forever growing…
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TEDx to Host 2nd Annual West Chester Event
TEDx will be holding its second annual event in West Chester on May 21, 2015, from 6:30-9:00 pm at the MainStage Theater of West Chester University’s EO Bull Center for the Arts. TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading. The event, titled “What It’s Worth” focuses on the concept of value and will…
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SkillsUSA Contest Puts Students From TCHS On The Spot — And In The Spotlight
From automotive brake testing to a firefighting ladder challenge, public speaking and a medical terminology exam, 48 students from Chester County’s Technical College High School recently put their learning to the test and emerged as medal winners. “Participation in SkillsUSA empowers its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens,” Advisor Jim Brunken…
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Accolades Continue To Sprout For Garden Project At Charles F. Patton Middle School
The sun is far from setting on a local middle school garden project that has taken on fairy tale proportions. “‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ has nothing on the Patton Project Gardens,” a Chadds Ford Live feature article stated. Teachers at Kennett Square’s Charles F. Patton Middle School “combined a what-if mentality with a can-do spirit” to cultivate…
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Helicopter Museum To Host First Science Expo For Young Women
The American Helicopter Museum and Education Center will host its first annual Girls’ Science Expo from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 28 at the museum, 1220 American Blvd., West Chester. The expo is being presented in conjunction with the museum’s Women in Aerospace and Technology Program and will offer participants in grades 3 through…
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Penn State Great Valley Open House Thursday
For more information and to register for the event, visit Penn State Great Valley’s home page here.
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Center For Arts & Technology Alumnus Shares Story With TCHS Students
Because of the technical skills learned at the Brandywine campus of the Center for Arts & Technology as well as Universal Technical Institute, Kyle Miller’s meandering career path has finally landed him at an unexpectedly perfect job fit, and he recently shared his success story with Brandywine’s Technical College High School students. The Technical College High School…
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Entrepreneurs Invited To Submit Business Ideas In WCU Competition
West Chester University is welcoming students and others with big business ideas to present their dreams during the third annual WCU Business Idea Competition. The event is co-hosted by the Dr. Edwin Cottrell Entrepreneurial Leadership Center and the Keiretsu Forum Mid-Atlantic. The deadline to present innovative ideas for new products, services or technology is March…
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Quest For Senior-Friendly Cities Sends West Chester On 3-Year Project
Older adults, civic and business leaders, West Chester University students and filmmakers are embarking on a three-year initiative to explore and promote West Chester as one of America’s prime “Age-Friendly” communities. Launched by the World Health Organization’s designation of the borough as an Age Friendly Community, the project aims to “create a global exchange on how to…
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Schramm CEO, Wife Donate $1.9 Million To Bloomsburg University
Ed Breiner, retired president and CEO of Schramm, Inc. in West Chester, and his wife Julianne, donated $1.9 million to Bloomsburg University to establish the university’s first endowed professorship in support of an exceptional teacher, mentor and leader. The couple are 1977 Bloomsburg graduates. The gift will establish a Department of Nursing senior professorship. Long-time…
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Chamber, DA Offer Reward For Lincoln Spray-Painter
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan and the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry have offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the individual or individuals who spray-painted a racial slur at the entrance to Lincoln University. Lincoln University is located in the rolling hills of southern Chester County. Lincoln…
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Vertex Partners With Penn State’s College Of Information Sciences And Technology
Vertex Inc., of Berwyn is now a corporate associate at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. Through the partnership, Vertex will sponsor high-level student teams focused on finding solutions to real-world problems and design concepts applicable to some of the emerging trends impacting tax technology. The Corporate Associates Program gives…
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Registration for Girls Exploring Tomorrow’s Technology (GETT) Conference Begins Tomorrow
The Chester County Economic Development council has announced that registration for the Girls Exploring Tomorrow’s Technology (GETT) conference will begin tomorrow, February 14. Young women in grades 6-12 interested in attending the free event may sign up here. The conference kicks off Saturday, March 21 at Great Valley High School. The annual conference encourages young women to…
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Did You Know?
In November of 2014, Downingtown’s STEM Academy topped the list of top public high school in Pennsylvania for the second year in a row. According to the Daily Local News: “The profiles cover 2,947 public schools, including all charter schools. The profiles measures academic achievement, promotion and graduation rates, academic growth and how well a…
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QR Pharma, Rockefeller University Research Drug For Huntington’s Disease
QR Pharma, Inc. of Berwyn is collaborating with The Rockefeller University to develop a treatment for Huntington’s disease. The collaboration will focus on preclinical research involving QR’s lead drug candidate, Posiphen®. Investigators at Rockefeller will conduct experiments in stem cell culture models of HD to determine if Posiphen lowers the levels of toxic protein in…
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Six Chester County High Schools Make State’s Top 50 SAT Scores Honor Role
Six Chester County high schools made the list of Pennsylvania’s top 50 high schools as ranked by 2014 SAT scores. The county high school making the grade include: #2 Connestoga High School in the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District #4 Downingtown STEM Academy in the Downingtown School District #8 Unionville High School in the Unionville – Chadds…
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