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MEDIA ADVISORY
Photo Opportunity for PBS KIDS Library Corner Opening in Homestead

WQED PITTSBURGH IS CALLING ALL KIDS FOR ANNUAL WRITERS CONTEST
PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest encourages children to create original stories and illustrations

Inventive Engineering Program Design Lives Here Continues in 2012

WQED Announces iQ: smartparent A New Way for Parents to Connect with 21st Century Kids

WQED Invests in Area Teachers and Education Innovation
NOVA Chemicals Provides Support to WQED's iQ: smartmedia initiative

WQED Pittsburgh Workshops Encourage Local Students to Participate in National STEM Video Game Challenge
WQED Workshops in conjunction with The 2012 Global Game Jam in Pittsburgh will prepare students and educators to build original games in support of STEM learning

WQED PITTSBURGH RECEIVES $5,000 GRANT FROM THE UPS FOUNDATION FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE TO BENEFIT AT-RISK CHILDREN IN SIX COUNTIES
Donate school supplies December 6 - 9, 2011 from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and meet characters from the Super Why! Series

PBS KIDS PROGRAMS TOP CHARTS, 125 NEW EPISODES TO AIR ON WQED-TV THIS YEAR

DINOSAUR TRAIN HEADS TO THE "BIG CITY" ON PBS KIDS, WQED AND CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY HOST PREMIERE PARTY

2011 press releases in Education


WALMART, SESAME STREET AND WQED HOLD COMMUNITY SCREENING EVENT AT PHIPPS CONSERVATORY
Local Event on October 14 Provides Families Opportunity to Watch Muppet Special Dealing with Hunger in America And Receive Free Resources

WQED MULTIMEDIA AND PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM LEAD NATION WITH EDUCATION PROGRAM LINKING PBS CONTENT WITH LOCAL ZOO EXHIBITS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PBS KIDS GO!

WQED AND PBS LearningMedia LAUNCH NEW DIGITAL EDUCATION SERVICE WITH WORLD-CLASS CONTENT FROM PUBLIC MEDIA AND ITS PARTNERS
Free Innovative Classroom-Ready Media Available to Every Teacher and Student Across Southwest Pennsylvania

WQED PITTSBURGH NAMES YOUNG AUTHORS AS LOCAL WINNERS OF THE PBS KIDS GO! WRITERS CONTEST WITH SUPPORT FROM EQT CORPORATION
Local Competition Fosters Reading, Writing and Creativity

DR. SEUSS-INSPIRED ACTIVITIES PRESENTED BY WQED AT THE THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL

SUPER TEACHERS NAMED IN WQED/AIU3 PARTNERSHIP

WQED PITTSBURGH EXTENDS THE PBS KIDS GO! WRITERS CONTEST
Local Contest Supported by EQT Corporation

WQED PITTSBURGH PRESENTS THE PBS KIDS GO! WRITERS CONTEST WITH SUPPORT FROM EQT CORPORATION
Local Contest Part of Effort to Mobilize Children Across America to Write and Illustrate Their Own Stories

2010 press releases in Education


HIGHMARK CARING PLACE HELPS THOSE DEALING WITH GRIEF DURING THE HOLIDAYS
WQED Multimedia Provides Additional Support to Help Grieving Children

THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT HOLIDAY CHEER
WQED Pittsburgh brings The Cat in the Hat to Children's Hospital

CMU and WQED Partner on Cybersecurity Outreach Programs
Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute (INI) and WQED Multimedia are collaborating to create and disseminate educational outreach programs and materials about cybersecurity.

NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED EDUCATOR JENNIFER ERNISSE STANCIL JOINS WQED MULTIMEDIA AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
New Educational Vision and Direction Announced for Organization

WQED AND PITTSBURGH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM LAUNCH SOCIAL NETWORKING PARTNERSHIP AROUND CHILDREN'S LITERARY CHARACTER--CURIOUS GEORGE--AND HOW TO GET CURIOUS FOR A LIFETIME

DESIGN LIVES HERE
A Design Squad Event Presented by WQED Multimedia and the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania (ESWP)

WQED PITTSBURGH NAMES 18 YOUNG AUTHORS AS LOCAL WINNERS OF THE EQT CORPORATION PRESENTS: PBS KIDS GO! WRITERS CONTEST
Annual Competition Fosters Reading, Writing, Creativity; Local Winners Advance to National Finals

WQED EXTENDS THE EQT CORPORATION PRESENTS: PBS KIDS GO! YOUNG WRITERS CONTEST DEADLINE

EQT CORPORATION PRESENTS: THE PBS KIDS GO!(R) WRITERS CONTEST WITH WQED PITTSBURGH
Local Contest part of effort to mobolize children across America to write and illustrate their own stories

2009 press releases in Education


Safeco Insurance and Trimbur Insurance Agency Name Waldron 2009 Community Hero
Wagner Family Charities receives $15,000 donation in Waldron's honor

Reading Rainbow Winners Announced
Winners of the 15th Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest have been announced by WQED and West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

WQED's Queen of Hearts to visit Steel Valley School District
WQED's Queen of Hearts - a costume character from WQED' Stories Start Action program who brings stories to life - will appear at Franklin Primary School, 220 E. Oliver Road in Munhall on Tuesday, May 26 from 9:30 to 11am.

ROYAL STORYTELLER FOR WQED LITERACY PROGRAM TO VISIT ARMSTRONG DISTRICT SCHOOL
Lenape Elementary School in Ford City will host WQED’s storyteller The Queen of Hearts for a 10 a.m. program on Friday, May 1 for its first grade students.

Queen of Hearts at Edgewood Primary School
WQED's Queen of Hearts makes a personal appearance in Kindergarten class.

Reading Rainbow Contest
Students in grades kindergarten through third are invited to write and illustrate original storybooks and enter them in the 15th Annual Reading Rainbow & Illustrators Contest.