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Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy

Life of Learning
7:49 am
Tue April 29, 2014

From Biology To Music, Bringing Science And Technology To Every Classroom
Connor Cain, a sixth grader at Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy, uses the Mac-based GarageBand app to make a melody in a music class.
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Dream. Discover. Design.

That’s the motto of Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy in Oakland, a public magnet school focused on the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Essentially, the entire middle and high school shines a spotlight on innovation.

“The whole idea is tinkering, so we play, we tinker, we fail, we figure out what we did wrong, and we work again,” said Ann Gollapudi, who teaches physics and computer science at SciTech.

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