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Lowe’s Home Improvement stores in Homestead and West Mifflin teamed up this August to create a vegetable garden in our Duquesne/West Mifflin Clubhouse to promote STEM and healthy lifestyles education. Duquesne / West Mifflin is one of the many areas of Pittsburgh that is known as a “Food Desert”. According to Bill Moyers Journal,  “the poor quality of the processed food available in many “food deserts” — areas in which residents lack access to a local supermarket — contribute to high rates of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Today, lack of access to nutritious food continues to be a significant problem [...]

Reporter Kristine Sorensen recently visited our PPG Artificial Intelligence Pathways Institute to learn about our new teen programs including our Teen Workforce Development Academy and Healthy Lifestyles Program. We serve around 1,000 teens every year and plan to double that this year. We're proud partners of the PA Smart Advancing STEM Initiative. Read more at Kidsburgh or from PPG about this amazing program. It doesn't end with summer though, up to 25 teens will be offered office-space to "incubate" their project and bring it to life while earning wages, being mentored by corporate IT partners, earn credentials by Carnegie Mellon University's [...]

We are so excited to be gearing up for our School Year programming! As we continue to build and offer high-quality programs, there are a few changes that we will be implementing beginning this school-year. We will continue to use the ACTIVE system for registration and payments. As we re-calibrate and reinvest in program enhancements and ensure high-quality staff, there will be a new membership structure: After-School Program: $40.00 a month Speciality Art and STEM Programs: $40.00 a month Sports Programs: Varies By Sport  For families with great financial need, please apply for our limited scholarships here. Our programming is one of the [...]

Youth baseball and softball is making a comeback in the City of Pittsburgh and surrounding communities, in part, due to the growth of our Pirates RBI (Reviving Baseball/Softball in Inner Cities) program managed by Boys & Girls Clubs of Western PA, with the financial support from the Pittsburgh Pirates.  For the 2019 season, the Pirates RBI program developed an exciting partnership with the City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Parks and Recreation to create the first Pirates RBI Citisports League with 60 teams, providing quality baseball and softball programming for approximately 1,000 youth.  The Pirates RBI program formed three tournament teams:  Junior baseball (ages [...]

The Office of Population Affairs of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the award of $13,566,000 for 29 grants to organizations for Replication of Programs Proven Effective through Rigorous Evaluation to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy, Behavioral Risk Factors Underlying Teenage Pregnancy, or Other Associated Risk Factors (Tier 1) – Phase I. The grants start on July 15, 2019 for a two-year project period. According to HHS, funded grantees will replicate programs that have been proven effective through rigorous evaluation to reduce teenage pregnancy, behavioral risk factors underlying teenage pregnancy, or other associated risk factors. Grantees will identify how [...]

This summer kids across Pittsburgh are attending our STEAM Camps offered at three of our Clubhouses. In Carnegie kids are becoming inventors at our STEM Invention Camp and designing cool summer clothes in our Fashion Design and Sewing Camp. In Lawrenceville kids are exploring VEX Robotics and will have the chance to join our FLL or VEX teams this fall. In a few weeks we are excited to launch our new Teen STEM Camp, the PPG "Artificial Intelligence Pathways Institute & Teen Accelerator." STEAM is short for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math and an important part of our programming. We [...]

On July 2nd we had a special visit from Congressman Conor Lamb as part of his summer education tour. Club Teens even participated in a "Town Hall" forum with Congressman Lamb! After hearing about our Carnegie Clubhouse and learning about our summer/after-school programs, Teen Workforce Development Academy and STEM Programs, Congressman Lamb toured the Clubhouse, participated in a STEM activity with school-age kids and then spent 90 minutes with our teens. He asked them questions about everything from their favorite movie to bullying in schools and told them about how government works; he asked them to all vote when they turn [...]

This summer, BGCWPA was selected to lead the Learn & Earn program for 40 teens from across the county as part of Partner4Work's Learn and earn Program. Learn & Earn is a six-week summer employment program for teens and young adults ages 14-21 in the Pittsburgh region. Participants have the opportunity to earn money, gain valuable work experience, and develop soft skills to help them become college and career ready.  Half of the youth placed at our 7 Club Locations are members of Boys & Girls Clubs and participate in our Workforce Development and Post-Secondary planning programs.     The teens completed a [...]

What happens when you pair caring volunteers with local kids and challenge them to assemble bikes? United Way's Build-A-Bike! Last week, 400 volunteers joined United Way and more than 150 local kids at Heinz Field for the sixth annual #BuildABikePgh. Each child left that day with new skills in teamwork, communication and - for many of them - their first bike they can enjoy all summer long. Thank you to everyone who made this day a success, especially the sponsors, UPMC and Northwest Bank! We are thankful for wonderful partners like United Way and the many wonderful smiles on our kids' [...]

This year we had more support than ever for our summer day camp at our 42nd Nellie King Golf Classic held at the Sewickey Heights Golf Club on June 3rd. The event was sponsored by several companies with the title sponsor being Baierl Subaru. A special thank you to our honorary chairman, Mike Tomczak, master of ceremonies Lanny Frattare and golf committee members for their leadership and continued support. With the funds raised at the Nellie King Golf Classic we are able to offer more families scholarships to attend our summer day camp! Check out the photos from the day!    [...]