YWCA GP in Action - April 2026
Spring is here and with the new season comes a busy time of year for our organization. Take a look at what’s been happening across YWCA GP: check out the latest moments, milestones, and stories shaping our work.
Many Hands Make Light Work
A huge thank you is in order for our volunteers who recently helped us sort, organize, and assemble hundreds of STEM kits for our STEM Impact program. Each kit has a total of eight individual lessons on biology, biodiversity, and bioluminescence, providing hours of hands-on learning for students in programs run by our community partners across the region. Thank you volunteers!
From Equity to Engineering
Through STEM Impact, over 100 students in programs run by our community partners recently learned about racial justice, inclusivity, engineering, and STEM. Our racial justice unit taught lessons such as fairness compared to true equality and the value of teamwork, while our engineering unit included lessons on chromatography, paper algorithms, edible DNA, and testing acids and bases.
Car Creations
Middle School (MS) PATHmakers have been working with littleBits Invention Kits on STEAM skills—such as creativity, problem solving, and engineering design—through screen-free, engaging electronic building blocks called Bits. With different colored Bits for power, input, and output, students are learning the basics of circuitry to design and create their own inventions. Recently, MS PATHmakers were asked to build a car and engage with social-emotional lessons while utilizing the Bits.
A Just Films Milestone
Just Films, a series of social justice films that educate, inspire, and challenge, wrapped up its tenth season at Point Park University on March 23 with a screening of the Emmy-award winning Patrice: The Movie and a panel on disability justice. We have enjoyed co-presenting Just Films with our partners for the past decade, and the series will be back in the fall for its eleventh season.