Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Sense of Place Construction Site

The Sense of Place Learning group is hard at work piecing together their insect habitat boxes. They are currently constructing the wood frame which will hold the scavenged plants and other natural objects they have already collected.








Monday, November 24, 2014

Visit to SLB Studios

The Saturday Light Brigade boys took a trip to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh recently to visit a functioning radio station recording studio. While there they recorded a Thanksgiving themed message for IQ Kids Radio and gained hands on experience in radio production.






Thursday, November 13, 2014

Zulama Happenings

The Zulama Evolution of Gaming group has been busy exploring a wide variety of games and their origins recently. Using their creativity, they have modified historical games like Checkers, Tic-Tac-Toe and Farkle.


Most recently they have explored the digital gaming world through a Voxel based game called VOXATRON.  Completely customizable worlds are being created by this group to challenge even the most confident of gamers here at Wilkinsburg.







S.L.B. Audio Stories

The Tiger's Saturday Light Brigade Team have been hard at work producing original audio fiction for the past holiday season. Check out their "A Day in the Life of a Monster" series staring Big Foot, Lock Ness, and much more!





Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Frick Park Episode II





Making Plaster Masks with Ms. Jennifer

Ms. Jennifer, our resident Art Therapist from Art Expression stopped by recently to show our students the fun (and messy!) process for creating plaster masks.  There are some priceless photos here...