Join us for Remake Learning Days, a celebration of innovative learning! At this festival, you can make, code, play and tinker at many learning spaces like schools, libraries, museums, outdoor play spaces, and more. Between May 1-23, 2025, there will be many free events across southwestern PA, including 23 events in Penn Hills. Learn more about these great events in your own backyard:
May 1, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
We invite you to learn a variety of maker technologies from circuitry to 3D art together at the library in our weekly Make Together Lab where creativity and innovation rule!
May 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EST)
This is an interactive, sports-inspired literacy event where kids combine reading with physical activity. At each station, they complete both a literacy challenge and a sports-based activity before advancing to the next station. At the end, every participant gets a free book.
Squonking @ Penn Hills Library
May 5, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (EST)
Join Squonk as we enter the world of sound effects!
Make-n-Take: Take Apart Day (Remake Learning)
May 6, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm (EST)
We'll take apart a variety of different, broken technology and explore what's inside and how they work.
Wear Your Creativity: Fashion for All Abilities
May 7, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm (EST)
"Wear Your Creativity: Fashion for All Abilities" is an inclusive, hands-on event where students of all abilities design and create custom hats, shirts, and hoodies using a laser engraver, screen printer, and embroidery machine to express their unique styles.
May 7, 2025 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm (EST)
Get your hands dirty with this "Terrarium Takeover" K-4 program. Learn how plants and terrariums work, decorate a pocket of plant for your chosen animal, fairy or other creature, and take home a second upcycled 2-liter DIY terrarium!
May 8, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
Students will present a booth-style showcase to parents and families in which they present projects that they have completed in class or create projects in real time using the skills they have learned.
Bilingual Storytime: A Celebration of Tamil
May 8, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (EST)
Come celebrate and learn about the Tamil culture and Pongal holiday through a bilingual story time event including dancing, art, crafts, and fun!
Discover Scuba Penn Hills: Exploring Marine Science & STEM Careers
May 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (EST)
Dive into marine science with our Discover Scuba experience! Teens (14-18) will explore the science of scuba diving, learn about marine careers, & discover STEM fields like oceanography & underwater robotics. Sign up to try scuba & explore exciting careers beneath the waves!
Wilkinsburg School District STEAM Night
May 21, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (EST)
Join us for an evening of fun STEAM activities, displays of projects students have worked on throughout the year, and presentations from our art and foreign language departments.
May 22, 2025 @ 3:05 pm - 4:30 pm (EST)
Calling all Verner students who like fun Math, Engineering and Coding activities!
2025 GirlGov Symposium: Around the Tables
May 1, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (EST)
An interactive and student-led tabling event focused on centering youth voice and intersectionality. The event will highlight community issues such as civic engagement, environmental justice, reproductive and women’s rights, and gun violence.
May 1, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 6:30 pm (EST)
The BHMS Science Olympiad is an exciting, hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) event designed to engage scholars in problem-solving, critical thinking, and teamwork.
Remake Learning Day: Solar Race Car
May 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
A tech kit from Brown Dog Gadgets teaches kids about engineering, science, and art. Let’s have some fast-paced fun by building your own solar race car.
Kids Club – LEGO Building Challenge
May 6, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (EST)
Use LEGOs to complete a building challenge in this program that will help childen build fine motor skills and develop their problem solving skills and ability to interpret instructions.
May 9, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
GROW WITH ME! Is an Annual Mother's Day Gardening Event to celebrate Moms. This FREE event includes all supplies and instructions for children ages 3 years and up.
REMAKE Learning Days: Warhol Art Making Event
May 10, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EST)
Come out to the Homewood Early Learning HUB & Family Center for an all-ages hands-on event. Families can silk screen, make souvenirs, and learn about Warhol’s work as part of the HUB & Family Center's Remake Learning Days event!
World Migratory Bird Day at Frick Environmental Center
May 10, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm (EST)
Join us at Frick Environmental Center to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day! We'll have multiple bird hikes (including accessible birding), family-friendly activities, story time, garden planting, and more. Come learn about how migratory birds are part of our Pittsburgh community!
Remake Learning Days at The Frick
May 17, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (EST)
Join us for a day filled with artmaking, history, movement, and conversation during Remake Learning at The Frick!
Reimagined Recycling Open House
May 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EST)
Join us at Reimagined Recycling's studio for an afternoon of turning single-use plastics into reusable items through craft and art making!
HCV Community Schools presents: Village Game Night
May 22, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm (EST)
Join us for Village Game Night, where fun meets learning through exciting games that build teamwork, problem-solving, and creativity for all ages!
May 23, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (EST)
Participants in the "throttle through stress and anxiety" program engage in focused, high-speed RC car driving through challenging courses to channel and release built-up tension.
Family Hike en el Bosque con La Escuelita Arcoiris
May 28, 2025 @ 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm (EST)
Please join La Escuelita Arcoiris’ educators and families for a bilingual stroll through Frick park. * Únase a los educadores y familias de La Escuelita Arcoiris para un paseo bilingüe por Frick Park.
To learn more about Remake Learning Days and the 200 fun and FREE events across southwestern PA, visit us at https://remakelearningdays.org/southwesternpa/. Families with kids of all ages can easily find hands-on learning activities. Build robots, create art, try new technology, enjoy outdoor learning and more. You can filter events by recommended age, learning themes (arts, maker, science, tech, outdoor learning and youth voice), date and cost. (The majority of events are free!) Students can also earn a Career Ready PA badge from the PA Department of Education at select events. Let’s explore, wonder and learn together.
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