WHAT’S NEWS IN SHALER
MUSIC FOR MS
MuSic for MS, a Pittsburgh-based
music festival that benefits those living
with MS, will host its fourth annual event
at Hartwood Acres on Aug. 12. Over
the past three years, $132,500 has been
raised.
Many local performers will be
featured this year including Mark
Dignam, Tullycavy, the North Allegheny
Fiddlers and Folk Chorale. National
band performances will include The
Seamus Egan Project (founder of Solas)
and Donna the Buffalo. The Master of
Ceremonies for the event will once again
be Pittsburgh’s own Michele Michaels
from WDVE Radio.
In addition to great music, this family-
friendly event will include some of the
region’s best local food, beverage and
merchandise vendors. Doors open
at 3 p.m. and musical acts will begin
at 4 p.m. All parking for this event is
available on site and is free of charge.
MuSic for MS will be held rain or shine
and is a general admission event with 100
percent outdoor seating on the Hartwood
Acres Amphitheater lawn. Please bring
your own chairs and/or blankets. No
umbrellas, tents or shelters will be
permitted in the main seating area.
For more information, contact Greg
Lusty at 724.601.3923.
SCOUTING FOR FOOD
Scouting for Food is a nationwide food
drive to assist local communities that are
food insecure. During the month of April,
local Boy Scouts distributed door hangers
in their neighborhoods to announce the
food drive. Scouts then return to pick up
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and deliver donations to local food banks
and pantries.
A Scout promises “to help other people
at all times.” Scouting for Food is the
leading service program for Boy Scouts
of America and is a part of the national
BSA program Good Turn for America.
Support your local Boy Scouts by
participating in the annual Scouting for
Food drive! For more information, visit
LHC-BSA.org.
CWNC classroom. Students were blown
away by the amount of computer-aided
machinery available to the engineering
students. They recognized that the
seemingly simple skills they are
developing in class are being honed at
universities across the nation and
deployed to solve some of our
generation’s most pressing challenges.
CADD CONNECTIONS:
LOCAL COMPANIES
INSPIRE FUTURE
ENGINEERS
David Yackuboskey and his students
from the Intro to CADD class at Cardinal
Wuerl North Catholic High School
(CWNCHS) spent a day touring relevant
STEM career locations. The first stop of
the STEM tour, Michael Baker
International, introduced actual models
used in the construction and renovation
of roadways, generated using the same
computer software students use in the
classroom.
Lunchtime found the group at Robert
Morris University’s Department of
Engineering. The scale of RMU’s STEM
efforts was exponential next to the
The afternoon brought the group to
Cadnetics, a full-service production team
that leads a project from existing building
document through computer-aided
design and building information
modeling, to 3D visual representations.
James Mauler and Travis Johnson of
Cadnetics captured students’ attention
with a laser scanner rendering of a three-
dimensional model of the room they were
in. The model was created and could then
be manipulated using CADD software
similar to what is used in the classroom.
The combination of the tour with a
passionate teacher and project-based
opportunities for the students prepares a
new generation for the 21st century jobs
we can only imagine.
Read more at stemcareertours.com.
CWNC TEACHERS
HONORED
Three teachers from Cardinal Wuerl
North Catholic were recently honored for
the completion of year-long Distinguished
Educator Research Fellowships through
Grow a Generation.
Amy Murray developed a Zebrafish
Aquaria in her classroom and enabled 16
of her AP Biology students to compete
in the Pittsburgh Regional Science and
Engineering Fair, doing sophisticated