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WHAT’S NEWS IN MOON TOWNSHIP
Gina Catanzarite of Moon, left, receives the
2018 Carnegie Science Award in the category of
Science Communicator from Shannon Perrine,
evening anchor for WTAE, Channel 4, on May 4,
2018, at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland.
CATANZARITE WINS
SCIENCE
COMMUNICATOR
CARNEGIE SCIENCE
AWARD
Carnegie Science Center is celebrating
the achievements of local leaders in
science innovation, research, and
education with the 2018 Carnegie
Science Awards.
Moon Township’s Gina Catanzarite,
television producer and writer for
Arania Productions, won the Science
Communicator Award.
Catanzarite has a rich portfolio of
projects related to the sciences, including
content for PBS affiliate WQED
Multimedia. She is known for explaining
complex issues in ways that are both
educational and enjoyable. Frequent
themes of her work are clinical and
translational science, the environment,
and medical topics.
Several of her projects have been
distributed nationally by PBS and
American Public Television. Her Emmy-
winning documentary “The Race to Save
Pennsylvania’s Bats” was selected for the
Environmental Film Festival and the
American Conservation Film Festival.
The Carnegie Science Awards
champion efforts to strengthen science
and technology in our region. This year’s
winners range from a culinary arts teacher
whose coursework extends beyond the
conventional kitchen into food-science
research and career exploration, to a tech
start-up that secured $1 billion from Ford
Motor Company. These winners were
selected by a committee of peers—past
awardees and industry leaders—who
rigorously reviewed nominations and
selected the most deserving winners.
The awards celebration featured a
strolling dinner, silent auction, and
awards presentation full of amazing
stories about the region’s top minds
in science, technology, research and
education. It provided a rich networking
platform while raising funds to support
the science center’s education programs
that identify, nurture, and inspire the
next generation of leaders in science and
technology.
“The Carnegie Science Awards applaud
some of the most exciting leaders
and innovators in our region’s science
community,” said Ron Baillie, Henry
Buhl, Jr., Co-Director of Carnegie Science
Center. “They helped make Pittsburgh the
technology hub it has become and inspire
the young people who will become the
next generation of professionals in the
STEM fields of science, engineering,
technology, and math.”
Ann Metzger, Henry Buhl, Jr., Co-
Director of Carnegie Science Center,
said the awards are an integral part of the
mission of promoting STEM education,
further energized now that the center’s
PPG Science Pavilion has opened,
providing additional state-of-the-art
classroom space.
“Winners of the Carnegie Science
Awards represent the pinnacle of
excellence in STEM fields and STEM
education,” Metzger said. “We are thrilled
to recognize our amazing awardees and
expect them to continue to do us proud
with their accomplishments in the future.”
Through the support of committed
sponsors, the Carnegie Science
Awards program has honored the
accomplishments of more than 550
individuals and organizations. Eaton is
the presenting sponsor for the Carnegie
Science Awards. Chevron is the prime
sponsor.
CORAOPOLIS’ GAVIN
HELD WINS BOYS
DIVISION OF 2018
ALLEGHENY COUNTY
MARBLES
TOURNAMENT
The Allegheny County Parks
Department announced the winners of
the 2018 County Marbles Tournament,
which took place May 31-June 2 in the
Courthouse Courtyard.
In the girls division, 14-year-old Lauren
Shuty of South Side Flats was crowned
champion, and 14-year-old Madison
Johnson of Lawrenceville was the
runner-up. In the boys division, 10-year-
old Gavin Held of Coraopolis took the
championship, and 10-year-old Brian
Lemon of Edgewood was the runner-up.
Allegheny County’s marbles program
has produced 32 national champions
since the tournament started in 1922,
including 13 since 2004: Sierra Ricci and
Eli Murphy in 2017; Haley Grenesko in
2016; Emily Cavacini in 2013; Bailey
Narr and Brandon Matchett in 2011;
Penelope Bauer in 2010; Amber Ricci and
John Leffakis in 2008; Alexandra Bauer in
2007; Keith Moss in 2006; Jamie Miller
in 2005; and Carly Miller in 2004.
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