FULL
STEAM
AHEAD
By Jennifer Brozak
W
hen Sarah Ezolt first moved to Pittsburgh with her family from Boston, she was surprised
to learn there wasn’t a local creative problem-solving program for her young son, who was
interested in science, technology, engineering, arts and math, or STEAM, activities.
So, she started one.
Ezolt, 37, is a parent volunteer for two Pine-Richland Odyssey of the Mind teams: a Primary
Division team at Wexford Elementary School, and a Division 1 team at Eden Hall Upper
Elementary School.
Odyssey of the Mind is an international competition program for children in kindergarten through
college. The program teaches children how to think creatively to solve problems while having fun with
their peers. It is run entirely by parent volunteers.
“My oldest son was little when we moved here, so we started
looking for programs for him, similar to the Destination
Imagination programs that existed in Boston. We were shocked to
learn that one didn’t already exist in our community,” says Ezolt,
who lives in Wexford with her husband, Phil, and three boys, who
are now 10, 7 and 3.
She soon learned that the Odyssey of the Mind program was
popular in Pittsburgh, so she approached her son’s principal about
Wexford’s Sarah Ezolt brings enrichment to Pine-Richland
through Odyssey of the Mind and STEAM Studio.
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