South Fayette, Keystone Oaks and Pittsburgh Public’ s Schiller Middle School Students Design a Café Space for the Energy Innovation Center
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South Fayette, Keystone Oaks and Pittsburgh Public’ s Schiller Middle School Students Design a Café Space for the Energy Innovation Center
What began as a business-to-school project that was new to the middle school level became a very rewarding and beneficial learning experience for everyone involved. Nine students from South Fayette Middle School, along with student representatives from Keystone Oaks and Schiller Middle School, partnered with the Energy Innovation Center( EIC) to design its café space. The EIC is recognized as both a historical building as well as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design( LEED) certified building. Therefore, the students had to design a café area that considered both of these aspects. The students, along with three mentor teachers, committed a lot of time to develop a thoughtful, research-based, and innovative proposal for an EIC café space.
Students had to utilize many content-based skills in order to prepare for their presentation and to be knowledgeable of their business proposal. Additionally, they had to utilize and
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62 South Fayette enhance skills such as collaboration, public speaking, compromise, innovation, and design. All of these skills combined made for an invaluable experience that mirrors expectations in business and the real world. Covering the food preparatory and service area, from the seating plan to the actual menu, the students presented researched-based ideas, as well as ideas that are not even on the market yet. They included artwork, a fully designed app, a studentproduced commercial, and 3-D visual representations of their plan. In all, they created a presentation that was a sum of their strengths and knowledge. It was an outstanding representation of our students, staff, and educational programming as they prepare for the next steps and their future pathways.
South Fayette Middle School students taking part included 6th grade students Hriday Chauhan, Anisha Ganesh, and Zoe McCoy; 7th grade students Cecilia Coll, Emma Francis, Marija Gupta, and Sahishnu Hanumolu; and 8th graders Haley Allcorn, Sid Khajanchi, Katlynn Kyle, Priya Matreja, and Spruha Vashi. They are pictured here with their Keystone Oaks and EIC partners, Robert Meeder, CEO, EIC and Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation; Jessica Lee, Vice President and Program Director, Pittsburgh Gateways; and Ashleigh Pollard, EIC Office Manager. Special thanks goes to South Fayette Middle School teachers Bridget Amato and Lisa Donavan for providing this incredible real-world experience for their students.