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PRESS RELEASE: MicroSociety Inc. Awarded Grant From Richard King Mellon Foundation to Expand Innovative Education Program in Pittsburgh
July 24th, 2024
MicroSociety Inc. (MSI) is excited to announce that it has been awarded a generous grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to expand its innovative educational model to two new schools in the Pittsburgh area. This grant will support the implementation of the MicroSociety model, including its new digital platform, at Founders’ Hall Middle School in McKeesport and Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter School in downtown Pittsburgh.
‘SMARTLAND’: Charter school hosts inauguration ceremony for MicroSociety
April 12th, 2024
The students at Instant Impact Global Preparatory Charter School in Natchez, Mississippi, have built a MicroSociety called “Smartland” and on Tuesday inaugurated its presidents, mayors, judge, police and peacekeepers.
Seminole Students Learn How a Community Works With a MicroSociety
November 21st, 2023
Stenstrom Elementary School in Oveido, Florida, gave News 6 WKMG anchor Julie Broughton a tour of its “MicrOveido” MicroSociety. She visited businesses like the Stallion Supply Station, Addition Financial, Stallion News Network, and Stenstrom Harvest, all of which are managed by students in third to fifth grade.
Microsocieties and Much More: Entrepreneurship Education Is Inspiring Kids Throughout SWPA
November 6th, 2023
Welcome to Soarmania, the “MicroSociety” that exists inside Penn Hills Charter School for Entrepreneurship. Since 2011, this K-through-8 school has partnered with the folks at MicroSociety, Inc., to use entrepreneurial education to teach kids about planning, launching and managing businesses — and teach citizenship, humanities and service along the way. Throughout the school day, science, math, social studies, and English language arts learning all incorporate entrepreneurial concepts in different ways.
Penn Hills Charter to Share Its ‘Entrepreneurship Mindset’ With Other Schools
May 8th, 2023
Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh plans to share its expertise with other schools in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties that serve low-income areas where residents “are historically underrepresented in entrepreneurship,” says Wayne Jones, the school’s CEO, reports NEXTpittsburgh. In December, the Richard King Mellon Foundation awarded a $250,000 grant to MicroSociety Inc., the Philadelphia-based nonprofit that provides the educational model for grades K-6 at the school. The aim is to recruit up to three new Pittsburgh schools.