Exciting News From The Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative!
The Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative is a recipient of the Let's Play Everywhere Challenge!
Created by KaBOOM!, the national non-profit dedicated to giving all kids the childhood they deserve through play, and Let's Play , from Keurig Dr Pepper, the Let's Play Everywhere Challenge is about creating opportunities for free, unstructured, unplanned play. It is about ensuring all kids, no matter where they come from or where they live, get the active play they need to thrive.
Our project, the Neighborhood Play Stop Project, will continue the work of the Hazelwood Play Trail.
Monthly Blog
This article is part of our Member Blog Series, which showcases Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative Members' efforts and commitment to ensure that play is a critical element in the lives of people of all ages. Each month, a different member organization will share their take on how play is a part of the work they do.
November 1, 2018
Playful Pittsburgh Collaborative Member Blog
Carnegie Science Center
Advocating for Play in Adult Programming
Have you ever been intimidated to take a math or science course? Does infectious disease epidemiology, physics or calculating derivatives sound like fun? Mostly no...BUT what if we explored epidemiology through an interactive game of zombie apocalypse...
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
-George Bernard Shaw
