Global Citizenship Day and STEAM Day

On Thursday, October 8, Scarsdale High School will host its Global Citizenship Day. The purpose of the Day is to foster awareness of various problems facing the planet on an economic, environmental and political plane. The Day also seeks to enlighten students as to important global trends. Finally, the workshops also seek to promote student critical-thinking and involvement in addressing these global issues.

Workshops are held during the day with speakers from the local community, professors, teachers and/or student groups on a wide variety of topics, ranging from Climate Change to Sustainable Agriculture to Educational Equity to Protest Art to Scarsdale in the Nation's Service to LGBT rights to a host of other topics relevant to our world today.

This is a great opportunity for students to think critically about their world. For more information contact Maggie Favretti at 914-721-2567.

STEAM Day
The Scarsdale PT Council is excited to announce that its first STEAM Day will take place on November 14th from 9am until 12pm at the Scarsdale Middle School for 4th through 6th graders.

The workshop catalog can be found on-line here: 

The morning will begin with a keynote address by Don Luistro, a science instructor at the New York Hall of Science. Mr. Luistro will give demonstrations on the phases of matter. Students will be amazed at how they can make ice in 30 seconds, shrink balloons without removing the air inside, and crush a can without touching it. Mr. Luistro will then be joined by more than 25 amazing individuals spanning the spectrum of STEAM disciplines who will share their talents with the students through small hands-on workshops. The format of the day will follow that of the ever successful Young Writers' Workshop - each student will have a chance to experience two of our workshops which they will choose during the registration process.

Registration will take place on-line beginning October 15th, 2015. A link to registration will be provided to you as we near the opening of registration.

Support this exciting and inspiring district-wide event. Contact the Co-Chairs with any questions.

Ophira Cukierman (ocukierman@gmail.com) and Amy Goldstein (abgold1@yahoo.com)
STEAM Day 2015 Co-Chairs