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The premise of the game "Booeys: A Ghost's Code" is a simple one: guide a ghost through a series of increasingly difficult puzzles, helping characters called "Lost" reach the portal on the other side and avoid various pitfalls along the way.
It's the real endgame that is a little more complex. At the end of each level, players see what skill sets they used to achieve a solution, including "logic," "problem-solving," "algorithmic thinking," "building solutions" and "attention to detail."
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
One recent afternoon, Sita Adhikari disappeared into small room bustling with nurses on the fifth floor of Jefferson Hospital. Her shift drawing to a close, she emerged with a cart of plastic cups and moved briskly down the cardiac care unit full of thirsty, bedridden patients.
An 18-year-old Baldwin High School student, Ms. Adhikari came to the U.S. from Nepal five years ago as a refugee. But for all the instability she has experienced, she has her future mapped out: She wants to go to college to be a nurse.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For three years The Homewood Children’s Village (HCV) has participated in the City of Pittsburgh’s Learn and Earn Summer Employment Program with the purpose to provide work experience to Pittsburgh and Allegheny County young residents.
Learn and Earn is a six-week summer job program for teens and young adults ages 14 to 21. The program provides participants the opportunity to earn money, gain valuable work experience, and to develop soft skills to help them become college- and career-ready.
Source: New Pittsburgh Courier
Learn & Earn interns help spread the word about the dangers of lead and how it threatens the health of young children and pregnant women.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As the workforce development agent serving on behalf of Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Fitzgerald, Partner4Work
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For Sheri Dyson, hope is found in a renovated carriage house in Waynesburg, Greene County.
It’s there she spends her mornings learning new languages. No, not spoken ones. These are languages such as C# in Xamarin, which in layman’s terms is coding that allows an app to be published to any phone.
Dyson’s just one week into a 16-week apprenticeship at Mined Mines, where in May she completed a boot camp to learn the basics of coding.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Pittsburgh City Council approves expenditures of as much as $200,000 to support Pittsburgh’s Learn and Earn Summer Youth Employment Program.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
About six years ago, there came a point when Project Hosts, a company providing security for mobile apps, simply ran out of workers.
The operation was small — a couple dozen people based in Conneautville, a town of 800 people near Meadville — and demand was pouring in from its clients, primarily health care companies and government agencies, as they shifted information to cloud storage.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh has declared itself an “inclusive innovation city,” meaning it is committed to making sure that white people aren’t the only beneficiaries of the tech-based economy it’s trying to cultivate. Here’s how that’s working out.
Source: The Atlantic CityLab
Source: South Pittsburgh Reporter
A common lament among companies in southwestern Pennsylvania is that they can’t find workers with the right skill sets for the jobs they need to fill.
In this article, Stefani Pashman talks about how hiring managers should look beyond past hiring practices to establish more flexibility in hiring and HR practices.
Source: technical.ly
While some communities in the Pittsburgh region struggle to fill summer jobs, Learn & Earn on target to fill nearly 2,000 jobs in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
Source: Tribune-Review
Partner4Work's CEO Stefani Pashman and other community leaders speak with The Atlantic about Pittsburgh's about Pittsburgh's transition from the Steel City to tech hub and the efforts to ensure inclusive growth and opportunity for everyone.
Source: The Atlantic
Partner4Work is a connector — it guides, directs and strategizes over workforce development in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
“Because our money goes out the door through so many organizations, usually you hear about the program, not about us,” says CEO Stefani Pashman.
Partner4Work selects 26 providers, 19 application support sites for Learn & Earn 2017; the application period is expected to open April 10.
No city is safe. The gentrification of cities like New York and San Francisco is well documented. Big companies come in, start handing out nice salaries, landlords realize they can charge more than they once did, and so they do.
Partner4Work CEO Stefani Pashman talks about Pittsburgh's growth in technology jobs in this national NPR story.
Nearly 500 young adults in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County will benefit from $350,000 in awards to organizations tapped to deliver entrepreneurial or STEM programming through the end of June.
The 3 Rivers Workforce Investment Board has a new name and a new mission—to connect the region’s unemployed and underemployed with jobs.
Now known as Partner4Work, the organization continues serving businesses and job seekers in the region with 40,000 for 40,000, a yearlong campaign aimed at getting people back to work. The initiative was announced last night during an event at the Clemente Museum.
Source: NEXT Pittsburgh