Students at Washington Park Elementary School participate in an afterschool program focused on coding, which is a part of the Innovation Huddle program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation. Innovation Huddle’s goal is to teach students in grades four through six about STEM programs such as coding, animation, engineering, and robotics. Bettis stopped by Washington Park Elementary School on Feb. 20, 2020, to see the coding projects the students were working on, to discuss the Innovation Huddle program, and to hand out certificates and enjoy cupcakes with the students. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)
Ethan Walter, center, 12, a student at Washington Park Elementary School, works on his coding project with his peers, including Kaitlyn Bell, left, 11, and David Lloid, 12, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, during an after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, at Washington Park Elementary School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Jerome Bettis speaks to Washington Park Elementary students about his after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Washington Park Elementary School. The students are involved in an after school coding club, which is sponsored by Innovation Huddle. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Ayden Small, 12, a sixth-grader at Washington Park Elementary School, laughs after asking his classmates a question about coding and they admit to him they don’t know what he’s talking about during an after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Washington Park Elementary School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Jerome Bettis looks at a coding project Tristan Reynolds, 12, a sixth-grader at Washington Park Elementary School, is working on during an after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Washington Park Elementary School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Lilly Hindman, 11, a sixth-grader at Washington Park Elementary School, explains to her classmates the block based coding techniques she used for a project involving music and animation on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, during an after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, at Washington Park Elementary School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Jerome Bettis looks at a coding project with Kaitlyn Bell, 12. She and David Lloid, left, 12, both sixth-graders at Washington Park Elementary School, work on his project during an after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Washington Park Elementary School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Ayden Small, 12, a sixth-grader at Washington Park Elementary School, looks at his laptop to try to find the name of a piece of code during an after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Washington Park Elementary School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Jerome Bettis speaks to students, including Tristan Reynolds, right, 12, a sixth-grader at Washington Park Elementary School, about his after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Washington Park Elementary School. The students are involved in an after school coding club, which is sponsored by Innovation Huddle. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Ayden Small, 12, a sixth-grader at Washington Park Elementary School, shakes hands with Jerome Bettis as Bettis passes out certificates of achievement during an after school program called Innovation Huddle, a program created by the Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation that teaches students in grades four through six about coding, animation, engineering, robotics, and other aspects of STEM, on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, at Washington Park Elementary School. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)
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