Author: Robyn Gross

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) is now cer­ti­fied as one of only three pro­grams in Pennsylvania to pro­vide the Association of Community Rehabilitation Educators (ACRE) competency-based, basic lev­el job train­ing pro­gram. ACRE train­ing is designed for job coach­es, job devel­op­ers, tran­si­tion spe­cial­ists, job place­ment per­son­nel, … Read more...

The artis­tic tal­ent of Bucks County stu­dents took cen­ter stage at the 20^th Annual Student Art Gallery recep­tion, held on Thursday, March 21, 2024, at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) Administrative Offices in Doylestown. Showcasing the cre­ativ­i­ty of young minds, this event served as a cel­e­bra­tion … Read more...

To meet the grow­ing demand for spe­cial­ized stu­dent ser­vices, on Friday, September 5, 2025, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) offi­cial­ly opened new pro­grams in the for­mer Pearl S. Buck Elementary School, on Top Road in Levittown, PA. This expan­sion reflects the Bucks IU’s ongo­ing com­mit­ment … Read more...

On Tuesday May 31st, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) host­ed a ban­quet to hon­or the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the first year of Project SEARCH Bucks (County), an intern­ship pro­gram for young adults with intel­lec­tu­al and devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties pro­vid­ing them employ­ment expe­ri­ences through a total immer­sion in the … Read more...

When chil­dren are asked what FAB stands for at the Fab Lab Center in Warminster PA, they excit­ed­ly shout “FABulous!” They may not be tech­ni­cal­ly cor­rect, but it is won­der­ful know­ing this is how they feel about this Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab) and the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) marked anoth­er sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in its STEAM edu­ca­tion efforts with a ribbon-cutting cer­e­mo­ny to launch a third Mobile Fab Lab on January 20, 2026. Funded through a 2025 PAsmart grant, the new, ful­ly equipped and staffed mobile lab allows the Bucks IU Fab Lab pro­gram to impact more … Read more...

On Friday, March 25, 2022 the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) staged a sur­prise award pre­sen­ta­tion to the win­ning teams of this year’s STEM Design Challenge! Each year, the Bucks IU facil­i­tates the county-wide STEM Design Challenge com­pe­ti­tion for stu­dents in grades 4–8. Elementary teams (grades 4–5) and … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) is very excit­ed to open a learn­ing cen­ter designed and ded­i­cat­ed to sup­port the grow­ing inter­est in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activ­i­ties in Bucks County. The Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) Center is a bright, invit­ing space cen­tral­ly locat­ed at … Read more...

Bucks IU Early Childhood Programs were fea­tured Monday, October 16, 2023, on the “Let’s Talk on WDVR” radio pro­gram. This show, host­ed by Andy Kin, Kelly Unger and Bill Tucker, spoke with Dr. Roseanna Mitsch, Bucks IU Director of Early Childhood Programs. Dr. Mitsch explained about the Bucks IU… Read more...

CHILDREN and YOUTH:

The Fab Lab Center is the hub for STEAM (Science, Tech­nol­o­gy, Engi­neer­ing, Art, and Math) pro­grams in Bucks County by offer­ing chil­dren, edu­ca­tors, school admin­is­tra­tors, busi­ness­es, and orga­ni­za­tions a place to come togeth­er to engage in STEAM fun and inno­va­tion. … Read more...

Preschool teach­ers and sup­port staff at the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) just com­plet­ed the first month of school and spent these open­ing weeks encour­ag­ing young stu­dents to come ready to inter­act with peers, learn, and explore.

“My focus right away is build­ing pos­i­tive rela­tion­ships with the … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) is break­ing new ground by launch­ing Pennsylvania’s first appren­tice­ship pro­gram aimed at devel­op­ing Pre-Kindergarten (PK) to 12 Special Education teach­ers. This inno­v­a­tive pro­gram pro­vides cur­rent Bucks IU staff a unique path­way to earn their Pennsylvania Special Education teach­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion while … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) Fab Lab is the proud recip­i­ent of a $450,000 PAsmart Innovation Grant to expand its incred­i­bly suc­cess­ful Mobile Fab Lab pro­gram. PAsmart grants are intend­ed to expand access to com­put­er sci­ence and sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, engi­neer­ing, and math (STEM) edu­ca­tion for … Read more...

Since its incep­tion in 2017, 229 school lead­ers have com­plet­ed the Bucks County Intermediate Unit’s (Bucks IU’s) Leadership Development Fellowship (LDF) Program. 

“The Bucks IU Leadership Development Fellowship is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for the tal­ent­ed edu­ca­tors in Bucks County to learn from experts in the field of lead­er­ship and from each … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) was extreme­ly proud to hon­or and cel­e­brate the 45 grad­u­ates of their Class of 2022.  This year’s grad­u­at­ing class includes spe­cial edu­ca­tion stu­dents from 11 Bucks County School Districts, and the School Districts of Eastern Lancaster, Philadelphia, Spring-Ford, and Wyoming Valley. Family, … Read more...