Category: Bucks County Intermediate Unit

Each year, approx­i­mate­ly 4,000 stu­dents receive Preschool Early Intervention (PEI) ser­vices from the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) at loca­tions across the coun­ty. The Bucks IU’s PEI ser­vices are specif­i­cal­ly tai­lored to help preschool­ers max­i­mize their growth and devel­op­men­tal gains before start­ing kinder­garten. Of these … 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...

Looking for some­thing fun for the kids on November 22^nd when school is closed?! Bring them to the Fab Lab Center for a day filled with fab­ri­ca­tion, cod­ing, and engi­neer­ing! Half-day and full-day options avail­able. Details and reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion at: www.BucksIU.org/FabLab/Events

• For Home Schooled chil­dren, a Field Trip Day

Neither rain nor sleet nor lim­i­ta­tions due to a pan­dem­ic will keep the stu­dents of the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) at Samuel Everitt from com­plet­ing their annu­al Stockings for Soldiers pro­gram.  In this 6^th year, dona­tions of the var­i­ous items to put into the stock­ings, as … 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...

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) 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...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) has been hon­ored with the inau­gur­al BrainSTEPS Team Exceptional Performance Award, dis­tin­guish­ing it as one of only four teams across Pennsylvania—and the sole recip­i­ent in the south­east­ern region of the Commonwealth—to receive this pres­ti­gious recognition.

BrainSTEPS (Strategies Teaching Educators, Parents, and Students) … 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...

Secretary Rick Siger, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), has announced that the Shapiro Administration is invest­ing $200,000 in the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) Fab Lab’s Career Awareness Program. This new pro­gram will offer Bucks County mid­dle school stu­dents hands-on learn­ing expe­ri­ences in … 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...

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) 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...

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...