Category: Bucks County Intermediate Unit

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) was proud to host the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) for a round­table dis­cus­sion regard­ing their award to the Bucks IU of a PAsmart Advancing Grant.  This grant, for $412,656, is for the cre­ation of a Mobile Fab (Fabrication) … Read more...

The Bucks IU’s 22nd Annual “Caring Community Awards Celebration” was a great suc­cess on the evening of May 15th! Our Bucks IU staff mem­bers, nom­i­nat­ed over 130 recip­i­ents for this spe­cial award, whose pur­pose is to rec­og­nize indi­vid­u­als, out­side of our Bucks IU, that have made an extra­or­di­nary … Read more...

The Bucks IU’s enor­mous­ly pop­u­lar Mobile FAB LAB is now offer­ing a STEAM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Art-Math) Online Summer Camp!

About this Event
Join us for this fun STEAM learn­ing expe­ri­ence! Campers will all receive their own per­son­al CAMP BOX, shipped direct­ly to their home pri­or to the start of camp. Each … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU), an edu­ca­tion­al ser­vice agency sup­port­ing the schools of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has been award­ed state grant fund­ing to sup­port the cre­ation of new com­put­er sci­ence and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) ini­tia­tives in the coun­ty.  The grant fund­ing, total­ing more than … Read more...

This styl­ish car is actu­al­ly a Fabrication Laboratory on wheels that vis­its Bucks County schools every week!

Students at Butler Elementary School had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to build 3D build­ings using com­put­er soft­ware and a laser cut­ter. The “Fab Lab” also deliv­ers 3D print­ers, 3D pens, and more.

The pro­gram was … Read more...

On Saturday October 27^th, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) held a craft fair ben­e­fit­ting their Education Foundation, through which teach­ers can apply for grants that sup­port edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams.  To date, almost a half mil­lion dol­lars in grants have been dis­trib­uted, mak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant impact in … Read more...

A Celebration of Performance and Visual Arts Education in our Public Schools

The School Districts of Bucks County are excit­ed to be host­ing an Arts Exposition to fea­ture and high­light the depth, breadth, and vari­ety of the arts pro­grams being offered through our Bucks County pub­lic schools.  This free expo … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) host­ed a forum to review and dis­cuss the results of a study com­mis­sioned by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on “Sleep Deprivation in Adolescents: The Case for Delaying Secondary School Start Times.”  Organized by the Bucks IU… Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU), along with The Transition Coordinating Council of Bucks County, are host­ing their 19th Annual Secondary Transition Options and Resource Fair on Thursday, November 1, 2018.  This unique event focus­es on pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion on sup­port ser­vices, spe­cial­ty pro­grams, employ­ment sup­port agen­cies, col­leges, … Read more...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit has received a $10,000 grant that will be used by IU spe­cial­ists to help preschool and kinder­garten chil­dren at var­i­ous schools and oth­er edu­ca­tion­al facil­i­ties refine
their fine motor skills.

The grant was award­ed by the non­prof­it Foundations Community Partnership, a phil­an­thropic grant-making foun­da­tion sup­port­ing … Read more...

The stu­dents at the Bucks IU at Samuel Everitt in Middletown stuffed more than 700 stock­ings to send to troops over­seas. 

MIDDLETOWN — The stu­dents of the Bucks Intermediate Unit at Samuel Everitt recent­ly stuffed hol­i­day stock­ings to send to troops sta­tioned over­seas. Now in its third year, the “… Read more...

Teacher in the Workplace is a grant pro­gram where it con­nects edu­ca­tors to local busi­ness lead­ers and employ­ers. Teachers can vis­it local employ­ers to learn new skills and indus­try trends. Through this pro­gram, kinder­garten through post-secondary edu­ca­tors, coun­selors, and admin­is­tra­tors learn more about indus­try trends, needs, and oppor­tu­ni­ties – which … Read more...

On Wednesday May 1st, 2019 the Bucks IU host­ed their annu­al EmployAbility Expo. Held at the Bucks IU’s Administrative Building in Doylestown PA, this event drew over 100 Bucks County high school stu­dents with dis­abil­i­ties who were inter­est­ed in prac­tic­ing and devel­op­ing the con­fi­dence, skills, and strate­gies they … Read more...

Bucks County res­i­dents who need help for any­thing from finan­cial assis­tance to men­tal health and sub­stance abuse coun­sel­ing can find it by call­ing one num­ber: 2–1‑1. The free, 24/7 phone num­ber con­nects callers to local health and human ser­vices orga­ni­za­tions and resources to help with food inse­cu­ri­ty, finan­cial prob­lems, hous­ing … Read more...

The COVID-19 quar­an­tine and school clo­sures is not keep­ing our Bucks IU Mobile FAB LAB from bring­ing amaz­ing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) activ­i­ties to stu­dents.  We are mak­ing sure stu­dent can still get the fun of STEAM learn­ing even when they’re at home.  Our STEAM Energizers are designed … Read more...

As most of us are aware, our coun­try is in the mid­dle of an opi­oid over­dose epi­dem­ic. In the wake of this epi­dem­ic, a new school code requires schools to pro­vide instruc­tion to stu­dents in grades 6–12 relat­ed to the pre­ven­tion of opi­oid abuse, begin­ning in the 2018–19 school year. … Read more...