A Different Kind of Summer Camp at the Fab Lab Center

When peo­ple think ‘sum­mer camp’ they think out­door sports and activ­i­ties, swim­ming, tents, and camp­fires. However, the great out­doors isn’t the ide­al sum­mer expe­ri­ence for every­one. The Fab Lab Center is offer­ing 10 dif­fer­ent sum­mer camp themes that include all the fun, friends, and FABulous mem­o­ries of tra­di­tion­al sum­mer camps … Read more...

Cultivating a Robust Pipeline for Educational Leadership in Bucks County

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...

Bucks IU Educators Help Preschool StudentsDevelop a Love for Learning

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...

Bucks IU Fab Lab Awarded $450,000 PAsmart Grant for Mobile Fab Lab Expansion

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...

Bucks IU Approved to Train the Trainers

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...

FABulous Fun at the FAB LAB Center

Looking for some­thing fun for the kids on November 22nd 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
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The Bucks IU Announces the Bucks County 2022 STEM Design Challenge Winners

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 IU Celebrates the Grand Opening
of the New Fab Lab Center

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...