Meaningful Play 2024 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars, industry professionals and games practitioners together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways.

This is a free opportunity for all PGH schools within a 15-20 minute car ride of Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon University has a lot of inspirational graduate engineering students, who are enthusiastic and excited about STEM outreach!

If you are interested in having CMU students visit your classroom, either to support an upcoming lesson, or to bring an NGSS/STEELS activity, coding activity, or engineering activity to your students, please fill out our google form! As former K-12 teachers ourselves, we are looking forward to working together with you in order to support our local Pittsburgh area teachers, and K-12 students interested in engineering. This year, engineering student teams are currently prioritizing Physical Science and Engineering for 2024-2025, but we do still have some Earth and Life Science content available if requested.

Program content is primarily for academic classroom day content, but can be adapted for informal OST programs as well!

Hello Pittsburgh teachers! Carnegie Mellon University has a lot of inspirational graduate engineering students, who are enthusiastic and excited about STEAM (especially engineering) outreach!
If you are interested in having CMU students visit your classroom, either to support an upcoming lesson, or to bring an NGSS/STEELS STEAM activity, coding activity, or engineering activity to your students, please fill out our google form! As former K-12 teachers ourselves, we are looking forward to working together with you in order to support our local Pittsburgh area teachers, and K-12 students interested in engineering.

For 6-12 classrooms, we will continue to bring lessons that support coding lessons, engineering topics (hardware, AI, ML), and hands on math and physics lessons. We also support egg drops, and bridge building activities throughout the academic year in case you would like a few pairs of extra hands!