Metro Philadelphia
Kids don’t learn in the same ways they used to, and to catch up with the times, C.C.A. Baldi Middle School got updated on Tuesday with a brand-new STEM-focused “Makerspace,” thanks to school staff, a sponsorship from AbbVie pharmaceuticals and the Heart of America Foundation.
The school’s old Information and Media Center was formerly a lending library, but over the years fell out of use, said Gloria Chernyakhovsky, known to students as Ms. Cherny. She attended Baldi as a student in the ’90s and recently returned as the school’s Media Arts and Technology Specialist and Technology Teacher Leader.
“The IMC was a place we’d go and get library books and take them out, and we had classes there,” Cherny recalled. “When I came here to work here two years ago, it was just a dead space. It was almost like a storage…
