Our group’s project timeline involved a site visit to both Connellsville and Uniontown, where we met with local community members and leaders, gained community input, and experienced the distinctive features of both towns. The main assets my group and I identified during our site visit, particularly in Connellsville, was the Great Allegheny Passage, and the…
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My Time with the Appalachian Teaching Project
Hello! My name is Natalie Frank, and I am a senior at Pitt majoring in Urban Studies and Anthropology, minoring in Political Science, and getting a certificate in Public and Professional Writing. Through one of my Urban Studies classes this past semester, I had the opportunity to work with a great group of fellow students…
Diving Deeper into Appalachia
On our trip to Connellsville and Uniontown this semester as apart of the Appalachian Teaching Project, we got to do field research by interviewing local business owners and government officials. To start our research, we looked online at different Connellsville and Uniontown websites to identify local businesses and assets. Some of which included The State…
Going into the Appalachian Teaching Project
Jessica Jones Junior at the University of Pittsburgh Biology major, French minor, and Sustainability Certificate Fun fact about me: I am from Pittsburgh and grew up about 15 minutes away from campus. This past fall I was apart of the Appalachian Teaching Project through the University of Pittsburgh Frederick Honors College and my sustainability capstone…
Joining the Appalachian Resilience Project
Mikayla Scheckler Senior @ University of Pittsburgh Political Science & Urban Studies Major Unique about me: I grew up in rural Appalachia where we saw similar problems to the communities in Fayette County. The purpose of the Appalachian Teaching Project (ATP) is to get students involved in a ten year community-based research to discover the…
FCCT Wrap Up
SOLO PROJECTS: Trail Town Assets and Business Corridor – My work for the business corridor consisted of gathering additional assets for Connellsville that did not appear on the Fall 2021 asset map. Some of these places include additional eateries, a bakery, historic places to see, and shopping outlets. To gather an idea of what Connellsville…
Introduction: FCCT
Hi! I’m Gabby! I’m a senior urban studies and sustainability major at the University of Pittsburgh. This spring semester I am an intern working with the Fayette County Cultural Trust located in Connellsville Pennsylvania. The FCCT is a non-profit organization built to improve and enrich the local communities quality of life through art, history, and…
ATP Reflection: Final Blog
Now that the semester and the first Pitt Appalachian Teaching Project class has ended, the time has come to reflect on some of the hard work produced by our team. To begin, our team created a handful of valuable deliverables to pass on the Fayette County community such as an asset map, recorded interviews, and…
ATP Reflection Pt. 2
My experience working on this project didn’t just expand my knowledge of Connellsville and the Appalachian region, it also helped me develop important skills that will help me throughout the rest of my college career and beyond. The first two major skills that matured immensely for me during the course of this project was teamwork…
My ATP Experience: A Reflection
As the semester comes to an end, my work on the Appalachian Teaching Project comes to an end as well (for now).The 3rd of December marked our last presentation for the project and our last official session together as a group. But, even before the time of our final presentation, our team had already produced…