New Outlook Academy news

Folks all over the city of Pittsburgh have been raving about the spectacular performance of Disney's Aladdin that recently ran at the beautiful Benedum Theater downtown. Among the attendees who saw the show were several young ladies from New Outlook Academy. After the show, they girls enjoyed a trip to the Milkshake Factory for a delicious dessert.
The students and staff wish to thank Tickets for Kids Charities for the amazing experience and opportunity.

We are extremely excited to announce New Outlook Academy's newest career and technical training class – PHOTOGRAPHY. Students are learning proper care and use of their equipment, as well as camera and lens settings.
The class has also been on several outings around the city to photograph different scenes and locations, including Mt. Washington, South Park and Homestead. They have also learned photo editing skills using Microsoft Publisher. Students are thoroughly enjoying the creative aspects of the class and are proud to display their work throughout the school.

Recently, a group of our mental health therapists and drug and alcohol counselors completed an on-site, 12-hour Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training with Dr. Anthony Mannarino. Dr. Mannarino is a co-developer of TF-CBT and has been a leader in the field of child traumatic stress for…

Cookies anyone???
The New Outlook Academy students are now cooking in their brand new state-of-the-art bakery shop. The facility includes large mixers, refrigerators and a double convection oven. The course includes study of the fundamentals of baking items including dough, quick breads, pies, cakes, cookies, tarts and pastries. Everyone is excited to share in the sweet success that the New Outlook Bake Shop will be serving up.

Students in Ms. George's Science class had the opportunity to experiment with extracting DNA from strawberries. Students added water, salt and dish soap to smashed strawberries to break up the cells and release the DNA. Filtering out the chunks of strawberries isolated the liquid. They then added rubbing alcohol which caused the DNA to become visible. Students were then able to pull out and handle the exposed DNA. Bill Nye the Science Guy has nothing on New Outlook Academy!!!

June 7, 2018 marked the graduation of four wonderful young women from New Outlook Academy. Loved ones gathered to celebrate the ceremony which was held at Summit Academy's beautiful chapel. After the ceremony, everyone enjoyed a banquet in honor of our new graduates. Congratulations to the New Outlook Academy Class of 2018. We are so excited to see what you accomplish next!

New Outlook Academy hosted a Creative Expression contest on campus recently. The theme of the event was "Using Your Strengths to Overcome Your Challenges." The students created posters and wrote essays and some of their works were selected for submission to the Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Judges Commission Conference Poster and Essay Contests. All of the projects were incredibly inspiring and award-winning in our opinion. Congrats to all of our artists.

Congratulations to our New Outlook Academy graduates… may you follow your dreams and achieve your true potential!! We are so proud of you.

Students at New Outlook Academy enjoyed a day out at PNC Park to see the Pirates take on the St. Louis Cardinals.

Congratulations to Ashahanna N. Her essay composition earned Honorable Mention from the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. SACP is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of analytical chemistry through science education. Also, kudos to New Outlook Academy Science Teacher Ms. George for providing this opportunity to her class.