STEEL CITY SQUASH INC
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Mission Statement
Steel City Squash is an out of school academic and athletic enrichment program serving low-SES families in the Pittsburgh region. Our mission is to provide consistent and long-term academic, health and fitness, and social-emotional support for our students. Our goal is to leverage the network unique to squash to help students gain opportunity and access at the highest levels of academic and career paths.
About This Cause
Steel City Squash provides Monday-Friday, after-school programming at the University of Pittsburgh. We transport all students to and from our program in an effort to ensure accessibility to the program. While here, students work half of their time in the classroom with a dedicate academic staff member and volunteers to ensure all homework assignments are completed and skills are mastered. Furthermore, students are provided with a STEM based enrichment program aimed at developing fundamental academic skills. The other half of their time is devoted to health and fitness training through the fun and engaging sport of squash. Students learn to advance their squash skills while also improving the strength, conditional, flexibility, and dynamic movement required to be a proficient squash player. On the weekends, students travel in and around Pittsburgh completing community service projects, touring local cultural attractions, or competing against local squash players and teams. At least once a month, students get the opportunity to travel to other cities and colleges all over the country to compete in national squash tournaments. While they travel, each trip builds in a cultural experience to help students engage with communities beyond Pittsburgh. Part of the goal of the program is to teach students the value of engaging with people and places outside of their neighborhoods, and travel allows us to encourage that. During the summer, Steel City Squash provides a five-week, comprehensive academic and athletic enrichment program called Summer Discovery. This all-day program combats "summer slide" through project based STEM curricula, literacy improvement, and fun activities like squash, swimming, climbing wall, and gym-based games. For older students, Steel City Squash provides scholarship opportunities to travel around the country to academic programs and squash camps, helping students to experience even more of the opportunities that squash can provide. Finally, we also partner with local businesses and non-profits to provide out high school age students internships and work that can help them learn the skills necessary to be an effective member of a business. In essence, Steel City Squash is a holistic student-oriented enrichment program that practices and "inch-wide, mile-deep" approach to youth enrichment.