Many school-age children have visited the IDEA Center, as well, including students from the NEPA PAC After School Program who used the IDEA Center\u2019s industry-level design and fabrication tools to create personal brand images that were engraved onto wooden plaques. Students also went home with custom NEPA PAC T-shirts that they personally hand pressed.<\/p>\n
The visit, which included five Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine students who volunteered to help, made for \u201can evening of creativity, innovation and hands-on learning,\u201d Bryan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cExperiences like that embody the mission of the IDEA Center,\u201d Bryan said. \u201cMoving learners from consumers to creators and empowering young people across our region to see themselves as innovators, leaders and makers of their own future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weiss Hall also serves as the headquarters for the Departments of Psychology and of Criminal Justice, Cybersecurity and Sociology; the Small Business Development Center; Student Health Services; the University of Success; and the Center for Health, Education and Wellness.<\/p>\n
Together, these academic units, student-support offices and University programs fulfill the charge given years ago by one of the building\u2019s benefactors.<\/p>\n
“Get the idea, do basic research, apply the idea,\u201d Robert S. Weiss said at the 2024 naming announcement. \u201cThen go out and \u2018set the world on fire.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many school-age children have visited the IDEA Center, as well, including students from the NEPA PAC After School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46505,17212,57960,178,180,179,274,5499],"class_list":["post-139951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-idea-center","tag-innovation","tag-makerspace","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton","tag-weiss-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}