Proud to be from Pittsburgh: The Citizen Science Lab

A local scientist has been serving his community, helping youngsters learn at the Citizen Science Lab in the Hill District.

Those pupils include the 5th graders from Pittsburgh Miller. When Channel 11 visited the team, which is made up of 11-year-old girls, they were hard at work building an underwater robot for a nationwide competition.

Andre Samuel had a vision as a PhD student for setting up a lab where underserved children could have access to the sciences right in their neighborhood. He said getting girls introduced to STEM is an important piece of that.