High School Outreach-- CLASSROOM Presentations and Voter Registration

The Civic Education High School team completed visits for spring and fall 2025, with a new presentation entitled, "Your Government Starts Here-- 2025 Municipal Elections”.   (Slide Deck here)

From January through October 2025, the team presented to approximately 1100 students with this new presentation.

• Our "Happy 18th Birthday" poster and postcard with QR codes to Rock the Vote were sent to 160 contacts in all high schools in Allegheny County and four surrounding counties.  For the winter/spring and fall, we received 867 scans which we assume are probable completed voter registrations.

•  By the end of fall 2025, almost 7000 high school students have been reached by High School Outreach over eight years.

"The Youth Vote" WQED Video

In February 2020, High School Voter Outreach volunteers visited Brentwood High School to present their voter registration/civic education program. 

Brentwood won the 2020 GOLD Governor's Civic Engagement Award, and along with the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh, was featured in a PA Department of State webinar on August 20, which promoted best practices in youth voter outreach.

Are you a Teacher, School Counselor, Parent or Grandparent?  
Do you have an 18- to 24-year-old in your life?  Give them the gift of democracy! 

Young people want to be seen and heard.  
     Help young people take ownership of the power that comes from the rights and responsibilities of turning eighteen.   Share the 18th Birthday card with QR CODE or these other graphics with the young people in your lives!

The link for the Claim Your Power poster geared to College-University students is below (C-U). 
There is also a poster geared to senior citizens here.

 18th Birthday Card PA                18th Birthday Card US              Claim Your Power- C-U 
  https://www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=907636     https://www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=937913        https://www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=910789

If you will be 18 years old on or by the NEXT Election you can register to vote NOW!

If you have a Pennsylvania Driver's License or PennDOT ID, you can register online at vote.pa.gov. You may also use the last 4 digits of your Social Security # if you upload your signature. 

REGISTER NOW!

Much more information can be found on "Voting" web pages in the Menu.

The Civic Education team shares the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh's digital resources with College and University staff to amplify our reach to students through campus social media, websites and email to students.

An example is "Teasers 3.22" which provides short social media messages with links to relevant infographics and other documents.  Getting these resources directly to college and university students helps them to find reliable and trustworthy election, voting and government information.

Two graphics help college-university students understand the ways they can register to vote.

 3 Choices for In-State College Students         3 Choices for Out-of-State College Students   
    https://www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=1018389                       https://www.lwvpgh.org/docs.ashx?id=1018390

Not to Be Missed for Students and Life-long Learners

Find informative web pages, all in one place, about LOCAL GOVERNMENT  

and PA STATE GOVERNMENT on the LWVPGH website. See the Menus for more.

Junior Achievement's Biz Town experience is a national project for 4th-5th-6th graders that requires 9-hours of instruction from their own teachers, including a new Civic Education module.  Part of that module includes a student activity of registering to vote.

Students spend four hours at the impressive BizTown installation in Bridgeville, PA.  They demonstrate problem-solving, creative thinking, collaboration, and team-building skills--and they have a great time doing it! League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh have been volunteering for the three school years, to help students in City Hall and in the Voting Booth that was provided by the Pittsburgh YWCA.  Students choose to vote for the “Quality Business”or “Best Citizen” giving them real-life practice in civic engagement.

LWVPGH members can look to sign up to volunteer now through June (eBlast). Don’t miss this opportunity to see the best part of our country—our youth in action!

A NEW PROJECT--Column Wrap at Biz Town
In 2025, JA offered the LWVPGH an additional opportunity to promote the League and civic education with the visual display of a full interior building structural column “wrapped” on four sides with civic education content.  The information is targeted for the middle school student age group but is relevant to all ages that experience Biz Town including teachers, parents, volunteers, and Biz Town corporate partners. Included in Biz Town visitors are many state and local government officials who get a first hand look at the LWV’s nonpartisan messaging and our student-focused activity.  (Photos of Pillar #1 and Pillar #3 below.)

Do you need PRINTED VOTER MATERIALS?
      Contact us at civic.education@lwvpgh.org

Did you know that over 20% of under resourced communities may not have access to reliable internet?  

READY-SET-VOTE DOOR HANGER BAGS
To respond to this need over nine elections, our team has created, packed, and distributed 34,000 door hanger bags to high schools and community partners:  B-PEP (Black-Political Empowerment Project), VEEEM (Voter Empowerment Education & Enrichment Movement), AKA ( Alpha Kappa Alpha  Sorority), JCC ( Jewish Community Center), West End P.O.W.E.R., and high schools like (PPS) Pittsburgh Public Schools. These grant-funded bags contain voter registration materials and our unique civic education infographics, plus more.

--Over 2000 bags:  In 2020 resulted in new voter registrations--like the 187 student registrations at Pittsburgh Public Schools. 

--3000 bags for the 2021 Municipal Elections to PPS high schools and community partners
--9000 bags for the 2022 Primary Federal and State Election--4000 for the Primary and 5000
for the 2022 General Election to PPS high schools, Westmoreland high schools, and community partners.
--8000 bags for the 2023 Primary and General Municipal Elections--for PPS and other high schools, and community partners including 700 bags for ex-incarcerated citizens in halfway houses.
--8000+ bags for 2024 Primary and General Federal & State Elections- assembled and distributed for PPS and other community partners, including halfway houses for reentering citizens.
--4000 bags for 2025 Primary and General Municipal Elections assembled and distributed to VIP (Voting is Power Coalition) and other community partners. Partner VEEEMPgh (Voting Encouragement, Education & Enrichment Movement) created a flyer on judicial elections and helped cover the cost of these bags.

Do you need DIGITAL RESOURCES?
During each election season, digital resources found on the

EXPLAINERS AND GRAPHICS web page are shared with broad coalitions of community partners.  

Explainers and Graphics