

Approximately 80 business, education and legislative leaders attended The Education Alliance’s EDTalks: Connecting Education, Jobs and Our Future event on Thursday at The Capitol Theatre.
EDTalks is an education-based speaker series being held across
“For the last several years, state leaders have been working to improve and diversify
Thursday’s event featured three speakers: Gail Adams, 2015 WV Teacher of the Year, Alison Irvin, Wheeling Park High School Senior, and Illah Nourbakhsh, Carnegie Mellon Professor of Robotics. They each shared innovative ideas from their unique perspectives on how we can better connect education, jobs and our state’s future.
To view the video recordings of the Wheeling EDTalks or for more information, visit EducationAlliance.org/EDTalks or contact The Education Alliance at 866-314-KIDS.