When you are young, the science bug might bite you at any time. For a young boy named Sonny Viscelli, it happened during a visit to the Tinker Lab at the Philadelphia Science Festival on Saturday. There he was so inspired to learn all about robotics that he and his family returned to the festival a day later.

On Sunday, Sonny and his father, Steve, were found at Pennovation Center. Here they worked hard on a bee-shaped robot made of items found in the trash — or a "trash bot," for short.

The architectural team that transformed a Grays Ferry paint laboratory into an idea laboratory has received a high honor from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.

The alliance has bestowed its 2017 Preservation Achievement Grand Jury Award upon Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) of New York and Philadelphia-based KSS Architects, who worked jointly on the Pennovation Center project.

This is a guest post by FemmeHacks organizer Andrea Baric.

I was frustrated my freshman year.

It was hard to find a group of women in computer science to form study groups with or to chat with about some of the daily challenges we faced in a mostly male environment — the fact that there might sometimes be more Daves than women in our computing design class.

At Penn's research hub, Wolf spoke about his budget proposal and job creation. BioBots and COSY piqued his interest.

By Roberto Torres / REPORTER

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf made a pretty low-key visit to Pennovation yesterday.

Startups like Iqinetics, Cosy and Biobots were in the spotlight during his visit.

BY FABIOLA CINEAS   MARCH 30, 2017 AT 2:21 PM

Philadelphia Magazine

Funding the state’s entrepreneurs is one part of Governor Wolf’s new budget proposal for Pennsylvania, and he made a stop in Philly on Wednesday to have a look at exactly the kind of innovation he’d like to support.

“The Pennovation Center design represents a collective effort and significant, highly visible leap forward in the larger vision of planning the entire 23-acre Pennovation Works community,” said Anne Papageorge, Penn’s Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services. “Its architecture, landscape, signage and programming build on the past while reflecting the new discoveries and ventures taking place within.”

Mar 29, 2017, 7:46am EDT

Michelle Caffrey

Philadelphia Business Journal

It’s a brisk Friday afternoon at the a cluster of offices and lab spaces on Gray’s Ferry Avenue known as Pennovation Works, and tucked in the basement of a nondescript building on the 23-acre campus, Teri Dankovich is focused.

Clad in a white lab jacket and lavender-colored rubber gloves, the co-founder and CTO of Folia Water is conducting quality control tests for the startup's flagship product, a paper water filter that purifies drinking water for a penny a day per person.

By Cas Proffitt

 March 18, 2017

Oncora Medical's David Lindsay has the lowdown on the region's health IT ambassadors.

By David Lindsay / GUEST

March 17, 2017

by Diane Mastrull, STAFF WRITER  dmastrull@phillynews.com

The time eventually comes when the founder of a start-up takes a leap of faith – quitting school or a full-time job to devote all efforts to the entrepreneurial endeavor.