Petterson S. Weaver

Patterson Weaver was born in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Upper St. Clair High School. He then attended Penn State University where he majored in Political Science with minors in both Economics and Religious Studies, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2001. During his college years, Patterson did volunteer work with Young Life, an international Christian outreach to high school students. This experience combined with his course work developed in him a desire to use his political science background to teach social studies at the high school level. To prepare, he pursued a Master’s of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh graduating in 2002 with a 4.0 GPA. He was honored as a Dean’s Teaching Fellow.