Challenge brings high school students together at Pitt to discuss water problems Share this post About 60 students from four local high schools collaborated in a two-day session this month at the University of Pittsburgh to come up with ideas and create awareness for what has become a global water crisis. Students from Mt. Lebanon, Chartiers Valley, McKeesport Area and Elizabeth Forward took part in the Water Design Challenge, held March 11-12 in the William Pitt Student Union.