Helping Harry is an accessible STEAM challenge for engineers of all ages! Harry needs a safer place to perch, how high off the ground can you get this little puff with just a few materials? You can only use… 8 pipecleaners, 1 piece of tinfoil, 2 small pieces of cardstock, 2 cupcake liners, and 1… Continue Reading Helping Harry STEAM Challenge
Get creative and learn to code at home! Join Library programmer, Martin, and follow along with these step by step coding tutorials. This week we’ll make two micro:bits send messages back and forth using the built-in radio! Head to makecode.microbit.org and follow along!
You probably know the Itsy Bitsy Spider, but what about the Big, Gigantic Spider, the Teensy, Tiny Spider, and Eency the Spider?! Remixing classic nursery rhymes is a great way to introduce new vocabulary. So get creative and sing along.
Learn quick tips & tricks to help you design your next hackLAB project. This week’s topic: Using the clone tool in Inkscape
If you want to understand coding, you first need to understand patterning, so join Miss Laura this week for a precoding, patterning activity! What kind of patterns will you create?
Play is one of the primary ways young children learn about how the world works and learn language. Singing a playful song is always a great place to start and this nonsense, action, and movement rhyme is a perfect example!
Get creative and learn to code at home! Join Library programmer, Max, and follow along with these step by step coding tutorials. This week we’ll find out how to make sprites move in a circle! Head to arcade.makecode.com and follow along by making your own arcade game!
Did you know that… The sense of rhythm learned from listening to songs and rhymes helps children to identify patterns, like rhyming words, which will help them learn to read? Snuggle up with baby as we rhyme together!
Learn quick tips & tricks to help you design your next hackLAB project. This week’s topic: Creating a Cut Line in Inkscape
Ever heard of a “Non Newtonian Fluid?” What about OOBLECK? Get messy with Miss Laura today as she mixes cornstarch and water to create some awesome slime. Check out what happens as you move your hand slowly through the mixture. Then, what happens when you move your hand quickly through it?