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Tag: Coding

May 2, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

Author Molly E. Lee stops by to talk about hackers, coding, gender bias, and her new book, ASK ME ANYTHING

In Molly E. Lee's forthcoming novel, ASK ME ANYTHING, a young hacker, Amber, steps up to biases and gender stereotypes determined to prove them wrong.

August 29, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS

MakerSpace: DIY Games

We host a monthly teen videogaming program at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County and we recently bought a Nintendo Switch to add to our array of video gaming equipment. I’ll talk more about the Switch soon, but as a new system it isn’t cheap and the games that you can buy […]

March 9, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Secrets and Sequences: Secret Coders by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes, a guest post by Callum (age 10)

If you follow me on Twitter (@CiteSomething), then you’re familiar with my extremely entertaining 10-year-old son, Callum. He’s a big fan of graphic novels and recently has started pulling books out of my TBR pile. It’s fun to get book mail and have so much of it either appeal now to him or know it […]

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MakerSpace: Challenge Cards, getting teens to try new activities in the Teen MakerSpace

May 26, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

We are having tremendous success with our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) and are very excited to see the teens in our community using the space and learning new things. We have learned that certain items are more popular than others, with the button makers and 3D […]

MakerSpace: Learning to Code in Scratch

May 23, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

We set out with several goals in mind when created the Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County in Ohio. One of those goals was to engage our teens in learning how to code. We created a bank of iPad stations to help facilitate this goal and pre-loaded it with […]

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