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Learning through play

Learning through play

With Microsoft, Amazon, Google and many other companies based in Washington we are a technology state. Washington State is endlessly hungry for skilled technology workers and STEM learning is an important component of educating our future workforce.  The State Library, seeing this need, has invested in many STEM kits which we circulate to interested libraries around Washington. Coding and robotics are work skills that are highly prized, and one of our original, and very popular kits, Lego Mindstorms teaches these…

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La Connor Regional Library teams with NASA

La Connor Regional Library teams with NASA

The La Conner Regional Library was awarded a pilot project from the Aerospace and Biotechnology Academy of NASA. The Aerospace and Biotechnology Academy pilot project will train the La Conner Regional Library staff to serve as a resource to assist middle school students explore science through robotics. The La Conner Regional Library will receive kits which will be checked out to middle school teachers whom the library will recruit. The pilot will run from October through December of this year….

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