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More stickers at Champaign Public!

By on March 3, 2015 in Champaign Public Library

Back in January, Sarah and Kim worked with teens at the Champaign Public Library to create some stickers using the Silhouette cameo machine for their computer cart. Since then, the teens have made even more stickers. Sarah shared some pictures that we’d like to share with you!

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Finished project at CPL

By on February 25, 2015 in Champaign Public Library

One of the advantages of spending around 12 hours at our sites each week is that we are able to develop relationships with the students we work with. These relationships allow us to help the students work on projects that extend over multiple days. Sarah, over at Champaign Public Library, just sent a photo of […]

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Valentine’s Day Card Making at UNCC

By on February 15, 2015 in Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center

UNCC decided to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Friday the 13th with some special activities. One of our stations was using our graphic tablets to make Valentine’s Day cards. Based on time and ease of use, the kids used the open source software, PaintTool Sai, to create the cards. It’s a great program to just open […]

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Sticker Creation at Champaign Public Library Teen Space

By on January 24, 2015 in Champaign Public Library, Workshop

On Friday, Community Ambassadors Sarah and Kim, worked with the Champaign Public Library teens to design stickers for their computer cart. At first, Sarah worked with the teens to choose a color scheme for their space. The teens ended up deciding on a light blue, red, silver, and black (in line with the Captain America […]

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Roblox Friday at UNCC

By on January 23, 2015 in Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center

The most popular game at UNCC during Free Time is Roblox. Similar to Minecraft, Roblox uses Lego-like figures to move around thousands of games. These games range from “Work at a Pizza Place” to SpongeBob and everything in between. During the past couple of months, I (Hailley) have been working with them to create accounts. […]

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Teen Space at Champaign Public Library

By on January 21, 2015 in Champaign Public Library

Sarah, our Community Ambassador at the Champaign Public Library, passed along some great photos of the Teen Space we wanted to share.

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Two Quarters In — What we’ve been up to

By on January 20, 2015 in Champaign Public Library, Metrics, Tap In Leadership Academy, Teen Open Lab, The Urbana Free Library, Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center

The metrics for the second quarter were due in early January and we are happy to report the following numbers: General Access to computers (unduplicated):   * Target proposed in grant: 11325   * Q1 report: 4872   * Q2 report: 4728   * Current total: 9600 Training participants (unduplicated):   * Target proposed in grant: 780   * Q1 report: […]

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Kids as Teachers at the Champaign Public Library

By on January 18, 2015 in Champaign Public Library

Written by Sarah, the Community Ambassador at the Champaign Public Library One thing that I particularly like about Champaign is how willing the kids are to teach what they’ve learned.  This is something that happens on a very regular basis, but on Friday one of the librarians said I should absolutely make sure to talk about […]

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Technology and equipment added in 2014

By on January 13, 2015 in Champaign Public Library, Metrics, Tap In Leadership Academy, The Urbana Free Library, Urbana Neighborhood Connection Center

One of our team members, Jeff Ginger, complied a report on the number of computers installed as well as additional technology placed at our sites from August until December 2014. These computers and kits allowed us to continue our programming and build community-based collaborative spaces. We acquired, updated, imaged and installed 83 computers at all […]

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Tinkercad at the Teen Open Lab

By on January 9, 2015 in Teen Open Lab

A teen (middle school aged) came into The Urbana Free Library’s Teen Open Lab one day looking to 3D print something. Usually, teens go to Thingiverse to find an object that has been designed by someone else. But this boy knew exactly what he wanted to make and wanted to design it himself. Kim, the […]

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