On March 10, 2015, the Digital Literacy for All Learners project team participated in the seventh annual Public Engagement Symposium. The theme of the symposium was “Changing lives through engagement.” We were more broadly represented by Ctrl-Shift, a local group made up of school teachers, community members, entrepreneurs, and University of Illinois representatives who are interested […]
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Two Quarters In — What we’ve been up to
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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Tinkercad at the 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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First Semester Kit Update
Post written by Jeff Ginger, who helped facilitate the purchase of equipment for our grant sites. Fall semester has been a rush of infrastructure development at all of the DCEO sites. We quickly established computer labs and comprehensive software arrangements for each location so they could support programming of many kinds, from computer basics to […]
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Ardunio Snowman at Teen Open Lab
We are reaching some of the most underserved youth in our community to develop the core computational thinking skills needed for them to participate fully in STEM-related fields. One of the events was making dancing snowmen with Arduino microcontrollers and servos, which Community Ambassador, Kim Naples, did extensive preparation for. She sought the assistance and […]
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Silhouette machine and teens at Teen Open Lab
One of Kim’s favorite tools to work on at The Urbana Free Library’s Teen Open Lab is the Silhouette cutting machine. Teenagers use this tool to make stickers, cards, drawings, and patterns for the sewing machine. One day, two middle school girls came in that wanted to make stickers for their school folders. They had […]
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