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Site Update: Champaign Public Library

Sarah, our Community Ambassador at Champaign Public Library, has stayed at CPL and continues to work with teens. She has provided us a short update on the progress since the grant concluded in April 2015. (more…)

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CPL Update (with photos!)

Lots of great work has been happening in the Teen Space at the Champaign Public Library. Our Community Ambassador, Sarah, has been able to capture these moments on camera. Enjoy! (more…)

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Creating jewelry in CPL’s Teen Space

Throughout this grant, the Community Ambassadors have been faced with the challenge of helping our sites find “projects that matter.” No two sites will have identical “projects that matter” because each site has unique individuals who have varying interests. We as Community Ambassadors can share ideas but ultimately, each of us listens to our sites […]

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More stickers at Champaign Public!

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

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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Sticker Creation at Champaign Public Library Teen Space

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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Teen Space at 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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Kids as Teachers at the 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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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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