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Steam programming
The Guadalupe Branch Library offers a variety of traditional programs, including storytime, movies, and games, alongside newer initiatives like the Young Innovators Club and STEM-focused activities. There has been a significant increase in circulation (14.15%) and in-house library customers (24.73%), indicating growing community engagement. The library hosted 106 programs with a total attendance of 2,394, highlighting its outreach and effectiveness in serving the community.
Steam programming
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- 2. Traditional Library Programs Storytime Movies Games
- 3. Story Time +Nutrition = Story Brunch
- 4. Movies + DIY= Young Makers
- 5. Movies + ScavengerHunt + Technology = Young Explorers
- 6. LEGO Club STEAMUp Technology Club Adding more STEAM
- 7. STEM & MAKERprogramming Young Innovators Club (3D Design, 3D Printing & eTextile) GEMS (Girls in Engineering Math and Science) MAKER Camp
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- 10. Circulation Increased 14.15% In-house library customers increased 24.73 % Worth Trying something new!
- 11. Partnerships Small Grants/ Big Ideas Community Involvement
- 12. 106 programs 2394attended ₵.39 per library customer
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Editor's Notes
- #2 The collection is only about 10,000 items, the population is almost 6,000, 60% are Yaqui Tribal members. Square foot & staff, well I don’t even want to talk about that, it’s getting very depressing and you are not here for that. The main reason I’m here is to encourage you, your staff or your library director to give it a try. If you have resources great! That helps (a lot), but if you don’t have them. You can still make great programs and believe me the end results are worth the try.
- #3 Knowing that Guadalupe is/was a very traditional library, the introduction of STE[+A]M and the MAKER Movement was very gentle. This process started 10 months ago using these traditional programs with a twist.
- #4 We created “Story-Bruch” by including nutritious snacks based on the main character of one of the books. We found out that in many cases children in our community never tried some fruits and vegetables that we eat every day, for instance spinach, but they eat them and enjoy the entire experience. We have received some remarks from Moms that have told us that their kids now eat some vegetables. As a matter of fact, this program has now been adopted by the Head Start Home Visitation Program of Parenting Arizona.
- #5 Team work, leadership, creativity, and fun! The main elements to a successful program. Before watching the movie “CARS” kids formed teams and created their own Cardboard car seat. The kids were supposed to seat on their boxcars to watch the movie, but they were so cute that kids didn’t want to seat and ruin them. So we put them on display at the library for a week.
- #6 In this case, we gave the teens the opportunity to use new technology to explore, to play, and to create. We created a movie scavenger hunt, every 10 to 15 minutes a QR Code popped and stopped the movie, teens had to use their iPads QR App and do some research using the library electronic resources. No Wikipedia or google allowed to be able to win a prize. In Guadalupe, 35% of the population live under poverty line. Providing with iPads and exploring with QR codes it’s a treat for them.
- #7 The first program we added was the LEGO Club, I know this is not new by any means, but about 90% of Guadalupe kids had never played LEGOs in their lives.
- #8 Seeing all the interest shown by the community, we began implementing, 3D printer and MAKER programs.
- #9 MAKER Camp thru Google Hangouts. We will use a laptop with a projector and iPads for participants and Intel volunteers.
- #10 In January one of our Teen Volunteers got a 3D Printer for Christmas and she offered to give a demonstration to tweens and teens. The program was a huge success that we schedule a second one for the entire family and three weeks ago we even have a workshop, where kids learned how to use TinkerCAD and then printed their designs. That program was supper fun. We also participated at the 5th Annual Teen Leadership Conference where about 90 teens from different Tribes where able to attend a 3D printer demonstration and the only 20 selected for a workshop. Our Teen Volunteer was also feature in the Arizona Republic last march.
- #15 Thank you very much