Paper Spheres: Experimentation with Decoration
Leading up to the holidays, people are often busy buying gifts and decorating their homes. So, this year, I decided to offer different decorative crafts [...]
Libraries Step Up as Partners in Annual Celebration of Afterschool Programs!
This year, STAR Net partnered with the Afterschool Alliance to make library-afterschool partnerships a theme for Lights On Afterschool 2017, a nationwide event drawing attention [...]
THE FARTHEST: Voyager in Space – Available FREE to Libraries!
Following a successful nationwide campaign of free public screenings arranged through the NASA Museum Alliance, and two national public television broadcasts, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios [...]
When the Sun Goes Dark Featured in the Best of the Year Science Books for Children and Students
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Press has proudly announced that its children’s book When the Sun Goes Dark by Andrew Fraknoi and Dennis Schatz [...]
Coding at the Library
As part of our commitment to digital literacy, Skokie Public Library began offering a drop-in, one-hour coding program twice a month for kids in grades [...]
Optimizing Layering for Program Success
Guest blog by David Janning and Joanna Ritchie (Chula Vista Library, a NASA@ My Library Partner) Street fair outreach event with both a STEAM activity booth and [...]