The Library has been invited to participate in the National Day of Making and the White House Maker Faire. Join friends and colleagues for a special MakerSpace Open House on Wednesday, June 18, from 11 am to 7:30 pm. Tours of the recently installed Design-Thinking Center will be offered, as well as demonstrations of 3D printing. Explore making by creating musical instruments with Makey Makeys and Scratch, and attend a C coding workshop. Learn how to use the Makerbot scanner to scan objects for 3D printing.
The US Embassy invited the Westport Library to teach maker skills and concepts to librarians in Moscow in February; we will repeat some parts of these workshops in the MakerSpace . Through a one-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services we have been exploring how Making in Libraries provides an opportunity to "retinker" libraries!