This February, teams of middle-school students arrived at Flushing Library for the QPL FIRST LEGO League Robotics Tournament. This exciting day involved parents and siblings as the audience for an event full of innovation and teamwork. The students spent 16 weeks preparing for…
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For the past three years, the Queens Public Library Foundation has invited QPL staff members to submit ideas for new and innovative programs that address the specific needs of their communities. This October, the 2019 Innovation Fund awarded grants of up to $10,000 each to…
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Above: Kids make paper by hand in Week 3 of our Book Creation Workshop. For the past two years, Queens Public Library Foundation’s Innovation Fund has supported creative initiatives at the libraries with awards of up to $10,000 each. In the Fund’s second year, winning projects…
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Queens Library is developing a new program to introduce kids in our community to engineering projects that they will tackle through innovation and teamwork. Children in grades 4-8 can join LEGO robotics teams at eight participating libraries and become part of the Queens…
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