Makerspace
Our library has so many ways to create and be inspired!
Glowforge
The Glowforge 3D laser printer creates beautiful things at the push of a button. You can make an endless variety of useful, beautiful, and practical things from a bunch of different materials like wood, leather, felt, fabric, acrylic, paper, and more. With Glowforge, you’ll put a piece of material like leather, wood, or acrylic in the machine and it carves out your product using laser light. The technical name for the category of tools that includes Glowforge is a CNC laser cutter engraver, but that's a mouthful, so we call it a 3D laser printer.
3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional objects from a digital file. The creation of a 3D printed object is achieved using additive processes. In an additive process an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly sliced cross-section of the object.
Create a project using Tinkercad and send your file to Mrs. Chetto to print!
Makerbot Sketch 3D Printer
Cricut Maker
A Cricut is an electronic cutting machine that can cut all sorts of designs from materials like paper, vinyl, card stock, and iron-on transfers. You can use the Cricut to cut just about anything you would typically cut with scissors or an X-acto knife. That said, a Cricut can cut with much more precision and speed than would ever be achievable by hand! Machines like the Cricut are sometimes called die-cutter machines or craft plotters.
Our library has permanent vinyl, semi-permanent vinyl, and heat transfer vinyl for small projects. You can also bring in your own material to work with!
An embroidery machine uses a needle and thread to stitch a design onto an embroidery blank, which can be anything from cotton fabric to cardstock paper. Students can create their own designs and embroider them onto patches, shirts, hats, the possibilities are endless!
See Mrs. Chetto for how to get started!
Embroidery Machine
Robotics and Coding
Learn to code and have fun with one of the library robots or coding programs! Available for a variety of skill and ability levels.
Dash and Dot Wonderbot
Botley 2.0 Screenfree Robot
Makey Makey
Snap Circuits
Crafting and Art
Arts and crafts provide a wealth of benefits for children, both in the short and long term. From developing problem solving skills to improving mental health, teamwork and communication skills, arts and crafts offer children a chance to learn and grow in a fun and creative environment.
Perler Beads
Resin
Book Folding
Shrinky Dinks
Play and Learn
Board games help children learn important social skills such as waiting, turn taking, sharing, how to cope with losing, making conversation, problem solving, compromising, collaborating and being flexible. Our board game collection includes a variety of titles and games for ages 3 and up!
Board Games
Card Games
MagnaTiles
K'nex