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Discover Tech opens at Kokomo-Howard County Public Library
February 27, 2017 – Discover Tech: Engineers Make a World of Difference opened at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library’s south branch Saturday, giving library visitors a chance to explore, play and gain hands-on knowledge of engineering.
Winfield lands NASA tour exhibit
January 19, 2017 – “Discover NASA: From Our Town to Outer Space” is a national traveling exhibition coming Feb. 1 to the Winfield Public Library, where it remains on display through April 19.
Library Chosen For NASA Program
January 17, 2017 – Monmouth Public Library hopes to provide experiences that are out of this world — with a little help from NASA. Monmouth was one of three libraries across the country to be chosen for the NASA@ My Library program.
Valley library system one of three in nation to pilot new NASA education program
December 8, 2016 – This week the Valley of the Tetons libraries began working with an educational program sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA. The program is called “NASA @ My Library,” and is run by the Space Science Institute and the nonprofit Starnet, based in Boulder, Colorado.
NFK Dreams: New library exhibit aims for the stars
November 8, 2016 – Libraries are famous for bringing us the world, but now at Slover they’re also bringing us the stars. For the next couple months “Discover NASA: From Our Town to Outer Space” turns the library into Space Station Norfolk.
Prepare Your Library for the 2017 Solar Eclipse
September 20, 2016 – Are you ready for the celestial event of the century? In just over a year from now, on August 21, 2017, the shadow of the moon will sweep across the United States from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in a spectacle that hasn’t occurred in decades.
Discover NASA exhibit at East Meadow Library is out of this world
August 16, 2016 – The Discover NASA exhibit has launched at the East Meadow Public Library, and the goal is to give visitors a greater appreciation of space exploration.
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Register Your Library with STAR_Net for the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
August 10, 2016 – Are you ready for the celestial event of the century? In just over a year from now, on August 21, 2017, the shadow of the moon will sweep across the United States from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in a spectacle that hasn’t occurred in decades.
Gail Borden space exhibit launches Elgin twins into tech world
June 3, 2016 – In 2007, twins Kristen and Matthew McKellar were 10 year olds who participated in a live conversation with NASA astronauts on the International Space Station as part of Gail Borden Public Library’s SPACE: Dare to Dream summer exhibit…
National traveling exhibition, ‘Discover Earth: Our Changing Planet,’ comes to BCPL Scheben Branch
May 3, 2016 – Discover Earth: Our Changing Planet, a national traveling exhibition exploring a global view of our changing environment, will be on display at Boone County Public Library, Scheben Branch in Union, from May 14 to August 5…
NASA communicator, effects maker kick off Gail Borden exhibit about space
April 18, 2016 – Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin kicked off a new exhibit about outer space by hosting lectures by a Hollywood special-effects producer and an Elgin native who makes his living communicating with people in space…
Discover Tech Exhibit Kicks Off At Mansfield Library
April 17, 2016 – The Mansfield-Richland County Public Library debuted the Discover Tech exhibit over the weekend which showcased robots, Legos, and many other exhibits to expose children to the rapidly growing technology world….
‘Discover Earth’ exhibit at Blount County library lets kids explore science
February 12, 2016 – Forecast the weather in Florida 5,000 years from now. Dig up fossils. Answer a weather quiz hosted by a computerized polar bear. A new traveling exhibit at the Blount County Public Library invites children and adults to explore earth science through…
