Teen Tech Week

After literally months of preparation, Teen Tech Week is finally here! Now if you’ve been paying attention to my previous blog or reading the Zionsville Star newspaper, I will consider you a genius and say that you have rockin’ awesome current events skills. Or, if you have been living under a rock and are completely oblivious to the above information, just click on the links (we put them there for a reason). After several days of running on empty and refueling on coffee, I’m finally able to sit down and tell you about the best part of Teen Tech Week. On Wednesday sixteen teens showed up to the Make Your Own Robot Keychain Program. These robots are extra special because they have light up LED components. Our teens not only made some really, really cool key chains, but they are the very first teens to participate in the Library’s first ever social experiment.
Teens took photos of their critters (because not everyone made a robot and that was awesome and very creative) and these photos will be posted on the Library’s Facebook page. On that page you will find a status update, which is the start of a story about the critters. Each teen in the program will be going online and commenting on the status to create a story. Those teens not having Facebook accounts will contact me, and I will be adding to the story on their behalf. So each day, the story will become more and more developed and by the beginning of next week, our teens will have written their own story all on Facebook! Now, if you don’t have Facebook, don’t worry. You will be able to find the story right here on our blog early next week and see how the teens right here in Zionsville are using technology to participate in library programs from the comfort of their own home. See you soon!