by Alycin Bektesh, Reporter at Aspen Public Radio
The Makerspace in Garfield Public Libraries’ Carbondale branch provides children use of iPads, laptops and a 3D printer.
About 30 children — mostly middle school aged — are engrossed in their laptops and have headphones on. One young boy has crawled into a dark corner underneath a piano — you can just make out the outline of his face from the glowing blue of the iPad he holds. In the center of the room is Jeannine Stickle, youth services manager for the Garfield County Library District.
She tells the crowd that today, for Teen Tech Week, there is a special stop-motion animation station set up. There are iPads on tripods, set up with an app that can blend a series of photographs into an animated movie. There is also playdough, a zoos’-worth of small rubber animals and a green screen.
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