Teen Summer Reading July 21th - August 18th

Robots, Electronics and More!

 

On Friday, July 25th at 2:00 pm we'll have Lego Robotics with Wayne Moulton of New Heights Adventures for Teens and The Sages of RPG.This event is FULL but please add your name to our list as we may have space available on the day of the event.

Stop by any time July 21st through August 18th and make a Circuit Creature in the Teen Area. 

Supplies will be available in the Teen Area.Take home your very own beastie bot.

We'll also be offering Bristle Bots July 30th 2-3:30 pm in the Lane Room. The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor. The result? Serious fun.

Squishy Circuits August 6th 2-3:30 pm in the Lane Room. Free snacks and drinks will be available! 
Use homemade conductive and resistant play-doh to build electronic sculptures that light up, move, and make sounds. Anyone who has ever tasted play-doh knows that it’s a salty substance. The salt allows electricity to flow through the dough. With the addition of a homemade dough that substitutes sugar for salt, the dough becomes resistive instead, and complex circuits can be created to power all kinds of objects. We use battery packs, LED lights, hobby motors, and buzzers to explore electricity in a fun, hands-on way.

Featured Book: 

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

by Prudence Shen & Faith Erin Hicks

Read our featured graphic novel and win additional raffle tickets for our grand finale drawing. Located at the main desk or in the teen area.

You wouldn’t expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie’s the laid-back captain of the basketball team, and Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikely—until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders. At stake is funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms—but not both.

It's only going to get worse: after both parties are stripped of their funding on grounds of abominable misbehavior, Nate enrolls the club's robot in a battlebot competition in a desperate bid for prize money. Bad sportsmanship? Sure. Chainsaws? Why not. Running away from home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot death match? Of course! In Faith Erin Hicks' and Prudence Shen's world of high school class warfare and robot death matches. Nothing can possibly go wrong.

All Summer Long Join us for Daily Events

Mondays 6:30-7:30 pm; We’ll play Kickball at the Academy with a Water Balloon twist. Sign-ups and waiver required. Meet at the Library.

 

Tuesdays 12:30-1:30 pm; We’ll meet in the Teen Area to do the weekly Bingo Card Drawing over a bowl of Ice Cream.






Fridays 2-3:30pm; We’ll have Xbox 360 Gaming in the Lane Room.

Read great books, attend great programs, earn raffle tickets for weekly and monthly drawings! All raffle tickets will be entered into our final drawing for iPad Minis and tickets to Canobie Lake Park.