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Round Rock Library (TX) Gets $49.5K Grant to Create After-School Maker Program

By on September 9, 2013 Leave a Comment
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The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has awarded the Round Rock Public Library System a grant of $49,500 to build Innovation Station, an after-school maker space and program that aims to engage middle schoolers in project-based science, technology, engineering, mathematics, art and design activities. The grant is part of a total $1.6 million in awards that TSLAC is distributing in fiscal 2014 to Texas library programs.

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Texas “Save Our Schools” Rally Draws Thousands

By Carolyn Foote on February 26, 2013 Leave a Comment
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An estimated 6,000 to 10,000 educators, parents, and students converged on the Texas State Capitol on Saturday, February 23, for the second annual “Save Our Schools” march and rally .The event pulls together a variety of participants seeking to urge the state’s legislature to fully fund education in the state.

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All the Books!

By on January 25, 2013

Ok, not all the books, but a whole cluster of the titles that we wanted to cover and hadn’t gotten to yet, tidily rounded up in one post for your perusal. In the last two weeks, I’ve read two more from the original contenda list (Pinned and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the [...]

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