Instead of a lab area inside the library, makerspaces are available as packaged kits to take home with all necessary supplies. Levels of interaction range from paper snowflake designs to light circuit cards for Valentine’s and Mother’s day.
Starting this January, the DHS library has hosted makerspace kits available to all students, with different kits for different themes every month.
The cards come with miniature LED lights, batteries, copper tape, and plans for a circuit inside the card. For spring, March and April’s kits featured a plant pot with macrame and a plant for it respectively.
The kits are handed out outside the library or can be reserved ahead of time through a Google Form, and can be picked up after school or during lunches. Connected learners can also schedule appointments to come up to school to pick up kits, just as they would for checking out books.
