Mount Prospect Library Pioneers Youth Science Program
Byline: Submitted by Mount Prospect Public Library
A program developed at the Mount Prospect Public Library to generate early interest in math and science has proved so successful that it is being expanded into an eight-state region.
Through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-Chicago Section, a prototype project grant made it possible for librarians at the Mount Prospect Public Library to create "Science-to-Go" engineering kits and a Mad Scientist Club. The kits proved so popular with library patrons and the demand was so high that the project is being expanded throughout the Midwest.
"This is the classic example of taking something …
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Publication information:
Article title: Mount Prospect Library Pioneers Youth Science Program.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL).
Publication date: May 22, 2012.
Page number: 3.
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