Structure Building!

The teen event this week was Structure Building!  They were tasked with three objectives: to make the strongest structure, the tallest structure, and the most creative structure.  The tricky part was that they were only given 20 spaghetti noodles, 10 marshmallows, 1 yard of string, and 2 ft of tape to make their structures.  We have some awesome teens and they walked away with some cool prizes. In Ironton, we even had some staff members and a parent join in on the fun!  You won't want to miss the next teen event: Build a Better Meal Challenge!

Steelville Competition

Bourbon Competition

Cuba Competition

She won a Pool Pass to the Cuba Pool!

Fredericktown Competition

John Jones, Tech Services, trying to build the tallest structure

Ironton Competition

We even let a parent join in!

Connie Reed, Administrative Assistant, trying to make the strongest structure

Construction Time!

We have had a blast this week during the Summer Reading Program.  We focused on building and construction this week.  The kids had an opportunity to make construction scenes with stickers, 3-D paper buildings, and their very own miniature tool boxes.  We tried painting the boxes at Ironton, but that got a little messy so for the rest of the week, we decorated the tool boxes with markers and stickers.  The kids seemed to really have fun with this! We also had materials that they could build with like legos, foam blocks, magna-tiles, K'nex kits, 3-D puzzles, and more! Check out some of the pics below:

2017 Summer Reading Opening Party!

We had a blast during the Opening Week of the 2017 Summer Reading Program!  We made Earth Mobiles, played with Legos and K’nex sets, sang and danced with Dino O’Dell, and signed up for the Summer Reading Club.  We also talked about different things that help make this world a better place.  Some of the things the kids said are: recycling, picking up trash, growing food, robots, and doing dishes.  Tune in next week to find out how our Construction Time programs go!