Door decorating contest- what can we do, What Can We Dooooo? Then it hit me – as we are putting together a renewed number of the WHS Girls Who Code Club students together – we wanted to try something different. a few weeks later, days and circuits and a closed circuit, chibi lights and – well – YES!

In ONE night ladies – AND one male student NOT a girl named Travis, all pitched in and put a STEAM idea together and wanted their window display to be just that, a display of what thinking outside of the box meant as the past week. CSED week came and went but DO NOT THINK for one nanosecond the Girls Who Code of Woodbridge High were sitting back on their laurels, lol. 

When I asked who jumped out to them they said:

and we put together a plan for that door decorating contest that would put them outside of their comfort zone- ELECTRICITY and LIGHTS – and one one night – they threw themselves into the mix, Girls Who Code style. 🙂 Even more impressive was the way one lone programming individual, not a Girl, jumped in to support them – thank you Travis!

Along the same time, this article came out – and as a librarian, just having the chance to recently meet with representatives from every state in the U.S and hearing how often librarians are questioned about why their profession should be a profession, I realized this. Many do not realize school librarians and libraries, are connectors, just liked close circuit projects. What makes the light go on for students?

The spaces that exist in school librarians, allow young ladies to dream to put into existence those dreams, and to share those dream. Within the span on ONE day, we had students attacking puzzles and using those thinking skills amid a school day, designing and modifying 3D printer objects and using THOSE thinking skills, along with future engineers, coding gurus, science and math interested individuals and THJAT my friend is what librarians are all about- we need to remind people school libraries are HUBS of connectivity, and we need to support them just as the state if Illinois is – Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Florida, Utah, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, we ALL have school librarians and school librarians that need support, a chance to grow the spaces their students needs to find, and spaces for students to continue to feel as if they can create, grow and share.

It seems as if given a chance, students can see what is in a snow globe like world, and break out and apply all to the world around them,

and make dreaming ideas a reality. Their comment about school librarians and libraries – that they did not KNOW that such things occurred in a library ring true as many do not HAVE school librarians and school libraries to see what can occur. Let’s change that for them now, which ultimately, can be the best present they could receive this year!