MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – The Peter White Public Library is integrating STEM education into its children’s resource center.
The “build imagination box” was presented to the library this morning by the Michigan Architectural Foundation.
It was funded by the MAF, the Rae Dumke Development Fund, the Baldwin Public Library and the AIA Upper Peninsula.
The imagination box will be available for free play in the maker’s space towards the start of the school year.
Sarah Rehborg, the children’s librarian, says the hold out is because the library is still trying to avoid multi-touch surfaces with the younger children.
The gifted imagination box includes toys, building blocks and other play materials that foster creativity and cognitive development.
“I think an important part of it is, as they build, they might find some of these things, well, maybe too tall. It’s kind of leaning over,…
