Manitowoc Public Library is thrilled to welcome tinkerers, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts to The Idea Box: MPL’s new space dedicated to building, making and exploring technology.
Generously funded by the West Foundation, The Idea Box is a makerspace filled with a range of high-tech and low-tech tools and gadgets — an amazing laser-cutting machine, a sound booth, 3D printing tools, Cricut (an incredible cutting machine that allows the user to create more things than we could possibly list here), sewing machines and much more!
The addition of The Idea Box is part of the library’s first-floor redesign efforts and is one of many new amenities targeted at meeting the changing needs of our dynamic community.
In a time when it seems like kids get to have all the fun, The Idea Box is primarily meant to engage and inspire adults and teens, fueling creativity and even the…