Lab to be named in honor of young Westfield resident Annie Gotwald
The Westfield Library Foundation (WLF) has announced the dedication of its Makerspace and STEM Lab in honor of Annie Gotwald.
The dedication ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at the new Westfield Washington Public Library – the day before what would have been Annie’s 10th birthday.
The Annie Gotwald Makerspace and STEM Lab will offer drop-in projects, individual STEM activities, and scheduled classes to library patrons. Gotwald, a Westfield resident who passed away unexpectedly in February, loved science and math and dreamed of one day becoming a NASA engineer.
“Annie was going into kindergarten when the pandemic hit,” her father Greg Gotwald, a graduate of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, explained. “Rose put together activities and experiments for kids to do during that time and…
