At South Elementary, the library was recently turned into a temporary arcade showcasing the handiwork that the school’s sixth graders created during their MakerSpace time each week.
South Elementary students play Whack-a-Mole in the library’s temporary arcade. (Photo by Tony Pilkington/ Breckenridge Texan)
Each week, groups of sixth grade students visit the library to take part in the MakerSpace program, which allows the kids to use a variety of tools and materials to create projects.
Last year, South librarian Abby Moore had the idea to do a cardboard arcade after she saw a documentary at cainesarcade.com. The film is the true story of a little boy in California who built a cardboard arcade in his dad’s shop. After a filmmaker visited the shop and saw the arcade, he made a documentary about it. The film, “Caine’s Arcade,” went viral and inspired a scholarship fund, a…
