A state-of-the-art makerspace and STEM lab at the new Westfield Washington Public Library will be dedicated to Annie Gotwald, a 9-year-old Westfield girl who died Feb. 1, 2024, following an illness.
The Westfield Library Foundation will dedicate the space in honor of Annie during a ceremony Aug. 3 at the library, the day before what would have been her 10th birthday.
The Annie Gotwald Makerspace and STEM Lab will offer drop-in projects, individual STEM activities and scheduled classes. Annie’s parents said the third-grader 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 stated. “(Her teacher) put together activities and experiments for kids to do during that time…
