Girls Who Code Club
Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does. Club members build coding skills and community as they create a computer science impact project. This club is free for girls in grades 6-12. It meets at the Hansen Community Library on Saturday Oct. 23, Nov. 13 and Dec. 11 from 11 a.m. to noon.
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Family Reading Week — November 6-13, 2021
Join us for a KICKOFF PARTY on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with activities and books and MORE!!
The goals of Family Reading Week are:
- To emphasize the importance of daily family/caregiver reading time and its support of early childhood literacy.
- To connect families/caregivers of young children with the early literacy resources their local public and school libraries have available to help them prepare their child for school success.
- To help every family/caregiver obtain a public library card and visit a public and/or school library
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The Computer Lab re-opens on June 2. Adults only from 1 to 3 p.m. M, W & F. Kids can use the computers from 3 to 6 p.m. M,W & F and Sat from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Online Storytime Fridays through New Year’s
The Hansen Library will offer a 10- to 15-minute online storytime on the Hansen City Facebook page each Friday at 2 p.m. through New Year’s. We can do this thanks to book publishers allowing this use of their books. Storytime includes a couple books and a poem. Please join us.
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The following is a 4-min. video that does a good job explaining what coronavirus is, how it infects people and what happens after infection.
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