Aubrey White

The Carson City Library is joining libraries around the state in petitioning the Legislature for a buffer against proposed federal cuts, which would cost Nevada libraries $3.5 million over the biennium.

Rosa Munguia and her children Kimberly, 9, and Lorenzo Lopez, 5, talk with Carson City Librarian Aubrey White during an Early Childhood Expo on Saturday at the Boys and Girls Club of Western Nevada. The Carson City Early Childhood Advisory Council holds the annual event to provide information to families about early childhood resources in Carson City.

Carson City Library’s NCLab Coding Camps have been named a top 10 summer learning program by the Young Adult Library Services Association.

“Everyone at the Carson City Library is so grateful for this national recognition,” said Carson City Library Director Sena Loyd. “We strive to make the library an active place of learning for the community."

Registration is now open for the Carson City Library’s Summer Learning Challenge, which is open to all ages and encourages participants to read as well as develop other skills.

Aaron Portillo and Hunter Ketcham, both 14, work on the Carson City Library scavenger hunt with Aubrey White, Youth Services Library Assistant, on Thursday, April 14, 2016. The library hosted events and displays including the scavenger hunt, book buffet, guess the librarian baby pictures and guess the bookworms in celebration of National Library Week with the American Library Association.

Elisa Seiler, with the Carson City Library, reads in Spanish to students in the Parks and Recreation after-school program at Mark Twain Elementary School in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. As part of a Diversity in Action grant from the Nevada State Library and Archives, librarians will read a story in English and Spanish at four elementary schools through April. In the second photo, Carson City Library Assistant Aubrey White helps Grayden Shalvoy, 5, make a paper sombrero at the after-school program.

Aubrey White, assistant youth librarian, teaches Reese MacKenzie, left, and Tarah Wright, both 11, during a coding and 3–D modeling camp at the Carson City Library in Carson City, Nev., on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. The camp curriculum, available through NCLab, includes programming language, games and tournaments.

Students can learn coding and 3-D modeling at a camp offered at the Carson City Library over spring break next week. Sixth- through eighth-graders can attend the Tuesday camp while a camp for fourth- and fifth-graders will be held Thursday. Both camps will run 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Digitorium. Breakfast and lunch will be provided both days.

Anthony Aguilar and Jack Wilson, both 13-year-old eighth-graders at Eagle Valley Middle School gave a demonstration on how to work a robotic arm at the annual Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math Night.

“You can move it up or down or also turn the rotation of the claw,” explained Anthony. He showed how to pick up different items with it.

Library Assistant Aubrey White talks to teens, from left, Anu Praveen, Seth Taylor and Jessica Artz about using the 3D printer during a Habits of Mind(craft) workshop at the Carson City Library in Carson City, Nev., on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016. The library hosts two Saturday workshops each month where students use Mindcraft as a fun platform to apply science, technology, engineering, artistic and math skills.

Halen Harrison, 10, spent a recent Saturday afternoon building a civilization with his friends. “We’re mining minerals and diamonds and emeralds and stuff,” he said. “I like working with other people like this. It’s exciting.”

Harrison is one of several participants in the Carson City Library’s Habits of Mind (Craft), where youth are invited to play the adventuring video game Minecraft that allows them to collaborate in building structures as well as entire communities.

Assistant Librarian Aubrey White sorts through several thousand Magic The Gathering cards at the Carson City Library in Carson City, Nev. DK's Sierra Mountain Comics donated the trading card game to the library teen group called The Game Corner.

More than 30 local kids participated in an egg drop competition Saturday at the Carson City Library. The contest involved creating protective packaging for an uncooked egg, which was then dropped from the roof.

Prizes were awarded for creativity and successfully protecting the egg. The month-long Discover Tech exhibit, which introduces kids to all aspects of engineering, is open through May 24 and wraps up this week with the Trebuchet catapult competition on Friday at Mills Park.

This program hosts presentations by people from other countries or by those who have traveled to faraway places.
If interested in presenting a country please call Elisa at 775 887-2244 Ext. 1021