Las Vegas, NV (January 3, 2018) - The Best Buy Teen Tech Center at the Clark County Library is stocked with more high-tech gizmos, gadgets and thingies than even the most savvy kid could covet, from computers stuffed with graphics, animation and editing software to a DJ station, robotics equipment, a recording studio and … a sewing machine like Mom’s?Sure, says Megan Nykodym, the library’s teen services department head.
“What we’ve noticed is a lot of kids want to know about fashion design and don’t know where to start,” she explains. “So not only will students be able to learn how to use a sewing machine, but there’s all sorts of software and hardware (used in) the process of designing and creating clothing.”
Nykodym said one goal of the center — which is free to students from eighth grade through high school — is to encourage teens to explore tech careers they may not even know exist. In the meantime, they’ll have a chance to explore what happens when their own creativity intersects with high-tech tools.
The center was funded through a $150,000 grant award from the Best Buy Foundation to the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Foundation. Andrea Wood, Best Buy’s director of community relations, says the local center is the 14th the retailer has funded nationwide, and that plans call for the operation of more than 60 such centers by 2020.
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