Chicago Public Library STEM Centers

CPL Set To Open 15 STEM-Focused Early Learning Centers Following $2.5M Grant

Karis Hustad | August 4, 2015

Chicago Public Library has been quick to promote multimedia learning through its 80 branches across the city, with initiatives such as YOUmedia and WiFi hotspot checkouts that aim to bridge the digital divide.
Now they're extending that idea to the library's youngest patrons, thanks to a $2.5 million grant from Exelon Corporation.

Source: http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2015/08/04/chicago-public-library-to-open-early-learning-stem-centers/

Last week CPL and the Mayor's office announced that 15 library branches will get early learning STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) centers, including a 18,000-square-foot children's space in the Harold Washington Library. 

<more at http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2015/08/04/chicago-public-library-to-open-early-learning-stem-centers/; related links: http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2015/july/mayor-emanuel-and-chicago-public-library-commissioner-bannon-ann.html (Mayor Emanuel and Chicago Public Library Commissioner Bannon Announce Expansion of Early Learning Educational Investments; Funds From Exelon Will Support Establishment of Flagship Early Learning Center at Harold Washington Library and Expansion to Fourteen Branches Across the City. July 31, 2105) and http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140913/albany-park/mayor-declares-albany-park-library-new-gold-standard (Mayor Declares Albany Park Library 'The New Gold Standard'. September 13, 2014)>