The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) at MIT Open Learning co-designs creative STEAM activities with public library professionals and MIT researchers, and offers professional development in facilitating creative learning to support STEM confidence.🌟 Read more About PLIX →
Upcoming Workshops and Events
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Try a paper-based animation tool to model physics phenomena… just in time for National Library Week's "Drawn to the Library" theme
Sign up for the PLIX Community Showcase, to be inspired by the incredible library professionals and interns who ran a PLIX activity this year!
Creative STEAM Activities
Get started with PLIX with our thoughtfully designed STEAM activities.
Combine the expressive flexibility of poetic language and local data research skills to encourage a re-imagination of maps and renewed understanding of place
Bring the physical world into interactive stories, animations, and games on mobile devices with easy on-the-go creative coding.
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Through a framework embodying creative learning, our Brazilian friends at Instituto Catalisador use their Circles of Invention to integrate reading, making, and narratives to bring OctoStudio to low-income families in São Paulo.
PLIX Interns Daphne and Kailey reflect on facilitating Paper Circuits for the first time!
Our 2025 PLIX Creative Learning Interns are a select group of MIT undergraduates interested in teaching and learning in creative ways.
In a Walk with Ease program for older adults, PLIX ambassador Janea Coker, Barry Lawrence Regional Library, used PLIX Data Gems to introduce data literacy skills, and fostered community connections along the way.