MIT PLIX co-designs creative STEAM activities and facilitation resources with public librarians and MIT researchers
What’s new?
Grow your STEAM confidence with our hands-on workshops and facilitation tips, and learn how your library peers run STEAM activities.
Turn casual dinner-table play into a shared coding opportunity!
Sharpen your library outreach skills! Here are some facilitation tips from PLIX at MIT Future Fest on Saturday Oct 3, 2026, sharing the LLM Algorithm Arcade Activity.
Please welcome this year’s cohort of 14 librarians and 3 library mentors joining from all corners of the country, from Maine to Florida to California to Alaska. They represent a range of community types (rural, tribal, military base, suburban, urban), early to late career, low to high STEM confidence, and a curiosity-driven range of interests (stand-up comedy, homesteading, strength training, tabletop games, home servers, encrypted radio communications).
Creative STEAM Activities
Get started with our thoughtfully-designed STEAM activities. Co-designed by your library peers, these activities are play-tested in libraries around the world.
Play and adapt familiar games to learn the FUNdamentals of artificial intelligence!
Bring the physical world into interactive stories, animations, and games on mobile devices with easy on-the-go creative coding.
PLIX = Public Libraries + MIT Research + Creative Learning
“PLIX brings the creative approach to STEM learning, that is "in the air" on the MIT campus, to hundreds of public libraries all around the country and the world. PLIX is not only a collection of free high-quality education materials, but a community of educators that support a different vision of learning, where young people work on projects that inspire them, and build confidence to solve problems that they care about.”
— Philipp Schmidt, PLIX co-founder, and VP of Technology Innovation at Axim Collaborative
"The support I have received from PLIX has been instrumental in opening up STEM concepts for youth services programming…I wouldn't have been able to offer such thoughtful and novel ideas to stimulate young minds without the resources from the PLIX community."
— Brook Fischer, Garland County Library, AR