Get to know a universe of engagement opportunities with resources from the NASA Citizen Science Toolkit!
Please welcome this year’s cohrot 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).
Join us for part 2 of the PLIX LLM-Algorithm Arcade workshop! We’ll build sentences together, categorize animals, and scan poetry for words to answer questions.
Engage your diverse library audiences through STEAM learning with PLIX and our MIT friends in our 5th Ambassador Program!
Facilitating for the Feeling of Home and Reflections on Cultural STEM Literacies
Be inspired by thoughtful STEAM library programs from the PLIX Community in this STEAM Showcase
Have you ever listened to a word so much it becomes a musical sequence of sounds?
Co-enthuse with our newest intern about hands-on STEAM learning, flying bisons, and making things light up!
After we implement an opportunity, how can we be thoughtful about next steps?
Deepen your understanding of Facial Recognition Technologies (FRTs) in this hands-on workshop with special guest Dr. Jaleesa Trapp!
The PLIX team is delighted to announce our fourth cohort of Library Ambassadors to spread the joy of creative STEAM learning across the U.S.
Craft and doodle to grow symmetries and play with numbers!
Reimagine familiar games to design new games, and learn the FUN-damentals of artificial intelligence along the way!
We're delighted to announce our second cohort of PLIX Creative STEAM Learning Interns!
Join PLIX and special guest ✨Eric Schilling 🛹 of the OctoStudio team, to design games that blend real world objects and stories from our cultures.
Apply for the PLIX Creative Learning Workshop Series (Oct 16 – Nov 13th)! Deadline Sept 25th.
MIT Open Learning’s Public Library Innovation Exchange collaborates with libraries and MIT researchers for playful hands-on learning experiences.
Celebrating the past 4 years, our first-ever PLIX impact report showcases a vibrant ecosystem of programs and resources for STEM equity in libraries.
Create different ways to playfully track scores with friends!
Level up STEAM learning by combining for complexity in this Beautiful Symmetry exploration with tessellation stamps!
Reflecting on the PLIX Intern journey this year, learning about creative learning education and thriving in public libraries
Level up summer STEAM learning with a variety of example types!
Be inspired by the photos and reflections of our PLIX Creative Learning Ambassadors’ STEAM library programs designed for their communities
Sign up for the PLIX Community Showcase, to be inspired by the incredible library professionals and interns who ran a PLIX activity this year!
Try a paper-based animation tool to model physics phenomena… just in time for National Library Week's "Drawn to the Library" theme
Explore our understandings of trust in collective human knowledge by in this playtest of telling creative truths and lies
Reimagine and revisit maps of places you’ve loved, in poetic language!
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!
Sneak between the pages of a story and give characters a sidequest!
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.
Play with pneumatics, the power of air, to make visible your mind-body connection!
Different ways the PLIX team and PLIX Library Ambassadors have facilitated OctoStudio programs in public libraries, through the lens of creative learning.
Take ownership of your own data and collect them in your pocket!
Join us this October to try out Paper Circuits with chenille stems and create a haunted neighborhood!
The PLIX team is delighted to announce our 2024-2025 cohort of PLIX Library Ambassadors.
Reflections, challenges, and facilitation tips from sharing Data Gems at a middle school summer program
Engage your diverse library audiences through STEAM learning with PLIX and MIT in this year’s PLIX Ambassador Program
The design of a new PLIX activity focused on data entry-ways!
PLIX Mentor Renaté adapts creative learning for a diverse audience
Mentor Interview: Melissa Sprenne and her love of making things glow with PLIX Paper Circuits
Meet the amazing library professionals joining us as PLIX Ambassadors this year!
Grow your confidence in STEAM activities with PLIX!
These are some of our favorite moments from this summer’s PLIX Play Cafe
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PLIX team shares their favorite library memories.
Celebrate Earth Day 2023 with these sustainable remix strategies!
Explore a conversation on sustainability in libraries
Our hybrid workshop approach for community-building workshops