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2025 Ambassador Showcase

Author

@PLIX Team

Date
April 30, 2025
Category
ReflectionsNews and Updates
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Be inspired…

…by our exceptional PLIX Creative Learning Ambassadors, library professionals from Massachusetts to Hawaii, in rural to urban areas, who have implemented PLIX activities in their library this year.

💖 Get to know the 2024-2025 PLIX Ambassadors →

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🐙Overjoyed Octopodes (Slide 11)

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Exploring Your Senses with PLIX (In)visible Self — 🐌Katie Nelson (she/her)

Head of Teen Services, Beverly Public Library (Beverly, MA)

[Suburban, Urban]

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Family STEAM Lab: OctoStudio — 😳Molly Smith Vargas (she/her)

Librarian I/Youth Services, The Doreen Gauthier Lighthouse Point Library (Lighthouse Point, FL)

[Suburban]

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🦊Fluorescent Foxes (Slide 25)

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Suburban Ecology — 🦊Kit Lorelied (they/them)

STEAM Librarian, Tualatin Public Library (Tualatin, OR)

[Suburban]

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STEAM Explorers: Data Gems — 🐸Paige Kiser (she/her)

Youth Services Associate, The Library Station (Springfield, MO)

[Rural, Suburban, Urban]

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🦦Oomphy Otters (Slide 38)

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Paper Circuits: Dazzling Ornaments and Be My Valentines — 😵‍💫Katelyn Turner (she/her)

STEAM Instructor/ Makerspace Director, Roswell Public Library (Roswell, NM)

[Rural]

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STEAM Science Saturday: The Science of Snow with PLIX Beautiful Symmetry — 😬Miria Webb (she/her)

Library Director, Clinton Public Library (Clinton, TN)

[Rural, Suburban]

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🐕 Delightful Dogs (Slide 56)

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Paper Circuits for ages 6-60 —🏅Amy Chamberlin (she/her)

Library Associate, Juniper Library (Grand Lake, CO)

[Rural]

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Family STEAM Night with wearable circuits— 🏅Vidhya Jagannathan (she/her)

Makerspace Librarian, North Cobb Regional Library (Kennesaw, GA)

[Suburban]

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🦗Literary Lava Crickets (Slide 69)

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Paper Circuit Cards with Families — 👽Peter Newson (he/him)

Library Assistant, San Carlos Library (San Carlos, CA)

[Exurban, Suburban]

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STEAM Escape Room with Native Hawaiian Birds — 🦄Jennifer Vinzons (she/her)

Youth Services Librarian, Kapolei Public Library (Kapolei, HI)

[Suburban]

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🍊Chaotic Capybaras (Slide 86)

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Beautiful Symmetry Inspired by Alma Thomas — 🧐Chelsea Kirkland (she/her)

Digital Inclusion Coordinator, DC Public Library (Washington, DC)

[Urban]

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Accessible Beautiful Symmetry — 🧐Hannah Kane (she/they)

Youth Services Librarian, Fond du Lac Public Library (Fond du Lac, WI)

[Rural, Suburban, Urban]

Explore the slides below to see the ambassadors’ photos and reflections on facilitating creative STEAM library programs for their local communities.