{"id":2955,"date":"2016-04-04T22:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T06:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techykids.com\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2025-02-15T17:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T17:13:29","slug":"belle-haven-library-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techykids.com\/staging\/3266\/archives\/2955","title":{"rendered":"Menlo Park Library Workshop &#038; Featured in Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-40737 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techykids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_4641-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TechyKids held a community workshop at the Belle Haven that was free to participants! Kids of ages 7-11 had the opportunity to learn about robotics, technology and coding, getting hands on experience. The workshop was full with 11 signed up kids, with 5 boys and 6 girls participating. Kids enjoyed hours of learning, coding and building.\u00a0 It is important to note that the Thymio robot is available to available borrow from the Menlo Park library system for continued learning for the community.\u00a0 The library even needed to create a new category of &#8220;Robots&#8221; to the catalogue to be checked out!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techykids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_4726-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"266\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>See the Online Article here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_29707089\/menlo-park-library-brings-back-popular-hands-science\">http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_29707089\/menlo-park-library-brings-back-popular-hands-science<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2956 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techykids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-04-at-11.57.01-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Daily News TechyKids\" width=\"1468\" height=\"796\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechyKids held a community workshop at the Belle Haven that was free to participants! Kids of ages 7-11 had the opportunity to learn about robotics, technology and coding, getting hands on experience. The workshop was full with 11 signed up kids, with 5 boys and 6 girls participating. Kids enjoyed hours of learning, coding and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/techykids.com\/staging\/3266\/archives\/2955\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Menlo Park Library Workshop &#038; Featured in Daily News<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[100,188,345,405,406,409,513],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-belle-haven-library","tag-educational-robot-2","tag-news","tag-robotics-education","tag-robotics-for-kids","tag-robotics-workshop","tag-thymio-robot"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Menlo Park Library Workshop &amp; Featured in Daily News - TechyKids.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techykids.com\/staging\/3266\/archives\/2955\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Menlo Park Library Workshop &amp; Featured in Daily News - TechyKids.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TechyKids held a community workshop at the Belle Haven that was free to participants! 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