By Jane Somerville

Our STEAM Club is off to a great start. The first week the kids worked with Zoob Challenge. Zoob is an open-ended building toy, it's five basic pieces snap together 20 different ways. Zoob Challenge takes open ended building in a new direction, as young builders experiment with Zoob pieces to solve specific challenges based on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math skills. The first challenge was to build a car and figure out three different ways to make the car move across the table. When this challenge was met the participants then had to build something that made the car stop at the edge of the table before it fell off. The second week participants worked on two different projects. One group worked with Keva planks and constructed three structures that could be connected. Once that challenge was completed the group built a boat with the planks. The other group worked with Straws and Connectors to make a rocket ship. Kids from K-8 are encouraged to join us on Saturday mornings from 10:30 until 12:00 for STEAM Club.

Stanley City Police Officer Ron Pumphrey will hold a series of discussions on policing and governance. The first discussion, Governance Role in Policing was held Wednesday, February 18. The second in the series will be held Wednesday, March 4th at 6:00 pm. The topic of discussion will be Ideal Versus Reality. There is an ideal desire but there is the reality of policing a community.

John Phillips will hold a discussion on 3-D Printing Thursday, February 19, 6:30.

Saturday we will be serving cookies and cocoa and playing X-Box games as part of the city of Stanley's Winterfest celebration. We will also be open Sunday, February 22 from 12-4. There will be a movie at 1:00 with popcorn and other treats.

Let's Talk About It will be held on Monday, February 23. Dinner of soup, bread and dessert will be served at 5:30, book discussion will begin at 6:00. Our book this month is Animals in Transition by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson. Our scholar will be Dr. Clark Draney, Professor of English and writing program administrator at the College of Southern Idaho. Books are available now for check out.

Regular library hours are Monday 12-6, Tuesday and Wednesday 12-4, Thursday 12-6, Friday and Saturday 10-6.

Library phone number is 774-2470.

Email address is stanley.id.library@gmail.com.

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