Power Up At Bowie And De Zavala – SMCISD

On Thursday, September 15, 2016, the Bowie and De Zavala Elementary school libraries joined other libraries across the state to host a Power Up at Your Library Day event.

This celebration was part of the “Ideas Powered: It’s What We Do” campaign, which seeks to broaden the awareness of innovative library services to the public.  Power Up at Your Library Day featured a variety of hands-on activities for students.

“This special library event helps promote the innovation, leadership and technology-centered work being accomplished in the SMCISD libraries and in libraries around the state,” said Priscilla Delgado, Information Literacy Specialist at Bowie Elementary.

“We really want this event to charge up our students about their library,” added Jennifer Payne, Information Literacy Specialist at De Zavala Elementary.  “The library offers so many powerful ways to help our users thrive, and we want to show them off.”

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Photos provided by Priscilla Delgado

• Bowie’s Lego Wall—students build imaginative creations
• Bowie Elementary students Violet Frazier and Marissa Diaz show off the waving hand they assembled using Little Bits circuits
• Listening to book on iPods in the De Zavala Elementary library: Pamela Contreras, Jonathan Espinoza, Aliyannah Cadena, Veronica Marin
• De Zavala Elementary students follow directions to construct a Little Bits design: Angel Guerrero, Emma Foor, Eliza Corona

To learn more about the “Ideas Powered: It’s What We Do” initiative, which was launched by the Texas Library Association in early 2016, please visit www.poweredlibraries.org.