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Sidney Public Schools will benefit from Sidney Public Library’s permanent makerspace, Chris Arent, Sidney High School principal, told the SPS board Monday.
The library has received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a “teaching telepresence” with University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“Makerspace is basically where you’re able to come in and there’s different tools and different items available for you to use to create things,” Arent explained. “We were the first community in Nebraska to receive that grant.”
The space should be completed in November, Andrew Sherman, library director, told the board, and has set a target of helping 75 students.
Among its features would be a telepresence robot.
“We’ll have a telepresence robot that subject matter experts in Lincoln can actually control in the environment, and be able to roll up to the work stations or in front of the classroom and provide hands-on oversight,” Sherman said.
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