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Screens for teens
New Library Tech Center helps
Midwood kids use their creativity
BUTTON MASH: Mariah Ahmed, Aldiana Feratovic, and Valtina Teplani use the
button-making machine at the Kings Highway Library’s new Teen Tech Center.
Photos by Stefano Giovannini
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
The kids are ready to check it out!
A new Teen Tech Center at the Kings
Highway Branch of the Brooklyn Public
Library will help Midwood teens to
create their own podcasts, apps, and
short fi lms. The center, which opened
on March 28, aims to provide the
tools and training to let young adults
unleash their creativity, according to
a librarian.
“The idea of the center is to be really
inspiring,” said Karen Keys. “If you
put the tools and the tech into the space,
teens can come and explore their own interests
and create whatever they want.”
The center was developed with help
from electronics store Best Buy, which
provided funds and guidance as part
of its nationwide effort to train a new
generation of tech users, according to
a library rep.
“The funding came primarily from
Best Buy to help build the space out
and provide equipment for the
center,” said Director of Corporate
Relations Samantha
Dodds. “They were instrumental
in thinking through
what we wanted to do in
the studio.”
The library used the
funds to stock its newly renovated
second fl oor with a
recording studio, state-ofthe
art computers, cameras,
green screens, video
editing software, and various
other technology that
will appeal to Brooklyn’s
youth, said
Dodds.
“The hope is for teens to walk in and
be completely wowed and be driven to
create,” she said. “We’re really focused
on bringing in teens who don’t really
have another place like this, and providing
them with a space to inspire
and create, and to provide a safe and
inviting space for them.”
Since the center opened its doors,
it has attracted between 25 and 40 kids
each day from local schools, said Keys.
The center’s staff and volunteers have
guided the teens in how to use the
various equipment, said Keys.
“It really is about transitioning
teens from being consumers to creators
of media,” she said. “It can be
anything from really low-tech, like a
button maker, to high-tech things like
a 3D printer.”
The library hopes the wide
array of technology and the
specifi c focus on teens will
provide new incentives for
youths to visit the library.
“Sometimes, teens have
the perception that the library
is not a place from
them,” said Keys. “So we provided
them with a
space that is designed
specifi cally for them.”
HAVING A BLAST: A teen plays with a science experiment at the Kings Highway Library’s
Teen Tech Center, a partnership between Brooklyn Public Library and Best Buy.
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