On a beautiful Fall, Saturday morning in Brunswick, Maine (a small mid-coast town known for Bowdoin College), the Curtis Memorial Library held its annual How-To Festival, which brings together local businesses, organizations, and individuals. Attendees shared their skills and knowledge of doing all things under the sun, ranging from activities that require highly specialized skills to those anyone can do, anywhere.
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UMaine Cooperative Extension seaweed project This year, participating library staff coordinators highlighted something right in the middle: citizen science. I am the Program and Library Support Manager of Cornerstones of Science, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping communities ignite the spark for science through the public library system. During the festival, our organization acted as a catalyst for science, presenting SciStarter to attendees and helping them find projects to participate in for themselves and their families. The three-hour event brought people of all ages and interest to ...
