The library’s Tinker Lab class is using Rail Cube STEM toys that were purchased through a generous grant from Croy Engineering. These blocks allow children and adults to build tracks where different colored cubes instruct the train car to perform specific tasks, emphasizing coding and experimentation. Although the equipment has already been funded and provided, this highlights Croy Engineering as a philanthropic partner and the library’s interest in hands-on STEM and coding tools. Vendors offering educational makerspace equipment, STEM kits, and related programming can use this as a signal that the library is receptive to expanding its inventory and partnerships around similar interactive learning technologies.

Croy Engineering serves as a grant funder; future STEM purchases may seek similar external funding o...