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The Teaching Librarian 23.1 31 inquiry. It is simple to purchase robot kits, but they are useless if you can't support their use." In september, kristofor will be moving on to aylesbury Public school to open a brand new library. I was fortunate to also have the opportunity of visiting erica armstrong's tech lounge at fairlawn Public school in Brampton. erica teaches both core french and technology planning time classes. Her space is comfortable and inviting. students sit on couches, wobble stools and beanbags as they work on coding, build Minecraft projects and create news reports in front of a brightly lit green screen. The students have access to both MacBooks and desktops where they can edit their footage and add backgrounds. a giant robotics table lies in the middle of the space. erica's students are free to decide what they would like to explore each time they enter the tech lounge. she teaches all of her students coding in the fall because it serves as a great base for many of the other projects available to them. The makerspace in my own library is slowly taking shape. students are designing homes for our pet snails using Lego, making stop motion movies, and creating digital stories. we have purchased Minecraft edu accounts and have been designing school logos and making scale plans for our gardening project. The students are learning how to code and will experiment with our Lego Mindstorms robots next month. Laura fleming writes, "although informal, our makerspace has had a real impact on so many of our students. I have seen students choose their college majors or career choices based on the experiences they have had in our space." How will the makerspace at my library impact student learning? only time will tell. what I do know is that when I look around, I see students who are engaged, asking questions, seeking answers and completely excited about creating something new. z RESOURCES Diana Rendina's Blog: renovatedlearning.com Laura Fleming's Blog: worlds-of-learning.com Kristofor Schuermann on Twitter: @Mrschuermann Erica Armstrong on Twitter: @ms_e_a Carey, B., Hernberg, M., Hobbs, T., & Paul, C. (2014). what is the Maker Movement? In Thinkers and Tinkers. retrieved May 2, 2015, from http://hernbergm.wix.com/maker-movement. fleming, Laura. (2013). Making for the sake of Making. In Worlds of Learning. retrieved May 2, 2015, from http://worlds-of-learning.com. rendina, diana. (2014). our Makerspace Journey. In Renovated Learning. retrieved May 4, 2015, from http://renovatedlearning.com.