{"id":140606,"date":"2026-02-21T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:17:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-teens-spend-mid-winter-break-learning-stem-skills-at-brooklyn-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140606\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Teens spend mid-winter break learning STEM skills at Brooklyn Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teens from across the city spent their break learning tech and engineering skills through their internship with the Brooklyn Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>This year the library partnered with National Grid for a final project competition focusing on Black History month and Engineering week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be about sustainability, it could be a black engineer and the history of that person and what they created and the different challenges they had,&#8221; said Jackson Gomes, the Young Adult Internship coordinator at Brooklyn Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>The kids ages 14 to 18 years old used the skills they acquired during the week to create animation characters and video game designs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s definitely a lot of fun to be able to merge both the creative side and the innovative and challenging aspects of stem and create something a lot more creative and crazy and fun,&#8221; said Francine, a high school senior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teens from across the city spent their break learning tech and engineering skills through their internship with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[35604,98,100,99,14749,280,4760,9,24,63,32351],"class_list":["post-140606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-black-history-month","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-public-library","tag-engineering","tag-national-grid","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}