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Kids awed by Sphero Week

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Gleeful laughter filled the air in the Cashmere Public Library on Monday, November 27, Tuesday, November 28 and Thursday, November 30 as the library's Sphero Week was hosted.
The kids programmed their own Sphero robots and challenged themselves by navigating their Sphero balls through various challenging mazes.
"This has been a really great event," Librarian Joanne Gembe said on the event's last day. "I've seen a lot of good problem solving, and the puzzles (mazes) this time have much fewer right angles, which makes it even more challenging spatially."
For many of the kids who showed up on Thursday, it was their second or third visit to the Sphero event and they all caught on to the robot coding right away.
"I'm super impressed with everybody," Gembe said of the kids. "I'm just always so impressed with how well everybody works together."
For Gembe, the kids' teamwork throughout the duration of Sphero Week was the best part.
"I think as word got around more and more kids wanted to be a part of this," Librarian Lisa Lawless said.
According to Lawless, Sphero is a very fun learning activity that is very 'contagious' among kids.
"I love seeing them (the kids) figure out a maze and then we do a big high five at the end because it's awesome," Lawless said. "They completed it, they worked it out, and it wasn't easy. It's a lot of trial and error and working together as a team."
The mazes that the kids took on differed throughout the week as they got harder from day one to day three. On the third, and final, day, there were even more mazes added into the event.
Lawless stated that they even came up with fun names to give to the Sphero mazes based on their shapes.
The various mazes included Santa's Chimney, Dinosaur Jaws, Graduation Walk, Backwards Z, Lightning Bolt and Dyslexic S among others.
"They all have fun names so it makes it even more exciting," Lawless said.

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