WCL awarded digital literacy grant

For the second year in a row, Whitman County Library has been awarded a $7,500 Digital Literacy Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by Washington State Library, to continue providing area teens with hands-on coding camps.

As a grant recipient last year, the library partnered with schools in Colfax, LaCrosse, Steptoe, Oakesdale, Palouse, Rosalia and Colton to introduce more than 290 students to coding part one, providing interactive electronics through six LED light sequencing experiments using the Arduino Platform and C++ programming language.

Part two student...