This innovation increases access for making and learning outside of a stagnate "maker space," offering innovative programming to a more diverse audience. With mobile kits, librarians across our nine libraries can do programs on everything from circuitry to sewing to tinkering anywhere from city parks to school cafeterias. By creating a database of the maker kits and easy to use, researched based assessments, we have streamlined sharing this resource with kintergarten - 12 educators.

These kits provide an easy way to share the maker mindset of creative, hands-on learning with children, parents and educators. With a variety of 20 kits both heavy and light in technology, the breadth of what it means to be a maker is evident. It has allowed the library to be a hub for maker education with our local teachers and a third space for experiential learning for youth.

We have dramatically increased our outreach capabilities with our program kits (from three to 15 sites from summer 2016 to 2017). But more than numbers, using a framework from the Exploratorium, we built an easy to use assessment tool to gauge what kind of learning is happening with youth as they engage with our kits. This tool helps us assess learning, but also gives teachers a tool to assess learning, empowering them to promote making in classrooms.