>> Jennifer: In the learner guide, there are a handful of questions and activities to help you bring the conversation to your team. If you have specific steps that you would like to take, you can customize the guide to make it work for you. We find it super helpful for folks trying to take action they are doing and learning through this great project. 

I am thrilled to welcome our presenters from GBH here today to introduce to you all these good things. Mary Haggerty is the director of Media Engagement and Nicki Sirianni, welcome to both of you, I am sited about today's session and I am thrilled to have you here to talk about work it out Wombats. Welcome. 

>> Mary: Thank you so much. 

Jennifer, thanks again -- 

>> Jennifer: I think you may have just turned your video off. We were enjoying seeing your face so I will make sure you turn it back on again. 

>> Mary: Okay, let me see what they are saying. We'll start off with some Wombats Trivia.

I will pause on this slide for about a minute. If you want to share your marsupial knowledge with us, you can put your answer in the chat and at the end of the webinar, we'll be sharing the answers. I will give it just about a minute.


>> Jennifer: I am going to ask a question while we are waiting. How did you come about deciding on Wombats? 

>> Mary: Such a good question. There are many answers. I think one answer is we tried some other animals. We definitely wanted animals of what we can draw because the Wombats build things and they need their thumbs. They are very cute. They run fast, and you will know how fast in our webinar.

Those are some of the reasons Wombats. 

>> Nicki: And not many kid shows have a Wombat. 

>> Mary: An untapped market.

We love Australians so. 

Okay, so thank you folks for sharing your Wombats knowledge. I see some really great answers and again at the end of the webinar, we'll share all of the answers with you. So, as Jennifer -- sorry, let's see. We are trying to advance and seem to be having some trouble. 

>> Jennifer: Do you see the arrows at the top of the slide? 

>> Mary: I do. My colleague Nicki and I work at GBH, it is the Public Broadcaster located in Boston. Since we started with some trivia, indulge me, I want to share a little bit more. Our station's call letters, GBH, stands for great Blue Hill. 

That's where our first transmitter was located. 

About 12 years ago we were located in a different part of the city. Right across the street from Harvard Business School and the joke was GBH stood for God Bless Harvard. That's not true. 

All that are transmitter. 

For those fans of the HBO series, Julia.

You may be thinking wait a minute, should it be WGBH? 

Well, for about seven years, we were known for WGBH. The W and the K if you are west of Mississippi comes at the beginning of the radio call letters were haulover from the day of terrestrial only broadcast. Today, GBH and other public broadcasters developing so many contents on so many platforms online and streaming APPs and more.

We wanted to update our call letters to reflect this. GBH is one of the hundreds of locals and regional radio station that makes up the public media system. We are leaders among this group and the largest contributor programming to the PBS system. That's for kids as well as adults. At the bottom of this screen, you will see low goeses for some of our productions and hopefully you are familiar with this. So producers like GBH celebrates libraries and library staff on-air, online, and in communities. 

GBH has a decade's long history with public libraries. Broadcasters across the country use our resources in communities the large and small, urban, rural and suburban. Some of you may grew up on the Arthur series. You may be familiar of Paige, the librarian. How could you forget the Arthur episode when DW got her first library card. We partner with the first indigenous person to hold that post on two national initiatives. 

The first was a library event kid on the five-part experience series on native Americans entitled "We Shall Remain." The second is a fun library guide that we codeveloped with several indigenous libraries. It features cultural activities and vent ideas for families and social study concepts in the DENALI series. We unleash kids enthusiasm for reading. With the initiative that brought together kids, trained therapy dogs, and great dog books. Libraries across the country using more the animated series. It is based on the book by Susan Meta. The PBS series promotes oral vocabulary development among young kids. Every time Martha eats a bowl of alphabet soup, she gains the ability to speak and not stop talking which leads to some fun. In the bottom right-hand corner. 

The photo you may be familiar with some of you, this was the Versailles of the third Memorial library, which is home between alliance. For those of you who remember between alliance, it was the multi-award winning PBS kids series that picked up where "Sesame Street" left off. 

Teaching kids skills like phonics and vocabulary and reading comprehension and of course a love of reading. 

Today, we are excited to introduce you to our latest library collaboration. 

Working out at your library with the Wombats. Based on the new PBZ series, work it out Wombats, this library outreach initiatives to support children's early computational thinking skills with the focus on rural settings. So, what is work it out Wombats? It is a ground breaking PBS kids multi media initiative, designed to help computational thinking skills amongst young kids and our target age group is three to six. This animated series is all about community, family, and solving problems together. 

The main characters are obviously a family of Wombats. You will see the illustration in the bottom of the right-hand corner. 

>> Super is the grandmother.

She's the super of the fantastic apartment complex called the tree neighborhood. She lives there with her three grand kids. They are always getting into messes and unfortunately, getting out of them, using computational thinking skills. Working out Wombats featuring the following components and this is true at every initiative. At the heart of television broadcast the episodes which you can access on a traditional television and also available streaming and you can watch on the PBS kids APP. There is a fun website with games and hands-on activities. We introduce a very engaging podcast series that's specifically a design for family listening, we produce resources for educators, librarians and caregivers. I should know all of these resources are available free of charge. 

Finally, we develop R&D initiative based on the series. That's what we'll be talking about today. Before we dive in, let's define the term computational thinking?

So, it is the precursor to computing. It is not computing but it is a precursor. It sets the stage for more complex thinking later on. Our definition is computational thinking is CT for short. It is simply a creative way of thinking and helps you to problem solved in more organize ways and using a tool kit of skills from computer science. We all use CT skills everyday, adults, kids, and every one.

I will give you a couple of examples. When you replace the batteries in your TV remote because you are not working. You are using the CT skills debugging to fix the problem in a systematic way. When you run daily errands, you are using the frequent si to both think about and organize it in a particular order. For young kids, I kind of looks the same. They play with blocks to make a castle or practice the design process by creating, testing and improving the structure. 

They explore frequency by figuring out the steps and serving the customer with a meal. Working without with the Wombats. In developing this initiative, we wanted to equip librarians with the set of tools they can use to help families explore CT in sustainable, fun, and engageengaging ways in library and also at home. This new library engagement model leverages a lot of what librarians are really great at and their expertise. As community conveners, as trusted sources of information and as partners in helping young children grow and thrive. Of course, with any R&D initiative, we are interested in engaging impact and contributing to the broader field of research. In our case about how multi-media tools can help learning engagement and ran CT among families with young children. 

>> So, it was really important to us to develop this initiative with and not just for librarians. The first thing we did was to establish what we call the library working group. 

Compose of the following members. OCLC Webjunction, our wonderful host of today's webinar. The public library Association, PLA and their special initiatives library is ready to close which focuses on computational think and coding. The association of rural and small libraries, I mentioned we had to focus on rural and Nicki and I are going to be presenting it at their national conference which is going to be held in Massachusetts. When you think of Massachusetts, you may not think of rural but the western portion of the state is very rural. They'll be in Springfield, Saturday on September 14th, I think, Nikki? If you happen to be around, we would love to see you. I think one of the Wombats are going to be joining us in person today. 

>> This library working group also including in practice library. We meet together frequently throughout the pandemic so, it was all done virtually. 

>> We develop the sweet of multi-media resources. 

>> While these sources are great, they were developed and partnership with rural communities. There was an important reason why. This is the population that often gets less attention on R&D initiativesinitiatives. Libraries all over are such strong community, conveners and their members of the community in rural communities is even elevated so. We want to make sure that we we were learning from families and librarians and the community and so we can develop a great initiative that works everywhere. So, now let's take a look at an overview video of working at your library. 

>> [Video] 





>> I am Christina, I am an early hood educator and a big fan of the PBS series, "work it out Wombat." A new program that helps preschool family exploring computational thinking using an APP with animated Wombat videos and hands-on activities inspired by the TV show. Million of kids watch work it out Wombat every week, making it a great way to attract the family to program. Work it out Wombat followings the adventure of three playful siblings. They live with their grandmother, soup in the tree neighborhood. A fantastic tree house complex. That's home for a first community of animals. 

Everyday, the Wombats use computational thinking to solve problems. It is a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in an organized way. Using a toolbox of skills have xhurt of science. It prepares children for success in school and in life right from the start. The work it out at your library program brings the fun of CT learning at the family at your library. It includes four and three-week yeent. 

Here is how each of the unit works. You will hold a welcome session. You will download the APP and you will try on the firstfirst hands-on activities at home. Next, families will be watching activities at home and do hands-on activities guided by the APP. Parents will come back to get answers to their questions. 

Week three, families will again return to the library to do a final hand on activities together and celebrate what they learn at home. 

>> All four units working it out at your library follow this model. Feel free to adapt the length of the program to fit your programming needs. Work it out at your library including all the resources you will need to lead your family through each session.

Guys, for library workers and families, principle activities and slide deck and materials to set up. 

There are videos for parents to learn more about the program and computational thinking. You can find it at PBSLEARNing media.org. 

>> It is available for Apple and an destroyed phones. It can be use limited in a wide range. Use work it out at your library and help families to solve problems with CT. 

>> [End of video] 

>> I see in the chat some folks had a little trouble seeing the video. I just have a couple more remarks and I am going to pass it over to Nicki. Nicki is going to do a walk-through of the resources and we'll have URL so you can hop on and take a look at your ledger. 

>> Mary: We are always interested in engaging impact and we do that through research. EBC, some of you may be particular with them. They work with several libraries and families and rural fizz to test early prototypes of the materials. The official findings were really encouraging. 

>> Care giving ratings of their trials of use of CD skills and mindset will solve the problems increasingly. The majority demonstrated an increase of understanding to CT as being related to problem solving. 

Again, I want to stress that we all use computational thinking skills every single day. We are now preparing for a larger scale study of the final materials and again, Nicki is going to be going over that in a moment.

That study is going to start later this fall in rural community with your libraries and families and Alabama, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania. So, now it is my pleasure to turn things over to my colleague Nicki. To take you on a tour of those materials. 

>> Nicki: Thank you so much, Mary. I am ready for the next slide. You heard about this program and I am going to walk through everything that's available for you to use. And the different kinds of ways. So, here is the collection page. It is available for free. 

Everything I am about to show you is free. On PBS morning media, what's included in the full collection are our facilitator guide, student handouts, take home family guides and lots of videos and so much more. The way this collection is organized, you will see here is the welcome page and there are six different times that are down at the bottom of the page where each one is a different section grouping different resources together. The first one is struck tri resources. The next four are the different units. 

>> Each one of the units is exploring a different CT skills. Teach one of these units is composed of a three-week library program session. You can do multiple of these units and extend the lengths of the program. 

It is kos Tom minimizable for whatever works. The last kind of collection of resources here are more information with the families. 

>> I am going to walk you through what's in it. So, next slide, please. 

>> So, here is a deeper look of that introduction session. 

>> You will see a video that we just wrached about the program. You will go in there and see the video and also here our introductory guide and it has everything you need to know of the program. 

>> And it also gives a run down of how this program is basically structured. Also, included in that is a promotional tool kit which has social media posts and kind of e-mail language and a fier for us to use to spread your words to your family to help recruit them.

We have all of that in there for you as well. 

>> I wanted to highlight with this chart and it really does a lovely job of breaking down the structure of what the program looks like. Again, it is a lot of numbers to keep track of. 

>> There are four different units. 

>> Each one of the four units is a three-week independent programs. 

>> You can run it or complete or multiple. Each one o f the units structured in the exact same way. The video kind of went over this. Just to repeat what was said there again. In week one, you will do an introductory session where you will introduce families to the program and introduce CT skills that you will be exploring with that kind of unit. Then, you show them how to doll the APP. Then, they go home and at home they continue using the APP and doing more activities in that section. Week two, they come back and we'll do a CT story time session. You will do another kind of fun activities together. Again, they'll go home to do more activities using the APP. 

And in week three, they'll come back. You do one more big activity together and you kind of have a party and celebrate the hard work your families have done. Next slide, please. 

>> Let's look at the different units. I am going to highlight a different feature on each one of these pages. 

>> Thoet that each of the unit has everything I say and each of the resources available. So, unit one is create. This is pork working on the CT scale of the designing pros process. 

>> As you open any one of these, this is your complete guide for running that unit.

>> The guide has set up instructions, it has suggested scripts for you to use as you talk with your family. All that is there based on if you want to use it. It has all the Les of the materials you would need for that session. We call it your one stop shop for running this program. Once you have this guide, you will be able to run this program and do anything you need to do. Great. 

>> Next slide, please. This unit is step it out. 

>> Focusing on the sequencing. 

>> If you will look in this community, the first thing you will see is your guide. 

Each community has a collection of videos for you to use supporting your teaching and getting your family engaged with the Wombats. 

>> The video would fall in for two buckets. Some are informational based Schmidt veto and what is sequencing and other thuns with going to be fun Wombat videos. 

>> We'll feature music mid owes for you to use. We love to get the wiggles out with the Wombats. 

>> Each video, we'll do a different music videos and there will be a full combat episode that you watch in the session. You watch this video of the Wombats, doing whatever CT scale and you will do the same or similar who what the Wombats do. The all of the video are to be downed. 

>>And you can play offline at any point as well. 

>> This unit is unit three this is fine and t matters. 

It is all about representation and spernlly, it is my faft. You will have your guide and your video. I want to point out each of the unit will feature support materials for you to use as you run this program.

>> So, one of those support materials is a recommended bullets. Beech of its has its own booklet and ten recommended title that's featuring the CJ skills being. They're a starting point for you. You are the ex poerts on books. Feel free to add to them or if resources around and if you want to noodle it around. 

Included in each of the unit, we created presentation depth. For you to use with your family and we have justed scrips in in the guy and how to walk through presentations with them. It can be downloaded straight from the PBS learning media site. 

>> Unit four is break it down, which is about the CT skills of problems of accommodation. So, here is an example of some of the support that are futured here. Tick - stick puppet for you to dance with the family and enjoying some fun Wombat mew I can S video with you. Each family attended the program, we created a family collide for them to leave with and for you to hand out to them. 

This family guide gives more information for families on how to support their child through CT exploitation. At the end, there is always a fun tracking sheep for them to keep track of what activities they have done from the APP together as a family. 

>> Another fun thing that I love is a stiff cannot of achievement. Once your family has done an amazing work and exploring CT with you and that program. There are these certificates to help them celebrate all the work they are done together.

Next slide, please. 

>> Then, the last section on the home page is a section for you to more resources to give to families if tla need more information on certain amendments or component of the program. 

>> There is an overview for family this is similar to the overview video that you watched but it is tailor to a family orient. There is also background video on and there is also a video tla walks through the APP. So, it gives us full e medications how to use the APP and cool things like that. 

>> Send another guide for preschool conversational thinking for families. 

Again, CT is not a topic that a lot of family probably are talking about. 

I hope they are, but we just want to give a lot of great resources so families have a lot of different ways to understand the content and engagement. 

>> [Video] 

>> I am Christina, an advisor for the "work it out Wombat." Join zeke, SADY, and Emily. They use computational thinking or CT to solve problems. CT is a creative way of thinking that helps children solve problems in more organized ways. At the library, you will watch CT videos and do CT activities together and read CT books at story time.

Throughout the program, you will get tips on how to support your child as they use their computational thinking skills. When you go home, you and your child will watch animated Wombat videos and doing hands-on activities and using the free Wombat fathers and mothersmothers - Wombats family APP. When you gather, you will share and celebrate with other families. Reach out to your libraries for more information about "work it out" your family. Check out our work it out Wombats APP. It is available in the APP store and on Google play. ♫♫ 

>> [End of video] 

>> Nicki: Once the APP is downloaded to your family's phone, it can work without using internet or data. Once that APP is downloaded, you will no longer need data or internet to be able to use all the features that the APP has included. Great. So, the last collection, more resources, we are throw resources at you. The last that I want to share is we created what we are calling our CT corner tool Kit. It has a bunch of resources so that you and your library can set up a CT corner exploration. Families can come and engage in different components featuring the Wombats at their leisure. We have table top signs for you to post and then there is a ton of activity sheets and coloring sheets. This is a small example of what's featured inside the tool kit and we have the recommended booklets there. We encourage you to have books for families to browse that are featured of these CT skills.

Great, next slide. I think that's it for us. We are happy to take questions at this point. I think I saw a couple popping up in the chat. Mary and I do want to share your e-mails right here if anyone has any questions. Please do not hesitate and reach out and let us know. 

>> Mary: We want to share the Wombats trivia. 

>> Nicki: Yes. 

>> Mary: We'll pop it up and going back to the resources.

A group of Wombats is called the wisdom of Wombats. When I found it out, I thought that has to be the title of the series. We'll have to find another use for it. I thought that was pretty good. Wombats are pretty best. They have been clocked at 40 kilometers and just mainly males during mating seasons so they are motivated. 

>> Nicki: Motivated Wombats.

>> Mary: Yes, they are native to Australia. I saw a couple of people get this right. They are cube shaped.

The reason is, this is the theory that a cube shaped is easy to get away and they use their poop - excuse me, to mark their territory. 

That's our Wombat trivia. 

Again, these are our e-mail addresses and links to resources. I know that in the chat, folks have been posting URLs and etc. Yeah, I am happy to answer any questions. 

>> Jennifer: There are definitely folks would love to hear more thoughts around access to the program, either not focusing on the APP, knowing that they have - it sounds they are in some areas where communities are not using technology or they don't have the access and bandwidth. If you want to share what you have seen or how you see people using all these amazing resources.

>> Mary: One of the things that came out early on is broadband access. What we have learned is that if we develop an APP that meets internet access once and just for the download and we'll operate without eating up a data planner or internet access then family and rural communities are likely to use them.

That's exactly what we did. 

So, most libraries do have internet and so the advice we received from rural LiberianLiberians and staff, we can help our family download at once. Just make sure it functions afterwards and it does. Then, I think there was also another question and I will keep on the tech and I will turn things over to Nicki. So, did we produce DVDs? That did not come up in our early development. I am glad you mentioned it. I am working on another project funded by the Science Foundation. We were just up in Alaska, very rural. Some of which do not have ready broadband so we did bring DVDs. I know that we didn't produce them for our outreach and engagementengagement.

Nicki, do you know? 

>> Nicki: I feel like in general, production moved away from DVDs. I know libraries and young kids still use DVDs a lot. Yeah. 

But, we can check. 

>> Mary: We'll definitely check in. If one has a particular need, you will have your e-mail and we'll do whatever we can to get you what you need. 

>> Nicki: I would love to speak more of the flexibility of the program. 

I know people are wondering can they use it without APP or what have you. We threw everything we had at you, but we encourage you to take what you need and leave what you don't. You are the experts of what's going to work best with your program.

We are not precious about it or you have to run exactly how you wrote it. We are trying to give you as much as we can. Take what you like and leave what you don't like. There are a couple of different ways and I can envision libraries engaging with these materials. I think one way is set up a CT corner in your library and let families explore. Check out those recommended book lists and if you want to create a CT story hour and feature one of those books and have the corner there for families the engage with.

That's one way you can engage. Take a look at the program. I think we really did think about it working closely in tandem with the APP. There are certainly way you can run just the activities, especially in the session two and session three of the CT story time hour and the share session. 

There are ways you can do it without the APP. Please, I would say dig into those guides and really feel free to take the parts that you would like and leave parts that you don't think it works for the community. 

>> Jennifer: That is super helpful of questions that came up. You emphasized it is all content and flexible to be adapted to be however and if you want ideas, you know, or bounce ideas off of Facebook, I am sure they would be eager to think about how to incorporate into interesting programming. I think it is interesting to think about somebody mentioning there is a book mobile library, so, if you don't have the space, you are not doing a program.

What are some of the ways folks with sharing resources with parents or the story that they could tell to encourage folks if there is not a specific program that they are offering. 

>> Nicki: I love the idea of maybe creating bundles to hand out with family. You can create a CT bundles where you can send family home with coloring sheets or a list of books to check out that's focusing on CT.

That's one thing that comes straight from my mine, Mary?

>> Mary: There are so many ways, gateway things that you can do that are very light lifts to more advance, you know, as Jennifer, we would love to hear how you are adapting the materials. 

We'll also be testing the full complement of resources in a research study a little later this fall. We'll be sharing those results. Even if you don't implement the resources in that way, it may also be interesting for you to know, what happens if you do implement them in that way. We want them to be as flexible as possible. 

>> Jennifer: The question that came in. Do the guides explain where the parents will see in the APP? 

>> Nicki: Yes, it will walk through what parents see in the APP. I recommend that you download the APP yourself and play around and you will get a quick feel of what it is like. 

Essentially, the APP for each of the CT skills featured in this program. 

There are eight activities free of CT skills or nine skills? There are nine different activities and it is structured as a watch do celebrate. First, you watch a video of the Wombats doing an activity and then you are encouraged to do that same activity and take pictures. 

Then, your pictures are put together as a music video at the end celebrating the work that you just did. Each activity is structured just like that. 

>> Mary: The videos you make are very fun because there are characters and music. 

Animations - what's not to love? 

>> Nicki: Yes. 

>> Jennifer: Are there plans to make resources available in Spanish? 

>> Mary: That's a very good question. I was going to e-mail Nicki because we got to get on that. All the episodes are available in both English and Spanish, which is great and we are super excited about that. We are going to start translating some of the family hands-on activities probably a little later this summer, early fall. We are happy to share those with you and the hope is a little down the road, we could seek a grant to do a full translation of all of the resources. That's certainly the hope. And the Spanish translation, we have translated some of our - well, all the episodes are translated. We had a great museum educator from the Harvard museum in natural history who's a native speaker and did a beautiful job. Yeah, we are happy to share it with you as well. 

>> Jennifer: To confirm, somebody asked about the printables that are available on the APP. They don't have to have the APP to access the printables. 

>> Nicki: Right. The digital kit is going to have all the printables and tons of things you can hand out to your family. 

>> Mary: Unicorn crowns, meet your crown needs. 

>> Jennifer: I guess it would be great to hear - have you heard from any of libraries that's been able to implement programs related to work it Out Wombats?. 

>> Mary: Yes, we actually have. Again, just like a couple of weeks ago. We just completed the materials. No one library has used the final materials yet. They'll have a lot to say beginning of this fall.

As I mention early on, EDC did some testing of prototype resources. They had a blast. I think one of the things that the library worker was so excited about was she did not know what computation thinking was. 

She was really nervous and worried. Why are you asking me taking on this big topic?

I don't do computing. I think some folks at GBH many years ago when we first started looking at computational thinking had the same reaction. 6 or 7 years ago, I don't know if I would give you a good complete definition of computing. I would get partial credit for it. That was one of the responses. 

Thanks to a very generous of the corporation of Public Broadcasting. We created what we call play time with the Wombats. It is family and community initiative, and librarians are an ideal partner. Part one is we created a pop-up family activity installation. So, it is kind of a little pop-up activity museum. So, labors across - pretty much across the country and ten different communities across the country tested it out. 

We live in Boston. If we have a great relationship with the Boston public library. So, right in our backyard, there is an amazing alley and a library there. She hosted the pop-up, families had a blast. They did cause and effect and on transaction and representation and pattern recognitions and sequencing, the whole lot. 

That's one. The second component is what we call the family play time kit. 

They are take home versions of the pop-up. Families go a little cause and effect machine game board and little Dom knees and things like that. Very fun. I am about to write the final report so, I will be looking over the research findings. 

I hear from our colleague, the director of research for the educational department. 

If findings look good. Kids are really learning something. 

>> Jennifer: That's great. 

For myself to learn about CT, it was interesting to see how when some people talk about it, they jump to computing really quickly. It is super helpful to start foundationally to see how, you know, kids are learning those skills in everyday action and I just think it is one of those pieces that helps before school and your helping parents and before they head into school where tli were - then, there is more emphasises. 

>> Being able to demonstrate your commitment to lifelong learners with the work you do through PBS really profoundly mirrors how libraries are leading folks through that lifelong learning in those different phases as well. All right, a few more questions here. 

Feel free to post your questions. If you have others, there is a question about will there be Wombat puppets in the future? 

>> Nicki: Well, this program has stick puppets. Advertise Cal, tangible puppets, let's hope - right, Mary? 

>> Mary: I know, that would be fun. I was sitting many the office and moving things around and I came across between the lions and hand puppets. I was thinking boy, I wish we had more of that. 

>> Jennifer: I was not sure if you answered those questions for videos on YouTube. Does the library have performance rights to show those in the library. 

>> Nicki: Anything during this, you have the right to use and share your library. 

>> Jennifer: Do you offer on-site and pop-up training for libraries? I am sure you would love to but I don't know how seasonable it is. 

>> I don't know what your plans are. 

>> Mary: If you can reach out to us, we can connect you with our public media colleague in your area because while GBH is a national producer. We share resources with other stations. We also do local outreach and engagement as do several hundred stations across the country. I just think some of the most talented professionals out there. We would love to put you in touch. 

>> Nicki: We'll be happy to provide information. 

>> Jennifer: Remember they shared at the beginning, target age range is 3-6 year olds. 

>> We do encourage the whole family and siblings always. 

>> Mary: The 3 to 6:00 p.m. 

is more for the broadcast. 

They're going to watch and you will have a blast. 

>> What we have found is once we do targeted educational engagement, like this library program or some of the other ones, all kids are in the that group are going to have fun. Fours, fivers, and sixes are going to get more of a learning benefit from that experience. So, all kids are going to have fun but slightly older kids are really, the CT concept is going to be sticky for them.

>> Jennifer: Excellent. 

Thank you. There is a question about if there is anything in the Wombat programming to each hip-hop or poetry. 

>> Nicki: What's really fun is for problem decompositioning is all about putting the steps together for a dance. So, it is not teaching the dance skills necessarily, it is definitely using dance as a vehicle for teaching the CT scale. I don't think there is anything on Wombats teaching that specifically. 

I definitely encourage you to explore PBS Learning Media. There are a ton of programs and resources available for all different content areas and all different age groups. 

Definitely see if you can find anything there that meets your needs. 

>> What's on broadcast now is season one. 

>> Season two is in development right now. 

>> I got the script for all the season two episodes. 

Maybe there is a poetry one and if there is, we'll let you know. 

>> Jennifer: What's the sign-up process for libraries to become apart of this program? 

>> Nicki: None!

>> Jennifer: None? 

>> Mary: You have all the URL, you can go on. All the resources are free. I will say that Nicki and I, you have our e-mails and don't hesitate to contact us. We are happy to answer questions or troubleshoot something or if you want to share something. We would love to chat. 

>> Jennifer: Other notice somebody sharing - they were part of a program that did it for teens. I want to encourage folks that resources that are there are really great for advocating for this work as well. So, I would suggest, you know, and don't be afraid to suggest looking at this together as a team. The learner guide is a really great way to sort of loop people in if you are trying to, we know the reality is in some situations, you may be have one person that is really wants to do this and others that don't. So, we understand that. The learner guide kind of provides some of those questions that may help you think about and how to apply this and definitely lots of sort of entry level resources around computational thinking that would help folks get onboard to realizing they Kang do that in their programming. 

Any other thoughts on that? 

>> Mary: Oh, from us? Oh, you could not have said it better. 

>> Jennifer: I love this. 

Somebody said speaking of siblings, it could be 7 or 8 year olds. They actually did some of it with the seven and eight year olds who are interested. Those of you have family programming knows there are something in there for the oldest in the group and something in there for the youngest so being mindful of how to prepare for that range is super helpful. 

>> Nicki: Parents get so invested. We did one of Cause and Effect which is a domino run. We had kids pushing kids out of the way because they were so invested to make stuff work.

I think there are stuff in here for all ages. 

>> Jennifer: I love your video. The energy is PAPable in that room. Definitely, you can see the parents are engaged. All right, any other final thoughts before we wrap up? 

>> Nicki: Thank you everyone for joining and thank you so much for having us. It has been such a pleasure. 

>> Mary: Lovely. 

>> Jennifer: One more question of the size of the group. That depends on what you include in your program, you know, thinking about how knowing that families do engage with each other, so no that it feels more like people but leverage on the engagement of the group as well. Before presenting this program to patrons for the first time, are there any materials that you recommend gearing towards adults wanting to dive deeper. All resources on that library resource page is super helpful. I would encourage you to read through it all before you take your steps. 

All right, thank you so much, I am so excited to hear how folks bring this work to their libraries and thank you so much for bringing all of this information to us and for sharing your contact information. I will send you all an e-mail later today once the recording is available. I will also just put a note here that we do have 100 kits CT corner kits that GBH has provided. We can send to folks. I have put in chat. You got a preview there and the opportunity to fill out that form. There is a link also in the e-mail that I sent. 

So, know that you can be - hopefully, there are not too many folks here to compete. I will put that in chat and knowing that you can request that and through the e-mail I will send it to you later, and a certificate for attending. One more thing as you leave, I will send you to a short survey. 

We love to gather your feedback. We'll share it with Nicki and Mary. That link will be in your e-mail.

If you have to head back to the desk, know that you can circle back and get everything you need from there. Thank you all so much. Thank you again Mary and Nicki. 

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>> Nicki: Thank you, makes me want to go do some Wombats. 

>> Jennifer: Thank you so much, bye. 

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