CHEPSTOW Library has been awarded a share of £70,000 worth of funding to promote its new coding project.
The library will be awarded between £10,000 and £15,000 from the Carnegie UK Trust to help promote its project The Ideas Garage.
The project will create a community-led coding space for young people aged 11 to 17 to help them gain experience in coding to create and develop websites.
The library was one of seven selected from across the UK and Ireland to benefit from the funds, which form part of the Carnegie UK Trust’s “Library Lab” project. Claire Lewis, a business support officer at Chepstow Library, said: “The Ideas Garage will be a space to allow young people to learn more about coding and build their own websites. Our aim is for it to evolve into a maker/hacker space where we can introduce 3D printing and have a digital fabrication lab.We intend to collaborate with Coderdojo, a company that offers free coding clubs for young people.”
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