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can I start where I started with the
library because we had lived in Napa for

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a number of years and moved to Meridian
I'm guessing about five years ago and I

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went to the Discovery Center and the
Discovery Center had some 3d printers

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and I go how how do you have gained
access to these 3d printers I I knew

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that things were changing and I'd like
to learn about them and they said oh

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well the Meridian library is opening a
library for this and so I was watching

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for the grand opening I think it was in
November three years ago so it was just

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an exciting time for me to gain access
to something that I knew was happening

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in the world of technology but I wasn't
ready to buy something it wasn't

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something that I knew how to how to do
so I wanted to learn they introduced me

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to Tinkercad and they said hey take this
home you can do this at home do these

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designs and then I would come back to
the library failure was the best

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learning experience I had so when
Unbound open it was really exciting

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because here was this place where so
much was available and I was introduced

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to the CNC machine because the 3d
printers were so busy I had to wait two

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weeks to get a print back so what I said
was what's that machine over in the

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corner and they said well that's a CNC
machine no one knows how to use it yet

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we keep trying but we don't know how and
I said well can I so that started this

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process and the more I got involved with
the CNC and the more I experienced

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people coming to the library looking for
things 3d printing and kids that would

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come and they'd get excited about all
these things they could do and the

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library had samples of 3d prints and I
started saying well I could teach some

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of these kids or adults about how the
CNC machine works and so and it gave me

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a chance to teach a class and then it
was really a lot of fun and I saw kids

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and
they just would light up as they saw

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something they could create of their own
and my one of my first experiences was a

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I think a 7 year old girl and I said
this is how this works she asked some

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questions and so she brought her little
brother over I was like 5 and oh look at

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how this works this is this is really
cool and I said well you could actually

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make something and she's what could I
make and I said we could carve your name

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into a piece of wood and she goes I can
really do that and I go yeah here's how

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you do it
and we took a pencil and wrote on a

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piece of paper and then took a picture
of it import it in the software and then

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we we worked on it and she was really
impressed it's just I want to do more so

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she went home she designed her own
little keychain with her name in a

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puzzle and she brought it back in and
said can we make this work it's an

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inspiring moment for me to watch someone
see what they can accomplish and the

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library make that possible and I thought
well I'm gonna I'm gonna contribute all

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I can to help people see this so my
youngest that ever came to a class was a

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five year old boy and and I've had
people who are retirees who've come and

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they want to learn something new and
some people have gone through this

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process and then either purchased or
built their own CNC machine others we I

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have relationships with who have tried
to start small businesses and we share

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materials I mean we started a small
community within the library it's been

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really exciting and and I always say
that was all possible because of the

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library because of the Meridian
libraries insight into seeing what a

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technology environment or creating an
environment where technology could be

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accessed was just amazed I've never seen
anything like that before