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  • Teen Tech Week is a national initiative aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens are competent and ethical users of technologies, especially those that are offered through libraries. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to use libraries' nonprint resources for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals in the field of information technology.

    This Teen Tech Week™ (March 10 - 16, 2013), YALSA invites you to Check In @ your library! This year’s theme encourages libraries to throw open their physical and virtual doors to teens and showcase the outstanding technology they offer, from services such as online homework help and digital literacy-focused programs to resources like e-books, movies, music, audiobooks, databases and more.

    The SHS library is sponsoring a Teen Tech Week contest during the week of March 11-15, 2013.  To enter the contest you must pick up an entry form from your first block teacher or Mrs. Crowder in the library.  You must complete five activities in a row on the entry form (vertically, horizontally, or diagonally).  The directions for each activity are listed on the back of the entry form.  Mrs. Crowder must have the evidence that you have completed all five activities in order to be entered into the drawing for a technology prize pack.  The entry form must be turned in to Mrs. Crowder by 3:15 p.m. on March 15, 2013 to be eligible for the drawing.  Only one entry form per person will be accepted.

    Please see Mrs. Crowder in the library if you have any questions about this contest.  You can also visit the library website for more details.  The Franklin and Courtland branches of the Blackwater Regional Library are also participating in Teen Tech Week.  Visit http://www.blackwaterlib.org for details about their contests.