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Teen Advisory Board

Oct 012024
 

Teens, now is your chance! We just won a grant to explore culture through food and we need you! The plan is to share food from various cultures and look at how that food was influenced by other cultures. We’ll cook, we’ll eat, we do related projects. This is a youth-led program so you will have a lot of say in how it goes. You will also learn leadership skills and help the library be a better place for Norristown Area teens.

Here are the facts:

Regular attendance is required 2x a month on Wednesday afternoons/evenings (4:30-6pm? – you help us decide, could do Fridays if enough students want it). We hope to start in late October 2024 and go until June 2025.

We’ll meet at the library, but the library will be moving to the PennDot building up Markley Street (behind the Royal Farms Store) later in the winter. You will have to get there for the last 3-4 months. It is 9/10th of a mile away from our current location on Powell Street.

There is no cost to you. All the food and supplies are paid for by the grant.

We hope you will share recipes from your house with us, but it is not required.

If you are interested, email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org.  Don’t wait, space if filling up.

This is a great activity to put on college applications and resumes, btw.

Monday Art for Teens

Sep 272024
 

DROP IN ART

Drop in to create some art. Socialize. De-stress. Develop your skills. Whatever. We’ll have mini-projects to try together and open supplies like watercolors, markers, and colored pencils for you to do your own thing too. Ages 12+

4-5pm most Mondays during the school year.

Questions? Email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org.

Blackout Poetry Night

Sep 202024
 

See details and register at our event listing at https://mnl.libcal.com/event/13213510

(There will be pizza!)

Summer reading prize winners!

Jul 172024
 

Congrats to Kevin G. for winning the first $25 gift certificate!

Download the beanstack app, choose Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library and then the Norristown TEEN Challenge. Log some reading time and be entered to win. Gift cards are for Chickfila, Chipotle, XBox, Playstation, Roblox, Google Play, etc.

Comic Fest 2024

May 102024
 

 

 

 

Thank you, Montgomery County, Norristown & surrounding neighbors for a great Comic Fest 2024!

Here are results of various contests and votes:

Cosplay Winners:

Under 10: Barbie             11-17: Queen of Hearts              18+: Drago

Art Contest Winners:

Fan Art: Jason Rodriguez, TMNT          Original Character: Anabel S., Lilac         Short Comic: Veyda Eisele

Fandom Voting (winner in bold):

Pikachu 77 vs. Charizard 76     Marvel 79 vs. DC 86     Ursula 34 vs. Maleficent 43     Naruto 40 vs. Sailor Moon 55     Jiji 34 vs. Totoro 39     Empire 46 vs. Rebels 62     One Piece 40 vs. Demon Slayer 48

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comic Fest was held at Norristown Public Library on SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2024:

Comic Fest is an annual event that is fun for kids, teens, & adults. All are welcome. Entry is free.

Attendees received a program, free lanyard, and snack tickets. Between scheduled programs patrons saw costumes & characters, voted their fandom, shopped artist alley, played games, created  buttons & comic books, admired fan art, and more.  Members of Kyber Base were here in Star Wars costume. Sonic, Pikachu, and Belle also made appearances. Gamers enjoyed the giant game truck parked outside. Separate gaming was set up for younger children in the children’s department upstairs. All day teen and adult gaming was held in the community room. See below for timed elements of the day.

10-11am: Sonic character visit

10am-1:30pm: GameTruck outside our Powell Street entrance

11am-12noon: Pikachu character visit, trading card game tournaments

11:30: Comic Writing Workshop with Keville Bowen

12noon: Comic Art Drawing Class with Jason Rodriguez (ages 9-15)

1pm: Trivia

1:30: Artist Showdown

2pm: Cosplay Contest ($50 prizes in three age categories)

Artists in attendance included: Keville Bowen, Jason Rodriguez, Dawn Griffin, Jun Yi, Nic Hwang, Connor Peterson, Rose Moran, Zeta230, Steve Peters, and cosplay designer Cali Eisele.

Check out some photos from 2023 Comic Fest…

       

 

Look for us again in August 2025!

Adventurer’s Guild

Apr 222024
 

 

 

 

 

Thumbnail by Johan Nohr

Adventurer’s Guild (in person)

Date: Thursdays

Time: 4pm-6pm

Location: Teen Area, Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library

Audience: Teens

Categories: Gaming

Roll dice and wreak havoc with our weekly tabletop roleplaying program! We’ll be playing Free League Publishing’s MORK BORG, a “pitch black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world.” Pencils, paper and dice are all provided, just bring your creativity!

Battle of the Coral Sea (WWII)

Apr 102024
 

 

 

 

Tuesdays, October 8, 15, 22 at 2:30pm.

The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first of the four epic Pacific War aircraft carrier duels of 1942.It marked the very first time the carrier aircraft of each side met to shoot it out in the skies. It was the first time each navy could see how they matched up against one another’s best and how effective they were at sinking each other’s warships. The results produced some surprising results for both sides. The outcome would have profound effects on future battles on the oceans as well as on the course of the wider war. See how this battle actually unfolded and how the winners won and why the losers lost. (Three 40-45 minute meetings, each followed by 5-10 minute discussion.)

Presenter Ray Rossa

Ray has had a strong interest in the military which developed throughout childhood to the present day. Subsequently, he served as an active-duty commissioned officer with the United States military and was assigned to the Armor School at Fort Knox, Kentucky. His active service in a combat unit provides a unique, first-hand experience background. After his honorable discharge his keen interest in military history continued to build. Consequently, Ray has invested thousands of hours researching military history topics both online and by studying the most authoritative printed texts. An experienced presenter, he is able to explain the most complex concepts in clear, logical and easy to understand terms and vivid word pictures.

He has delivered seminars for a wide range of organizations, including: historical societies, veterans’ and other service organizations, colleges, public libraries and senior living communities. He earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from West Chester University, West Chester, PA and taught credit and non-credit courses for DeVry University as well as Montgomery and Delaware County Community colleges.

 

Registration preferred, but drop-ins are welcome!  Register at https://mnl.libcal.com/event/13153962

 

Email Jeanne at JCove@mclinc.org with questions. There is no fee.

 

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