Events

The library will be open an extra hour to provide quiet browsing and inclusive programming for individuals of all ages with special sensory needs and their families or care-givers. In addition to computer availability and access to library materia...

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Students preparing to enter 6-12th grades in the fall will have enormous fun playing life-sized Pac Man and full-body soccer with a 4 foot tall ball!

Registration is required and will open 3 weeks prior to the event. Unregistered participants ar...

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Students preparingn to enter 6-12th grades are invited to take a trip into secret meetings, dangerous minds, and unknown clues. Become a passenger on the S.S. Carnage to help find the killer, or maybe be the killer yourself! You choose to be a par...

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You won’t be bored in this event that is part choose your own adventure, part life-sized board game, part Adulting 101, and 100% fun. For students who will be entering 6-12th grades in the fall.

Registration is required and will open 3 weeks pr...

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Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? Stop in the library to find out! Drop in and complete several training exercises that will test your physical fitness, language skills, math and science knowledge and more. Participants who visit a...

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Do you have what it takes to become an astronaut? Stop in the library to find out! Drop in and complete several training exercises that will test your physical fitness, language skills, math and science knowledge and more. Participants who visit a...

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All supplies will be provided for making s’mores with heat from the sun! Each participant will go home with a re-usable, solar-powered, s’more making device and have a chance to eat a gooey s’more or two at the library. For students entering...

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Participants will design their own paper rockets and compete to see whose rocket launches the farthest. If there is time remaining after rocket launching, we will make Shrinky Dinks. For students entering 6-12th grades in the fall.

Registration i...

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Come visit the Waukee Public Library booth at the 5th Annual Waukee Arts Festival in Centennial Park. We’ll have FREE crafts for both kids and adults, and the Book Bike will be on the scene handing out Library Swag.

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Choose your teammates wisely and bring all your brain-power to try to save the planet! NASA needs your help to crack the lock on a missing employee’s safe. The safe holds a coded message from aliens that could determine the fate of intergalactic...

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