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In observance of Black History Month we’ll be highlighting African American scientists, inventors, mathematicians and engineers. Unfortunately too little is known about Sarah Boone but what we do know is astounding. She was the first African American woman to receive a patent for an invention. This is amazing in itself but her patent was published in 1892. Not only was Sarah an inventor but a...

The Do Space Volunteer Program supports everything we do at Do Space. Before we opened, I reflected on what sort of volunteer opportunities we would have for the Omaha community and how we would make sure the community is reflected in everything we do. Do Space was not built for Omaha but rather with Omaha. Our volunteers come from all different walks of life that are looking to give back and...

Not everyone realizes that we have a great technical eBook collection for checkout via Overdrive. We're working on adding more titles monthly ranging from A+ Certification study guides to the highly popular Hidden Figures.  Here's a sample of one of my favorites What If? by XKCD creator Randal...

The Legal Information Reference Center offers legal information from over three-hundred and ten sources on a variety of different subjects including business law, financial planning, real estate and more. This resource also makes legal forms available adding to the convenience. To make this resource more convenient there is a search available that allows you to gather information by State keeping...

If you’re a dedicated member of the Do Space community, you may have noticed that we haven’t offered teen-specific programming recently.  The Do Space learning staff have been working on relaunching our programming with a focus on project challenges to tackle issues in our community, and we are proud to announce that it’s ready! On Thursday, February 23rd at 5:00 PM we will be having the...

I've been using a Chromebook for almost two years now and that whole time I was completely unaware of thier built-in tools for those with visual imparments. The technology, known as ChromeVox has gone through a recent upgrade and and many new features. Worldwide, 285 million people are visually impaired; 39 million are blind and 246 million experience low vision. As two people with visual...

Not all of the links on our Resources page are going to teach you how to code or help you write that term paper you've been assigned. Some of them are just plain fun. And I, as someone who's first video game was Pong which was quickly replaced by the local video game arcade and my trusty Atari 2600 (yes, I still have it and it still works!) I find The Internet Arcade to be an amazing...

In observance of Black History Month we’ll be highlighting African American scientists, inventors, mathematicians and engineers. If you think that you have not heard of Mae Jemison, you’re wrong. Mae Jemison was born in Alabama in 1956 but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. In 1977 she earned her bachelor degree in chemical engineering from Stanford. She followed with her doctorate in medicine...

The folks over at 3D Hubs have and amazing knowledgebase of articles related to 3D printing. These articles range from explaining the different type of 3D printing to post-processing of prints. While I highly recommend all of the articles available, this week I just wanted to point you at one in particular; the one that explains what supports are and why they're necessary in the 3D Printing...

As a tech-enabler Do Space likes to point our patrons in the right direction, especially when it comes to learning resources. One of the many learning resources listed on the ‘Resources’ page of our Do Space website is a very helpful and free interactive website called Codecademy. Created in 2011 Codecademy.com is an interactive platform that offers users access to free coding tutorials in 12...