Whiz Kid
Double the Ingenuity for These Twin Library Volunteers
Sona and Ajay Jain serve as secretary and president of the Elmhurst Public Library Middle School Advisory Board to keep kids their age involved in programming designed especially for them.
Name: Sona and Ajay Jain Age: 13 School: Homeschooled by their Mom, Charlene Jain Achievement: Ajay designed a curriculum and taught a class using Scratch, a video game software; Sona serves as the secretary of the Advisory Board. Both are general assistants and volunteer weekly at Elmhurst Public Library. Key to Awesomeness: While taking a robotics class, eighth-grader Ajay Jain discovered a software developed by MIT called Scratch. “I was super interested,” Ajay says. “So I downloaded it and taught it to myself.” The program allows the user to create interactive stories, animations, games, music and art. So Ajay wrote up a curriculum for a three-week course and presented the idea to Kimberly Scott, middle school services librarian at the…
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