Seeking Forward-Thinking, Futures-Focused Libraries to Participate in the Young Futures’ Oops!...AI Did It Again Challenge!

[Gail Hurley]

 

Seeking Forward-Thinking, Futures-Focused Libraries to Participate in the Young Futures’ Oops!...AI Did It Again Challenge!

The CT State Library Division of Library Development (DLD) has been selected as a grant recipient of the Young Futures’ Oops!... AI Did It Again Challenge, its first dedicated funding initiative for nonprofits at the intersection of youth and AI.

What is it? GIANT Remix Stations: AI-Powered Creative Storytelling Program for Youth in Connecticut Public Libraries

The Connecticut State Library in partnership with The GIANT Room will expand a defined set of supervised, pop-up “GIANT Remix Stations” in public libraries to provide hands-on AI literacy and creative storytelling experiences for young people ages 10-19 and their caregivers.

 

What do you get? Program Deliverables

 

Participating libraries will receive librarian training, community co-design sessions, installation/operation of stations in libraries, creation/publication of youth artifacts (books/trading cards), and digital access to creations.

 

Why? Libraries as Accessible Learning Hubs

Many families and young people lack access to emerging technologies and AI tools at home.

This project utilizing GIANT Remix Stations:

• Enables public libraries to serve as equitable, free, community-based access points for safe and creative AI learning

 

• Ensures equitable access to emerging technology, creative AI learning, and safe digital play in supervised public settings

 

• Strengthens libraries as accessible, modern learning hubs where youth can safely explore AI-supported creativity, build critical thinking and digital agency, and create tangible artifacts that promote pride, belonging, and social connection

 

Who Gets to Participate? YOU DO! There is no cost to this grant funded program.

We are currently recruiting libraries in and outside of CT to participate in this project.

If you are interested in participating, please reach out to me at dawn.l...@ct.gov or Suzanne Kiss at Suzanne...@ct.gov by Friday, May 1, 2026.

For more details, please visit the Young Futures LibGuide!  

 

Thank you,

Dawn

 

 

Dawn La Valle |Director, Division of Library Development | Dawn.l...@ct.gov | Hartford Office: (860) 757-6507|
http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/dld/home | 231 Capitol Ave. Hartford CT 06106 |

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