May 2010 Teen Programs

TAB (Teen Advisory Board) Meetings, Mondays, May 3rd & 17th, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Calling all High School Students! Do you like kids and Books? Are you interested in volunteering a few hours a week at the Library over the summer? We'd love your help as reading mentors to K-8th grade Summer Reading Program participants. It's a fun and easy way to earn community service credit for the following school year! Please attend one of the May TAB meetings to sign up to help, OR call and leave a message for Kaelyn: 865-7216 or send her an email: kmurray@ci.burlington.vt.us.

Teens Read! wednesdays, May 5th, 12th & 19th, 5:00-5:45 p.m. Participate in a book group for Middle & High School students and get started reading! Free. Students in 6th grade & up welcome. Please call the Youth desk for more information or to preregister: 865-7216.

After School Video Gaming for Middle Schoolers. Tuesdays and Thursdays May 4th through 27th, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Join other teens after school and play a variety of Wii and PS2 games. Free. Middle School students welcome. No preregistration needed.

Teen Movie Night! Saturday, May 22nd, 2:00-5:00 p.m. Join us for movies and snacks! Movie options are: The Cat Returns, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service and Spirited Away. Free. Middle & High School Students welcome! No preregistration needed.

January 2010 Teen Programs

Teens Read!
Wednesdays, January 20th & 27th, 5:00-5:45 p.m.
Participate in a book group for middle schoolers. Free. 6th to 8th graders welcome. Call the Libary Youth Desk for info and to preregister: 865-7216.

After School Video Gaming for Middle Schoolers.
Tuesdays & Thursdays, January 4th through 28th 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Join other teens and play a variety of Wii and PS2 games. Free. Middle School students welcome. No preregistration needed.

Weekend Video Games for Teens.
Sundays, January 10th & 24th, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Join other teens and and play Guitar Hero, Wii, Rock Band and a variety of PS2 games. Free. Middle & High School Students welcome. No preregistration needed.

New Program!!!
After School Video Gaming for Middle Schoolers!

Come and join us after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays and play Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers, Madden and more! Look for us upstairs in the Fletcher or Pickering rooms from 3:30-5:00 December 10th, 15th, 21st and 22nd! Contact Kaelyn with any questions or concerns: kaelyn.murray@ci.burlington.vt.us

Teen Video Gaming on Sunday, December 2oth!

Meet in the Community Room (basement) 1:00-4:00 p.m. for Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Mario Kart and more! We will also be gaming on Sunday, January 10th and Sunday, January 24th. Contact Kaelyn with any questions or concerns: kaelyn.murray@ci.burlington.vt.us

November Teen Programs

TAB (Teen Advisory Board) Meeting, Mondays, November 2, 16 & 30, 4:00 p.m. High schoolers: be a part of the process! Help decide what goes into the Young Adult (Teen) collection, and what activities we will have for teens. This could count toward your community service graduation requirement. Please call Rebecca Goldberg for more information or to sign up: 865-7216.

Teens Read! Wednesdays, November 4, 18 & 25, 5:00-5:45 p.m. Participate in a book group for middle schoolers and get started reading. Free. 6th-8th grade students welcome. Please call the Youth Desk to find out what book is currently being discussed and to preregister: 865-7216.


Celebrate National Gaming Day @ Your Library. Saturday, November 14th, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Join yeens from around the U.S. as you try your hand at Guitar Hero, Wii, Rock Band and a variety of PS2 games. Free. Middle and high school students welcome! No preregistration needed.

Game Tournaments in the Community Room

We rocked out in the library's basement again last Friday...

And are planning either a Videogame Triathalon or a championship series to earn points in tournaments towards a grand prize. Thoughts? Ideas?

Vacation Gaming on the last Saturday!

RockBand made its debut at Fletcher Free Library!

James rocks out on the drums, arguably the most bodacious instrument

RockBand can have both bass and guitar playing together

CJ is all about the vocals

Volunteer David scrambles to keep up with two-mat DDR

Volunteer Emilie finds that RockBand vocals might be her calling


















Guitar Hero I-III is always an option


















Joe decided playing some Smash wasn't a bad way to celebrate his birthday!

Friends join him and battle it out on the big screen













Getting comfy in the Community Room







Enjoying the pizza generously donated by Big Daddy's

Super Smashdown in Brawl

On Sunday, March 30, almost 30 gamers came out to try their hand against new opponents.

Getting ready for tournament play, players practice their moves on Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Luckily we had some loaned Wiis and games so most of Brawl was already unlocked

In the Brawl tournament, players had two-minute limit matches in Battlefield. Each player kept one character for all matches, and Kirby and Meta were popular choices. Many thanks to Ben from Champlain College for running the tournament, and to Emilie for filming it!

Here are the finals of the 12-player tournament!

The winners were James, playing Ike, who won a $25 GameStop gift card and Ben, playing Lucario, who took second place. Both characters were new with Brawl!

Wii sports were also popular-- tennis, golf, boxing and baseball!






























Gamers also practiced their moves at Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero II















Sam from Quarterstaff Games played Magic with fans and added another layer to the event...

"Heroes and Revolutions" Teen Tech Week Gaming

The Community Room was transformed into a rockin party last Friday after school. DDR and Wii stations were open-play for new players for the afternoon.


The Guitar Hero tournament showed off some impressive skills. Thanks for all your energy and commitment to fairness! We were able to put together a 16-player bracket , with $25 at GameStop at stake. Brian's reputation preceded him, and it did win out in the end after contests with Derrick and then Owen in the finals. Congrats, dude.




The tournament was filmed by Blaise and Shepherd and we plan to show some footage on Channel 17. We'll let you know when!Shepherd won the "Dig Beyond Google" contest, with 13 correct answers from tricky sites on the internet. Both he and Aaron found that there are 4 Looneyvilles in the US, and used GoogleEarth to check the geography of Boston Common.

And we enjoyed birthday cake in honor of Will F., thanks to a generous donation from Pricechopper. Other snacks were courtesy of City Market!

See you next time-- Sunday, March 30-- more details coming soon! It will depend on your recommendations: what do you think? Super Smash Bros? Rock band? More stations, even if they are smaller TVs? Can anyone ever defeat Brian? ..... comment.....

First Game Tournament Results

Games were played, pizza was eaten, and the music prize for DDR was awarded... to Peter Carlisle.

Next up: Friday, March 7, 3-5:30pm. We'll have another big screen projector, and a larger flatscreen TV.

More changes are being considered at our next Teen Advisory Board meeting, this Wednesday the 27th from 7-8:30pm.

Tournaments will be regular-- and soon, points will be awarded towards a championship season.

Aaron and John Honing Guitar Hero skills...
4-player Naruto on Wii
The impressive dance -off for the prize: Peter vs Mimi

...a group gathers for Guitar Hero. This station will be a projector next time!Onlookers sign up for Wii sports.. this TV will also be bigger next time

Games? In the Library?

Fletcher Free Library would like to host monthly open-play gaming tournaments! We're looking for volunteers to lend their console or game for a few hours, to help set up the event, and to spread the word! Give Cara a ring if you'd like to help make this happen: 865-7228. The tournaments will take probably place on a weekend late afternoon, once a month. They will be free and hopefully include food and prizes. Once we get a few going, it will be easier and easier to make game nights a regular event.... Click "comment" to give feedback!
To read about popular gaming programs at other libraries, check out: http://libgaming.blogspot.com/