Conway Public Library wraps up Mission to Mars

Mission to Mars session three campers with Conway Public Library Assistant Director Jeff Beavers (back row, third from left) and Project Succeed staff member Daiyana Opio (front row, left). (COURTESY PHOTO)

CONWAY — In three short weeks of imagining, creating and tinkering, 21 campers successfully launched rockets 300-plus feet into the air, 3D printed Martian colonies and constructed and programmed Martian rovers to collect samples from the surface.

If you visited the Conway Public Library lately, you may have heard a robotic whir coming from the teen area. That lovely music is made by none other than the new 3D printers, working away at building all the rocket pieces necessary for the library's first-ever Mission to Mars.

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