For immediate release: March 2, 2020<\/p>\n
Douglas County Libraries in Roxborough (8357 N. Rampart Range Rd. #200) recently launched its new Mission Control playscape, offering kids an out of this world play experience! Located in the children\u2019s area of the library, the interactive playscape invites kids to explore, discover and soar using their imaginations.<\/p>\n
Mission Control is a museum-quality installation that features a standalone rocket and other playful facets of a mission control room. Kids can dress up in spacesuits, climb aboard the rocket, run a \u201csystems check,\u201d and prepare for blast-off using their imaginations and the provided play materials, equipment and devices.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m impressed with how busy Mission Control has been in the short time since its installation. There\u2019s an almost constant countdown going on, \u201810, 9, 8, \u2026\u2019\u201d said Roxborough Branch Manager Amy Fischer. \u201cThe aerospace industry is such a big part of the heritage of our Roxborough community, and this fits right in with the families who visit our branch, those working in aerospace and other STEM industries.\u201d<\/p>\n
For kids, it\u2019s an exciting addition to the children\u2019s offerings at the library.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a rocketship! Oh, wow!\u201d exclaimed one child, running into the library.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose aren\u2019t astronauts, they\u2019re aliens!\u201d shrieked another child.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoxborough, we have a problem \u2026\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no right way to play,\u201d said Jaime Gotlieb, interim branch manager lead with Douglas County Libraries. \u201cThe playscapes at Douglas County Libraries give children a break from technology and get them back to free play. In Roxborough, kids can create what playing \u2018astronaut\u2019 means to them. We offer the pieces, and they show us how they want to use them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Roxborough library is the latest branch of Douglas County Libraries to install this type of self-guided play environment. The Castle Pines branch is home to the Little Letters Post Office, Highlands Ranch features The Market, and Lone Tree offers the Playful Pets animal clinic and grooming spa.<\/p>\n
Douglas County Libraries elevates our community by inspiring a love of reading, discovery and connection.<\/p>\n