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PPL Alum
PPL welcomes individuals from all walks of life and each has a unique story to tell — stories that illustrate the positive impact our library makes in the lives of those we serve. Stories that YOU make possible!
Meet some of our PPL Alum.
Jeffrey Tejada
As a junior at Brown University, I got into the Bonner Community Program – the purpose of which is to get students to engage with and do some service for the community. When the people at PPL said they were hoping to start a tutoring program, I knew it was something I could do here. ...
Brenda Adames
PPL is one of the coolest libraries because of our state-of-the-art Workshop. People can come in and learn to laser cut, sew, 3-D print and more…there’s just so much available to the community here. And we’re not just training people on how to use the equipment, but also real life skills like how to write ...
Luis Mejia
I was in school when my teacher told me to try to find an ACN class and I was going through the course catalog when I found something interesting. I had done a computer science essential, which had python in it, which is a coding language. So when I saw HTML/CSS, I became interested because ...