Welcome to the Cooper-Siegel Community Library Teen Page!
Teen Programs
Attention Teens!!!
We need your help!
Looking for volunteer hours this summer? Want to help out at the Library?
Click the link below to fill out our volunteer application
Code Club is back with Fiero Code!
Coming in Person this Summer!!! Sign up now and you can code at home!
Code Club is for Tweens and Teens is back!!! Learn coding languages through our game software called Fiero Code. Coders work at their own pace and can choose which coding languages they want. It’s fun and educational!!
You can check out the coding software here and make a free account anytime:
PA Driver’s Practice Test App
PennDOT has created an app where you can practice the driver’s exam before taking the test! You can download the app for practice questions to study for your drivers exam, or refresh your knowledge and become the best driver you can be! The app also hosts information for licensed drivers to stay safe and informed! Click the links below for the app store that works with your device and get ready to ride!
Events
- yet: Mixed Media Art by bailzon March 14, 2025 at 5:56 pm
03/10/25 @ 12:00am - 03/15/25 @ 12:00am Sharpsburg bailz (bailey zembower) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and advocate. Their work is inspired by observing cycles in nature and Self to create about connection, transformation, and imperfection. With early training focused on music, dance, and sewing, bailz has been primarily self taught in their visual art practices. They have experimented with media over the years as a way to communicate and process lived experience as a queer, mad, disabled person. bailz primarily works with found or upcycled materials - intending to ask viewers to rethink consumption as well as to heal the parts of themself that felt disposable while surviving seasons of life inside hospital systems. bailz is committed to empowering young people and communities via equitable access to the arts and by creating brave spaces to express and learn. Through their work as a teaching artist and performer, they hope to provide the communities they are a part of with varied access points for visibility, support, and resources as we move together beyond survival.yet. explores the journey from protection to empowerment and is an expression of gratitude for the support and witnessing from creative community. bailz has maintained a visual journaling practice for decades, often finding that it was safer and more accurate to document their experience in colors, patterns, and multimedia collages. Many of the pieces in this show are collaborations with themself from 10-15 years ago, when they were making choices out of survival and protection. in creating this show, they returned to sketchbooks from the past to continue or rework their own art while in healing conversation with their past selves - bringing them into the present and giving themself what they would have needed to feel empowered back then. Early in their experience of surviving the mental health system, someone told them that “yet is a word of hope” - when something hasn’t happened yet, we have the power and space to influence the outcome. To celebrate and honor the community that has empowered them, yet.yet will be on view daily through Saturday 3/29. 25% of each sale will benefit the library.A closing reception with bailz will be held on Saturday 3/1, 12pm-1:30pm. Prior to the reception, bailz is hosting a community choreography class and movement parade at Art in Motion (1001 Main Street Floor 2). More information may be found at bailzjustbeing.com
- yet: Mixed Media Art by bailzon March 14, 2025 at 5:56 pm
03/17/25 @ 12:00am - 03/22/25 @ 12:00am Sharpsburg bailz (bailey zembower) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and advocate. Their work is inspired by observing cycles in nature and Self to create about connection, transformation, and imperfection. With early training focused on music, dance, and sewing, bailz has been primarily self taught in their visual art practices. They have experimented with media over the years as a way to communicate and process lived experience as a queer, mad, disabled person. bailz primarily works with found or upcycled materials - intending to ask viewers to rethink consumption as well as to heal the parts of themself that felt disposable while surviving seasons of life inside hospital systems. bailz is committed to empowering young people and communities via equitable access to the arts and by creating brave spaces to express and learn. Through their work as a teaching artist and performer, they hope to provide the communities they are a part of with varied access points for visibility, support, and resources as we move together beyond survival.yet. explores the journey from protection to empowerment and is an expression of gratitude for the support and witnessing from creative community. bailz has maintained a visual journaling practice for decades, often finding that it was safer and more accurate to document their experience in colors, patterns, and multimedia collages. Many of the pieces in this show are collaborations with themself from 10-15 years ago, when they were making choices out of survival and protection. in creating this show, they returned to sketchbooks from the past to continue or rework their own art while in healing conversation with their past selves - bringing them into the present and giving themself what they would have needed to feel empowered back then. Early in their experience of surviving the mental health system, someone told them that “yet is a word of hope” - when something hasn’t happened yet, we have the power and space to influence the outcome. To celebrate and honor the community that has empowered them, yet.yet will be on view daily through Saturday 3/29. 25% of each sale will benefit the library.A closing reception with bailz will be held on Saturday 3/1, 12pm-1:30pm. Prior to the reception, bailz is hosting a community choreography class and movement parade at Art in Motion (1001 Main Street Floor 2). More information may be found at bailzjustbeing.com
- Code Clubon March 14, 2025 at 5:56 pm
03/17/25 @ 4:30pm - 03/17/25 @ 5:30pm Sharpsburg Drop-ins welcome as space permits. Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (SCL). Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program. Registration is required. Registration starts: 02/13/2025 @ 4:30pm Registration end: 03/17/2025 @ 4:30pm Learn to code at our monthly program using game style learning software, Fiero Code!Coders work at their own pace and can choose which coding languages they want to learn. It’s fun and educational! Mr. Brad will be here every month to help troubleshoot and hang out.You can check out the coding software below and make a free account anytime. Once you sign up, you can begin coding from home as well.This program is for tweens and teens in grades 4-9.This staff-led program is FREE - donations appreciated. Parking is available at the library and the 13th Street Municipal Lot (metered). Library is accessible via PRT's 91 and 1 bus routes -- get off at 13th Street.
E-Books and More
Homework and Testing Help
The library provides research assistance and access to computers and the Internet for free! There are study rooms and study areas throughout the library. Research help is available from library staff and through online resources.
Tutor.com is a resource paid for by our library system, which provides online tutoring help for grades K-12. All you need is your library card and a computer with internet access. Tutors are available to help with homework from 12PM – 12AM every day (even on the weekends!). Preparing for the GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT or GRE? Find help and practice tests on Tutor.com as well!
School Reading Lists
Fox Chapel Area School District:
Shady Side Academy and Country Day:
Winchester Thurston: