Students involved in Kid's Innovation Playground, a nonprofit after-school program that leads STEAM activities, will be displaying its Santa's North Pole Village from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 3 at the North Trails Public Library, located at 1553 W. Sunbury Road.

Lorraine Shaffer, executive director and founder of Kid's Innovation Playground, said the event will include the viewing of the students' created village and cookies with Santa.

Fourteen students spent four weeks in the Arts and Bots program, where they planned, programmed and created the village. Featured models will be of snowmen, Santa popping out of a chimney and even a Starbucks coffee shop.

“The kids come up with their ideas,” Shaffer said. “They brainstormed for an hour and a half and thought about what they wanted with movement and lights. They were able to be themselves and we helped them.”

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