SUMMARY:
J’orge Garcia loves making things. For several years at the Chicago Public Library, he helped people to design and build their own creations with educational tools like the Finch Robot. With basic coding skills, J’orge and his students could program the little, bird-shaped bot to sing, light up, or drive along a path. The experience inspired him to look for finches in his own neighborhood. On Bring Birds Back, J’orge shares how his passion for technology and nature led him to found the Windy City Bird Lab, a community-science group that’s inventing new tools to study urban birds.
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