This year’s theme is mathematics.
Join us from Monday, Sept 19 to Friday, Sept 23rd for a week long celebration of science at BCIT Library.
During SLW, we will be posting a math puzzle daily to the Loop and to our Instagram (bcitlib). Enter for a chance to win a fabulous prize!
Math videos available for you to stream:
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
For more info and some great resources visit SLW 2022.
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