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Need an Escape?

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The BCIT Library’s fourth Escape Room – Lost in the Halls : The First Day Dilemma is up and running. Imagine the scenario – you are a brand-new student on their first day of school at BCIT. The trouble is, you have lost your admittance letter that contains the details about your new student orientation. Attendance is mandatory, no exceptions. You better act quickly – you have 45 minutes to find that letter before time runs out so you can make it to your orientation, or else…

Several groups of students and two teams of employees have taken part. We are happy to report everyone was able to navigate their way through the challenges (with a few hints) and earned the right to call themselves Escape Artists. This is a real achievement, because participants need to work together to successfully solve each puzzle before the clock runs out.

We hope everyone had a good time in the Escape Room, because we had a great time creating it. If you are interested in trying it out there are two sessions running on BCIT PD Day.  

If you’d like to arrange for a session for your team (of staff or students) please contact us: Deirdre Grace or Alison Griffin 

Free workshops, tours and events

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CONNECT FEST, coming up April 26-30, is a five day celebration of lifelong learning and connection presented by SFU, the City of Burnaby, BCIT and many organizations, including Burnaby School District,  MOSAIC, United Way, Burnaby Public Library.

Sessions, workshops and tours presented by BCIT include:

All Festival events are open to Burnaby community members, free of charge, and most require registration.
Register for any of the BCIT events listed above here: https://bcit.libcal.com/

Find all the amazing Festival sessions here – https://connectfest.ca/all-events-at-a-glance/

 

Science Literacy Week

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September 18th-24th 2023 is Science Literacy Week and this year’s theme is Energy!

To celebrate you can:

Find all the details here.

And find many other free Science Literacy Week events for all ages taking place at libraries across Canada.

 

Burnaby Festival of Learning

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The Burnaby Festival of Learning is a multi-day festival of lifelong learning taking place in venues throughout Burnaby (including BCIT!)

From May 5th – 9th there are five full days of thought-provoking community-led events and programming.

There’s truly something for everyone and all events are free!

BCIT workshops include:

Just a few of the other great sessions being offerered by other Festival partners:

Check out all the events here: https://festivaloflearning.ca/events/

All events are free, but many require registration!

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Book Club Meeting – January 10th

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The Any Book Book Club is meeting Thursday, January 10th.

We’re the easiest book club around – no required reading, just good conversation!

We’ll be talking about what we read over the break and what we want to read in the new year.

We’re here to help you keep your reading resolution!

Join us on January 10, from 12:30 – 1:30 at the black couches on the main floor of the Burnaby Campus Library.

New and lapsed members always welcome!

Books we discussed at our December book club meeting:

We’ve made our list – Best Reads 2018

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Looking forward to reading some good books over the holidays?
Thinking about a perfect gift for the readers in your life?
Well, we’ve made our list and checked it twice – so check out BCIT Library’s Best Reads 2018 guide.
Happy holidays!

Book Club – December 5th – 12:30 – 1:30

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Staff, faculty and students are invited to the next Any Book Book Club Meeting – Dec 5, 12:30 – 1:30, Burnaby Campus Library, black couches, main floor.

Drop by and let us know what you’ve been reading or what you plan to read!

Here’s a round up of the titles we discussed at our November meeting:

Book Club – November 1st Meeting

•Monkey Beach and Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
•Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
•The Dome by Stephen King
•Old World by Cary Fagan
•The Beaverton Presents Glorious and/or Free by Alex Huntley
•Temp : How American Work, American Business and the American Dream became Temporary / Louis Hyman
•Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAffee
•21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari.
•Prediction Machines by Ajay Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb and Joshua Gans

November 1st, 12:30 – the Any Book Book Club is meeting again!

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Book club is meeting again on November 1st, at 12:30 at the black couches on the main floor of the Burnaby Campus Library. Drop by and talk about any book you’ve read or are interested in. It really couldn’t be easier!  Last month, these are the titles we talked about:

 

 

Authorized! with Christopher Siu

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Christopher Siu is a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at BCIT. We asked him to tell us about his book that has just been published by CRC Press and this is what he had to say:

Christopher Siu

Chris Siu

I joined BCIT in 2008, after working for 15 years in the electronics design industry. My industry projects had involved designing microchips for cellular phones and Bluetooth, and hence wireless
communication became a topic of interest for me. The wireless market has undergone tremendous change and growth over the past several decades; consider that in the 1980’s, barely anyone owned cell phones! The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to be the next big thing in wireless; fitness trackers such as Fitbit are just the tip of the iceberg. I put together this book IoT and Low Power Wireless to capture where we are at this point in time with IoT research. One thing that amazed me is the ability to easily collaborate with authors around the world, all thanks to the internet!

You can find a print copy of Chris’s book at the Burnaby Campus Library  – TK 5105.8857 I68 2018 or find it online through the library’s subscription to EngNetBase
(Note: login is required off campus).