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Peer Tutor Tuesdays with Aleksey Makin

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Name:        Aleksey Makin
Program:   Electrical and Computer Engineering

What attracted you to becoming a Peer Tutor?
I’ve wanted to become a peer tutor because it gives me the opportunity to help other students, review content and work while studying.

How has working as a Tutor helped you?
Tutoring helped me when I was unable to understand a subject myself and now I can help others.

If you could give one piece of advice to a BCIT student what would it be?
If you want to be successful you need to understand, not just memorize.

What would your dream job be when you leave BCIT?
Embedded systems design or in power distribution.

If you had a free day, how would you spend it?
Go hiking.

Reference Desk and AskAway Virtual Reference Hours

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Effective September 16th to November 29th the hours will be:

Reference Desk:

Monday to Thursday:    12:00 to 4:00
Fridays:                         12:00 to 2:00

AskAway Virtual Reference:

Monday to Thursday:     9:00am – 9:00pm
Friday:                            9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday:                       11:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday:                         10:00am – 9:00pm

Science Literacy Week in the Library, Sept. 16th – 20th, 2019

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Join us at the BCIT Burnaby Campus Library between Sept. 16th – 20th as we celebrate Science Literacy Week.

Science Literacy Week highlights Canada’s outstanding scientists and science communicators from coast-to-coast. The goals are to showcase the excellence and diversity of Canadian science and to show how exciting science is.

Each day we’ll be featuring some of the new technology that is available in the Library. Stop by between noon – 2pm daily for Tech a Day and try out:

  • Oculus Go/Rift
  • Hololens
  • Cozmo Robots
  • Sphero Bolt
  • Arduino Kits
  • Raspberry Pi

If you had fun trying to solve the puzzle to our last Escape Room, be sure to sign up for the all new Escape Room II experience!

All events are free and everyone is welcome!

MONDAY, SEPT. 16th

Noon—2:00pm         Tech a Day (MediaWorks, main floor of the Library)

 

TUESDAY, SEPT. 17th

11:30am—12:15pm    Escape Room II (room 303)

Noon—2:00pm          Tech a Day (MediaWorks, main floor of the Library)

12:30pm—1:15pm     Escape Room II (room 303)

For Escape Room II register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/escape-room-ii-tickets-69761250779

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18th

Noon—2:00pm         Tech a Day (MediaWorks main floor of the Library)

2:30pm—3:30pm     “Where Does Your Recycling Go” presented by Maria Bushmin (Summit Centre, main floor of the Library)

Want to know where your recycling goes? BCIT Applied Research is conducting research to learn more about the final destination of items after we have placed them in the blue bin.

Register for Where Does Your Recycling Go? here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/where-does-your-recycling-go-tickets-68499571061

3:30pm—4:30pm     BCIT’s Energy Oasis Tour presented by Joey Kan (meet In lobby by the Service Desk)

BCIT’s Energy OASIS (Open Access to Sustainable Intermittent Sources) project demonstrates solutions that could be employed to help reduce the impact of fast-charging on the electric grid. The Energy OASIS project integrates photovoltaic panels and Li-Ion energy storage for a Level-3 fast charge electric vehicle charge station within BCIT’s Smart Microgrid system.

Register for BCIT’s Energy Oasis Tour here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bcits-energy-oasis-tour-tickets-68811851099

 

THURSDAY, SEPT. 19th

11:30am—12:15pm   Escape Room II (room 303)

Noon—2:00pm         Tech a Day (MediaWorks, main floor of the Library)

Noon—1:00pm         Food for Thought Series : Motivating Young Women and Girls to Enroll and Persist in Computer Science and Technology Education by Mirela Gutica (Summit Centre, main floor of the Library, light lunch provided)

Dr. Mirela Gutica, Program Head Bachelor of Technology Curriculum Leadership, Option Head Diploma Technical Programming, School of Computing and Academic Studies, British Columbia Institute of Technology

Mirela teaches and conducts applied research at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in the School of Computing and Academic Studies. Her background is in computer engineering and technology education. Mirela teaches digital logic design, discrete mathematics, programming and operating systems, and is actively involved in the BCIT community. Her research interests include advanced learning technologies, computer science education and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education. She was awarded the BCIT VP Research Seed Fund (2016-2019) to conduct the project entitled “Building Advanced Learning Technologies for Improving Girls’ and Women’s Participation in STEM.”

12:30pm—1:15pm    Escape Room II (room 303)

For Escape Room II register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/escape-room-ii-tickets-69761250779

 

FRIDAY, SEPT. 20th

Noon—2:00pm       Tech a Day (MediaWorks, main floor of the Library)

 

New mural on campus – Journey into the BCIT Archives!

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A great bit thanks to Campus Development and my friends in Marketing and Communications who made this happen and look fabulous! Next time you are in SE2 take a look just outside Townsquares C & D.

Photograph of mural of BCIT Archival photographs

The mural installed in SE2. Photograph by C. McLellan

All of the photographs used in the mural can be found in the BCIT Archives database. If you visit the mural and look on the far right the item numbers are listed which makes searching easy. There are over 6000 photographs digitized and available in the BCIT Archives database – this is about 2% of the estimated 300,000 photographs in our holdings.

Photograph of a blank wall.

The wall looking quite dull. Photograph by C. McLellan.

Thanks to everyone who contacted me after the 50th Anniversary mural came down! I hope you enjoy the new one.