Today kicks off the 2026 City Nature Challenge, when cities around the world collaborate to share observations of nature. This annual four-day global bioblitz asks participants to find, photograph, and upload examples of organisms growing and living in the wild–that is, not put there and cared for by humans.
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LIBRARYBUZZ, the OpenLab site that delivers news from City Tech’s library, shares this important news: this Saturday, March 28th, is Wikipedia Day! (The event was originally scheduled for January 25th, but was snowed out.)
Wikipedia Day is an annual celebration of Wikipedia’s birthday.
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Since 2012 Open Education Global (OE Global) has coordinated Open Education Week (OE Week) as a celebration and opportunity for those working in Open Education to actively share their achievements and learn about what others are achieving worldwide. The whole goal is to make all of this available as a community built calendar of events, all locally organized by institutions and organizations worldwide.
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City Tech welcomes new students and faculty and staff members every year–so welcome to everyone new, and welcome back to everyone returning!
The OpenLab team is excited to work with you this semester as you do great things on the OpenLab–and to help you learn more about using the OpenLab and working in an open community.
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This Tuesday, 12/9/25, 1:00-2:00pm, our OpenLab team is hosting an open session via Zoom for you to share something you did on, with, or about the OpenLab this semester.
Drop in at any point to show and tell, learn a few things, or just join us to celebrate our community’s accomplishments.
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The Spotlight is on the The tenth annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, which will take place at City Tech on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 from 9:00am to 5:00pm, and features work from science fiction writers, scholars, and students..
Symposium organizers invite everyone to the City Tech Academic Building at 285 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn, New York in Room A-105 to join for the day-long event, or stop by as schedules permit, whether for a panel or for the keynote address, “Is Contemporary Science Fiction Strange Enough?”
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The OpenLab at City Tech has won an Open Education Award for Excellence – recognizing contributions to the Open Education community that exemplify excellence in the field. And since the award, 2025 Open Assets Award, includes that the OpenLab is “Recognized as an Open Community,” that means that you, the OpenLab community, have won this award, too!
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The OpenLab team provides many different modes of support to help members learn how to do what they want to do on the OpenLab. Co-working sessions are a little different as they’re more about fostering a community of support.
These hour-long sessions are for quiet working time alongside others, with the option to move to a breakout room for conversation or questions.
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Welcome to the Fall 2025 semester! City Tech welcomes new students and faculty and staff members every year–so welcome to everyone new, and welcome back to everyone returning!
The OpenLab team is excited to work with you this semester as you do great things on the OpenLab–and to help you learn more about using the OpenLab and working in an open community.
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Emerging Scholars from COMD Futures, Emerging Media Technologies, and Architecture collaborated with Membit Inc. over the last few semesters to research, design, and develop City Tech’s Fun Facts Finder, an augmented reality campus tour.
This virtual tour uses the augmented reality application Membit to help new students locate important locations and services on campus, meet community members, and share fun facts about City Tech.
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