Ever wanted to build a blanket fort at school with a group of awesome people while celebrating Black History Month while eating popcorn?! Well this is your chance! Grab your buddy, blanket and fave non-alcoholic beverage and come to the Mentorship Program’s BYOB[squared] Movie Night featuring the movie Hidden Figures.
Fort building starts at 6:00PM and the movies starts at 6:30PM. We’ll provide some popcorn but feel free to bring snacks/drinks for yourself (or to share).
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Get your tickets here.
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Hidden Figures is about black female mathematicians who worked at NASA during the Space Race. 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. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Gobels 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.