Pease join SWE-BWS for our Winter Paint Party on Saturday, December 13th! Release your inner creativity and enjoy some winter-themed mocktails while painting a personal work of art to take home. 

This event will be held at the Marilyn J. Praisner Library in Burtonsville, MD. All supplies will be provided – just bring your creativity! A curated menu of festive mocktails and a light variety of pastries will also be available.

Please RSVP by 12/11 to ensure we have enough materials!

Join SWE-BWS for our next book club meeting via Zoom. This month we selected “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Zoom link will be shared ~30 minutes prior to the call. Note that it’s perfectly okay to join if you haven’t finished the book!
 

“Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.” – Synopsis by goodreads.com

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