One Minute with George Kong, a 2024 PowerUp Winner!
On the evening of November 13th, the Business and Career Center announced the 2024 PowerUP Winners at our Annual Awards Ceremony. Check out the livestream on Youtube if you missed it or want to experience it again.Since 2003, the Business and Career Center has nurtured 10,900 individuals with over 1,800 business plans and awarded more than $650,000 in cash and in-kind gifts to Brooklyn entrepreneurs. Our success stories include more than 100 companies with passion for food and drink, health and wellness, arts and crafts, media and fashion, education, social justice, and cultural…
Game On! It's International Games Week at Your Library
Every year the American Library Association Games & Gaming Round Table runs International Games Week, an opportunity to celebrate gaming in libraries. Taking place this year from November 7th-13th, libraries can register gaming events they hold during the week to highlight just how much fun and educational gaming takes place inside our spaces. And we do a lot of gaming: from traditional games like chess and bingo to the latest video games, not a week goes by in which BPL staff are not running a gaming session of some sort. Next week we are running more than 20…