Computers and Ada Lovelace

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, Navy Birthday, Yorkshire Pudding Day, and National M&M Day.

ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy.
• 1792 - The cornerstone of the White House is laid.
• 1884 - The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
• 1903 - The Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox) win the first World Series.
• 1908 - Suffragist and journalist Margaret Travers Symons sneaks into the UK parliament and becomes the first woman to speak there.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1754 - Revolutionary War figure known as Molly Pitcher
• 1909 - Editorial cartoonist Herblock
• 1925 - UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher
• 1925 - Comedian Lenny Bruce
• 1941 - Musician Paul Simon
• 1961 - Basketball coach Doc Rivers
• 1969 - Skater Nancy Kerrigan
• 1971 - Actor Sacha Baron Cohen
• 1977 - Basketball player Paul Pierce
• 1989 - U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

SONGS OF THE DAY 
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al - LISTEN
Paul Simon - Sesame Street - Me and Julio Down by the School Yard - LISTEN

THEME:  Computers

• Grades PreK-1 - Sesame Street - Where Are the Computers in Your Neighborhood? - VIEW
• Grades PreK-3 - PBS LearningMedia - Ready Jet Go!- Programming Computers - VIEW
• Grades 2-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Computer Programmer - VIEW and DO
• Grades 2-10 - PBS LearningMedia - MIT Science Out Loud - How to Make a Video Game - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-6 - PBS LearningMedia - Science Trek - Computers Collection - VIEW
• Grades 6-8 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA Wonders -Teaching Machines to See - Can We Build a Brain? - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - NOVA scienceNOW - Luis von Ahn: Computer Scientist - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Physics Girl -How Does Your Phone Send Emojis? - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Crash Course - Computer Science Collection (40 videos) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -False Dawn: The Babbage Engine - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME:  Ada Lovelace

• Grades 4-12 - BBC  - Newsround - Who Was Ada Lovelace? -READ
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Visionaries: Ada Lovelace - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - Computer History Museum - Ada Lovelace - READ 
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia -  Victoria, Season 2 - A Woman Mathematician - VIEW and DO

Watch 

• 9-12 pm NH WORLD - PBS NewsHour Special Coverage: The Barrett Confirmation Hearings
• 12-1 pm NH WORLD - Supernature - Wild Flyers - Defying Gravity
• 1-2 pm NH WORLD - H20: The Molecule That Made Us - Pulse
• 2-2:30 pm NH WORLD - Poetry In America - To Prisoners - Gwendolyn Brooks
• 2:30-5 pm NH WORLD - The War - Pride of Our Nation (June 1944 - August 1944)
• 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD - America ReFramed - American Dreams Deferred
• 9-11 pm NHPBS - Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339