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SWE Nationals was in this city
Where is New Orleans, LA
The slope of a tangent line is given by this fundamental concept in calculus.
What is the derivative?
Before her space mission, NASA famously offered this many tampons for a 7-day trip, proving men absolutely did not understand periods.
What is 100?
This store sponsors the most famous Thanksgiving parade in the world.
What is Macy’s?
How many years in a row has URI been named the #1 public university in New England by the Wall Street Journal
2 years
what is 11?
The derivative of x2 is this:
What is 2x?
This NASA mathematician, featured in Hidden Figures, calculated flight paths for the first American in space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving at this location.
What is Plymouth?
The College of engineerng has this many departments
What is 5?
SWE just celebrated this many years as an organization
What is 75 years?
The derivative of sinx is this trigonometric function.
What is cosx?
This term for writing computer instructions was first popularized by a woman (Margaret Hamilton) who worked on the Apollo missions.
What is “software engineering”?
This NFL team has hosted Thanksgiving games since 1966, second only to the Lions.
Who are the Dallas Cowboys?
The University of Rhode Island was founded in this year:
when was 1892?
In what year was SWE's first national conference
When was 1951?
This technique finds the height of a curve under a graph by summing many rectangles.
What is a Riemann sum?
She was the first American woman in space, flying aboard the Challenger in 1983.
Who is Sally Ride?
This U.S. president was the first to “pardon” a turkey as a light-hearted Thanksgiving tradition.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This building on campus rings the bell every hour:
What is Davis Hall
This is the number of countries National SWE membership spans
over 85 countries
This term describes a function that can be drawn without lifting your pencil, a key requirement for many limit problems.
What is a continuous function?
Emily Warren Roebling oversaw the completion of this major U.S. bridge after her husband fell ill, marking a milestone in civil engineering.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
This Thanksgiving pie is made with a nut that’s the only major tree nut native to North America.
What is pecan pie?
Rhody the ram made his first public appearance in this year
When was 1929