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Ara the star engineer  Cover Image Book Book

Ara the star engineer / by Komal Singh and others thinkers and tinkerers at Google ; illustrations by Ipek Konak.

Singh, Komal, 1988- (Author). Konak, Ipek. (Added Author).

Summary:

Ara loves numbers--BIG numbers. She wants to program her droid DeeDee to count all the stars, but she's not sure how. In this upbeat adventure, Ara visits Innovation Plex to enlist the help of four tech trailblazers--inspiring real-life engineers of Google. With her new friends, Ara discovers an algorithm for success that can solve BIG problems and be lots of fun: Courage, creativity, code and collaboration.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1989025056
  • ISBN: 9781989025055
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations
  • Publisher: [Vancouver] : Page Two Books, [2018]

Content descriptions

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 22.95
Subject: Engineering > Juvenile fiction.
Women engineers > Juvenile fiction.
Problem solving > Juvenile fiction.
Girls > Juvenile fiction.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch STO JP Singh 31681020093720 PICTURE Checked out 06/14/2025

Komal Singh is a techie by day and a storyteller mom by night - one who loves coding and cupcakes, data crunching and day dreaming, pottery making and program planning. She was inspired to write this book when a hypothesis put forth by her 4-year old daughter stunned her: “Engineers are Boys”. Singh is passionate about using technology as an enabler and an equalizer for all. She takes part in kids’ coding clubs, sits on hackathon judge panels, and volunteers with nonprofits on technology development. Komal grew up in India and studied Computer Science at Delhi University and later moved to Canada to complete her Masters’ degree in C.S from Simon Fraser University. She has worked as a software engineer with tech consulting firms and is currently an Engineering Program Manager at Google. Komal lives in Waterloo, Canada, with her husband and two little kids.


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