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 ### Resources
 
-If you're unfamiliar with Git, it is an *extremely useful* tool, and one that we use daily. You'll need to familiarie yourself with the basics in order to work with, and contribute to, CoLab engineering projects.
+If you're unfamiliar with Git, it is an *extremely useful* tool, and one that we use daily. You'll need to familiarize yourself with the basics in order to work with, and contribute to, CoLab engineering projects.
 
 - Overall Introductions:
   * [Great overall explanation](https://betterexplained.com/articles/aha-moments-when-learning-git/)