Spencer Turbitt is an alumnus Ontario Tech and talks about something he calls the “Student Effect”. Spencer shares three stories that illustrate how you can achieve anything and everything at a young age, by taking advantage of the support that is available around you.
TED talk
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The Power of Women in STEM: Jin Yan
Jin Yan is a postdoctoral scholar in FSU and a product development engineer in General Capacitor Int. LLC. She is also a recipient of the Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International, a fellowship that gives financial aid to women studying aerospace science. She knows the value of studying science and the importance of women being involved in the STEM field.
Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection
With rise of technology and innovative solutions, coding is a skill that is and will become the most important ever. Reshma Saujani discusses the current gender gap between the way we teach girls versus the way we teach boys and firmly believes that girls should be taught how to be brave, not how to be perfect. Check out her inspirational talk!
Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and has only one goal in mind – to reach one million women in computer science by 2020. Reshma dives into the core issue that we’re raising boys to brave but girls to be perfect. To close the gap, the creation of Girls Who Code aims to teach girls to take risks, become innovative and how to code.
Giada Gerboni: The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots
Ever heard of “soft robotics”? Neither had we! Check out biomedical engineer Giada Gerboni discussing how soft robotics play a critical role in surgery, medicine and our daily lives.
When we think of robots, we often think of devices that have been human-built for speed and precision but what about their flexibility? Giada Gerboni currently works at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. Giada researches the design of medical devices and robotics surgery and discusses how soft robotics have the potential to play a critical role in our lives
Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
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Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and artists who developed littleBits – a toy that allows you to program and build electronic circuits! Ayah makes the comparison that what Lego is to concrete blocks, littleBits is to transistors. littleBits are still going strong today, with new generations of bits, interfaces with other programs like Minecraft, and an app with a community of builders.
A delightful way to teach kids about computers
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What is this TED talk about?
In this TED Talk, Linda helps to educate everyone to see that there is more to computers than the personal computers their parents use every day, but that computer technology exists and can exist in even more everyday objects such as remote controls, cars, fridges, etc. In this talk, she encourages people to be optimistic and brave about technology and use it to create a better world.