Name: 【TED】Fawn Qiu: Easy DIY projects for kid engineers (Easy DIY projects for kid engineers | Fawn Qiu)
Uploaded: 2016-12-04T14:50:28.000Z
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for middle school and high school students,

Adverbs of degree

often using materials that are pretty unexpected.

My inspiration comes from problems in my daily life.

one time I needed a costume to go to a comic convention,

but I didn't want to spend too much money,

I was devastated because my favorite mobile game,

to either never update my phone or never play Flappy Bird again.

I did the only thing that made sense to me.

that could never be taken off the app store.

So a few of my friends were also pretty addicted to the game,

And they told me that it was just as infuriating as the original game.

So I uploaded a demo of this project online,

It had over two million views in just a few days.

And what's more interesting are people's comments.

A lot of people wanted to make it their own,

So this kind of confirmed my idea that through a creative project,

With the money made from the viral video,

we were able to let students in our classroom

they learned a lot of new concepts in engineering and programming.

And they were all eager to learn so they could finish the game as well.

I had the idea of using creative engineering projects to teach students.

we asked our students to build a robot from a standard technology kit.

And I noticed that a lot of them seemed bored.

Then a few of them started taking pieces of paper

and they became more interested in the project.

So I started looking for more creative ways

What I found was that most technology kits available in school

They're all made of plastic parts that you can't customize.

On top of that, they're all very expensive,

So that's certainly not very affordable for most classroom budgets.

After all, we all played with those since we were kids,

and can be found anywhere around the house.

where students can create a light-up creature

They were all helping each other in classrooms,

and were laughing and discussing the project.

they were able to insert their own creativity into the project.

So because of the success of this project,

I continued to create more engineering projects

And I also started to take these workshops outside of school

And something really interesting happened.

I noticed a lot of people from very diverse backgrounds

there were a lot more women and minorities than I expected,

and that you wouldn't usually see at a traditional engineering workshop.

Now take a look at this employee report at a major technology company in 2016.

Women make up only 19 percent of the technology workforce.

And underrepresented minorities make up only four percent.

if you walked into a high school robotics club,

that contribute to the lack of diversity in the technology force.

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【TED】Fawn Qiu: Easy DIY projects for kid engineers (Easy DIY projects for kid engineers | Fawn Qiu)

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