Easy DIY projects for kid engineers | Fawn Qiu
Easy DIY projects for kid engineers | Fawn Qiu
TED Resident Fawn Qiu designs fun, low-cost projects that use familiar materials like paper and fabric to introduce engineering to kids. In this quick, clever talk from the creator of the “Flappy Bird in a Box Hack,” Qui shares how nontraditional workshops like hers can change the perception of technology and inspire students to participate in creating it.
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Easy DIY projects for kid engineers | Fawn Qiu
Easy DIY projects for kid engineers | Fawn Qiu
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im not a kid okay? Im already 11…
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she is so cute
Why are there dislikes on this or any of The TED video's
haha, that is really awesome!
glad the election is over, TED is going back to interesting stuff
I believe we should not limit the use of creativity in tuition to technology only. Schools should let kids be creative at all subjects. Schools do a perfect job of teaching children how to follow orders step by step but fail miserably at teaching them how to be creative. This is a shame because in the age of machine automation creativity is a skill that is becoming more and more important.
OR – if you just had a little of computer science sense, you could have downloaded an archived flappybird apk file from the net. Or whatever jailbreaked ios use as a installation file… 😒 still, thumbs up! 🙂
The first cool thing about Bieber I heard of.
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Oh Fawn Qiu you are brilliant. Thank you for this; what value you bring to us all.
Fawn Qiu too
We need more ted talks like this.. A woman encouraging girls to be engineers rather than telling them men are the patriarchy
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Fawn Qiu, you are amazing thank you for the contribution!!!
Having a technical background, liked most of this vid up until 4:45ish then BOOM Affirmative Action out of nowhere. Whyyy..? Electrons, silicon and copper don't care about what genes you have, even the genes that dictate your skin color :/
This was really good! I would've loved having these kind of workshops in middle school or high school! I agree that a possible solution to the STEM diversity problem is actually getting people interested from an early age. Again, great video!
Cooper tape?
Ethnicity diagram is messed up, nothing on the diagram is 57%, Black Hispanic and Two or more races all point to a same oversized slice.
Talking about getting kids involved in engineering and observing how changing the format of classical engineering to encourage artistic creativity resulted in addressing the gender and ethnic in balance existing in the field is not a feminist imposition. This is nothing like Anita Sarkeesian, Gail Dines or Rebecca Watson. When I studied software engineering the women where offered a mentor program and accessibility counselling as well as receiving a folder with useful information like local childcare facilities and female faculty in hour contact information in addition to the normal pack issued to everybody else, This is giving more help to females and debatably unfair to men in an attempt correct for a historic imbalance. Accidentally discovering using sock puppets and origami to encourage all people into engineering and finding it brings in more women and minorities is no agenda.
This is great. Made my day. Let's make young people appreciate natural science and engineering more.
really interesting and good ideas
great idea. it has the potential of increasing of love towards technology.
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One of my favorites. Well played TED. You guys have been on thin ice lately.
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To all people that rage about this vid being Feminazi movement, and to all people that say that first group is stupid:
The balancing of the genders here IS NOT DONE BY SOME FUCKING EXTRA GRANTS FOR GRILLZ OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Thats the first part. 2nd part – IT IS NOT THE MAIN FOCUS OF HER JOB – you can clearly see that she spoke 90% of the time about other stuff rather than gender wars, and this is a happy little byproduct that shows that her work WIDENS the scope of people that attend her lessions, not PULLS MORE GRILLS SO IT WILL BE 50-50. It is not a workplace enviroment when they hire women instead of men cause gender distribution. This is a case where '90% of white males go there ANYWAY, and only 5% of black girls do, but now even black grils enjoy these courses. It is not one or the other (5 job posts situation) but as-many-as-possible (making the product better so more people like it, not gifting it to the groups that dont buy your product to make statistics look 'more equal').
Very nice Ted Talk. I like this idea of making engineering very approachable to young people and those without an engineering background. It looks like you are already having success bring this to the world. Thank you and God bless you in your future endeavors
Give this woman a cookie!
very cool
innovative:(of a person) introducing new ideas; original and creative in thinking.
they are small children aswell
Really cool and sweet talk. Give this girl the money! 🙂
"Low floor, high ceiling" should be the goal in all areas of education. Tragically, it's far too rare in society.
love it! 🙂 …many girls (and grandmothers like me!) love making and playing around with things like this. What a brilliant way to encourage children's natural creative abilities, having great fun while building more useful brain cells 🙂
this is such an intersting presentation and everyone here talks about the gender section…
Please tell me what school this is I'm almost out of elementary
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