Engineering Solutions for Social Good
Just when you despair of America's technology prowess, you find out what the next generation of youth are capable of inventing.
Just as exciting is the fact that this award program was supported by our lead sponsor, Fiverr.
The Dream it. Code it. Win it. program in May, introduced student's ideas that could have an impact on the marketplace today.
Aside from a 3D printed prosthetic hand, visual programming solutions and so on, we loved the stick-on circuit board product. Instead of a "bread board", you can actually build circuits with sensors and so on just by sticking them on a sheet of paper and then illustrating the system flow. This is an amazing bridge between DIY programming, hardware building, prototyping, hobbyist projects and education.
Just as illuminating are the young multicultural teams creating these ideas.
It is not hard to see that tech creativity is alive and well. More than that is the realization that motivated kids with an idea are a fantastic educational paradigm that will fundamentally change how kids are taught: why bore them with the rules of calculus when you can set them a challenge that makes them want to learn and use it?
Hats off to Fiverr, MIT Enterprise Forum, The Internet Society and Cooper Union.
Just when you despair of America's technology prowess, you find out what the next generation of youth are capable of inventing.
Just as exciting is the fact that this award program was supported by our lead sponsor, Fiverr.The Dream it. Code it. Win it. program in May, introduced student's ideas that could have an impact on the marketplace today.
Aside from a 3D printed prosthetic hand, visual programming solutions and so on, we loved the stick-on circuit board product. Instead of a "bread board", you can actually build circuits with sensors and so on just by sticking them on a sheet of paper and then illustrating the system flow. This is an amazing bridge between DIY programming, hardware building, prototyping, hobbyist projects and education.
Just as illuminating are the young multicultural teams creating these ideas.
It is not hard to see that tech creativity is alive and well. More than that is the realization that motivated kids with an idea are a fantastic educational paradigm that will fundamentally change how kids are taught: why bore them with the rules of calculus when you can set them a challenge that makes them want to learn and use it?
Hats off to Fiverr, MIT Enterprise Forum, The Internet Society and Cooper Union.
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