young people and creative tech
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Young people and creative techCHARLOTTA LIUKAS | JANUARY 22, 2015
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“A 12-year-old can gather information faster, process it more efficiently, reference more
diverse professionals, and get volunteer guidance from better sources than you can at work”
- Thomas Friedman, The DIY Economy, New York Times, December 2009.
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The biggest tragedy of the Internet was the demise of MySpace.
Designers forget creativity looks like chaos.
- Zach Klein, Founder of DIY.org
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Digitalself-expression
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mehackit wants every kid and teenager to get creative, confident and curious about technology.
Our activities - school courses, workshops and community - all contribute towards discovering
the joys of creative technology.
Intro tocreative tech
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Learning, doing, and teaching are inseparable. Discovery environments like maker classes, innovation pro-
grams, and hacker spaces are not framed as learning.
Process of discovery
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Tech is an integral part of the world around us. Not everyone has to fall madly in love with technology, but
all should be offered the opportunity to do so!
Science, tech, engineering, arts
and math
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@mehackit
Understandthe culture behind tech
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Female Founder Stories | http://www.femalefounderstories.com/A collection of interviews with Y Combinator’s female alumni
Geek Gurl Diaries | http://www.geekgurldiaries.co.uk/ Carrie Anne’s video logs on making and using technology
Becky Stern | http://sternlab.org/ Director of Wearable Electronics at Adafruit and an art tech goddess.
Women in techinspiration
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Rails Girls | railsgirls.com Espoo, 6 & 7 February
Django Dames | djangodames.fi Turku, 7 February
Future Female | futurefemale.com
Meet new friends
PyLadies meetup.com/Helsinki-PyLadies/
StartupDigest Helsinki weekly newsletter startupdigest.com/digests/helsinki
Aaltoes Newsletter | aaltoes.com
