GOLDIE BLOCKS VIDEO
I found this video extremely interesting. This woman is an engineer and was appalled by how few women are in the engineering field (89% are male) so she decided to spend her entire life savings on creating a toy that would appeal to little girls and involve building simple machines. The toy comes with a building set and a book starring a an inventor named Goldie. The girl reads stories and at the end she has to help Goldie solve a problem.
I think this is amazing because as a child I was never given building toys and I think it has a lot to do with my lack of spatial reasoning and disinterest in math and science. If we get more girls interested in building and solving problems we will have a wider array of people to think through the massive issues we face. The more diverse our engineering community is, the more problems we can effectively solve.
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