Taking the Time to Tinker

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Taking the Time to Tinker encourages encouraging children to pursue intellectual interests and investigate what arouses their curiosity through tinkering. It discusses how tinkers throughout history like the Wright brothers, Edison, Tesla, and Curie changed life through starting simple, iterating, and having their first flights or discoveries. It introduces Elaine Levin who created Podna Rover to help those with mobility issues like her have confidence through baby steps and small prototypes.

Technology Health & Medicine

Taking the Time to Tinker
Poornima Vijayashanker
Founder of Femgineer
@poornima
TEDxNavesink
1

Founding Engineer
2006 - 2009
Founder
2010 - Present
Founder
2007 - Present
11

We were lucky enough to grow
up in an environment where
there was always much
encouragement to children to
pursue intellectual interests; to
investigate whatever aroused
curiosity.
“
” - Orville Wright
12

Tinkers throughout time have changed life!
Edison TeslaCurie
16

Meet Elaine Levin.
63.
Multiple Sclerosis.
23

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Taking the Time to Tinker

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