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"“Miss, miss, can I play with your robot?”
The question comes from a young local school girl standing in front of our
stall at Barunga Festival, 80 kilometres southeast of Katherine in the Northern
Territory. She points at our broken robot. We are hot, tired and getting ready
to pack up, and explain to her that it is no longer working.
She insists she would like to play with it anyway. So we concede. In five
minutes, she has fixed it and returns a fully functional robot.
Not for the first time, we wonder about the new discoveries and innovations
humanity is missing out on because remote and rural children are not given
genuine opportunities to engage and follow careers in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM).
For the past four years, we have been on the road with STEM outreach in remote
communities. We have recently returned home from this year’s trip. Our work
shows these children don’t have to miss out."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
