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March 5th, 2013
Seven TED 2013 videos you don’t want to miss
Conference focuses on young innovators, education issues
3. For A World Without Cancer: Jack Andraka. Andraka, a 16-year-old Maryland high school student, has invented an inexpensive and sensitive dipstick-like sensor for the rapid and early detection of pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers. He recently won the Gordon E. Moore top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, as well as the Google Thinking Big Award for the project, addressing a seemingly impossible problem and finding an elegant solution with broad impact. Read more here.
2. The Boy Who Played With Fusion: Taylor Wilson. Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of those: When he was 14, he built a working fusion reactor in his parents’ garage. Now he wants to save our seaports from nuclear terror. Read more here.
1. Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud. Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other—using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE), and learn more at tedprize.org.
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atoney68
March 10, 2013 at 10:32 pm
After watching Jack Andraka’s talk, I am awed by his intelligence, persistence and at what he was able to accomplish. I know there are more young people out there with a lot to give society and we should find ways to give them the tools to do so. However, I also saw a young man who has maturing to do. Here is a someone who never said thank you for the applause, who never talked about how he couldn’t have accomplished any of it without the scientists who had done work before him–let alone the research scientist who allowed him time and lab space. He spoke with derision about his biology teacher and her (implied) ridiculous notion of respecting her class. Clearly, Jack is brilliant. Just as clear is his lack of understanding of and respect for others. Isn’t there a place for those things along side his medical breakthrough in our culture?