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Joey Hudy: From High School Kid to Celebrity Maker to Intel Intern (Video)
Timothy Lord met Joey Hudy at an Intel Dev Forum. Joey is possibly the youngest intern Intel has ever hired, but he's made a big splash in the 'Maker world', so having him around is probably worth it for the PR value alone. Joey is obviously pretty bright -- he's been called one of the 10 smartest kids in the world -- but let's face it: he's had a lot of luck to help him along. Not many high school kids get invited to White House science fairs and demonstrate their air cannons to the president. (Alternate Video Link)
Well, since leaving college I've rarely used my Physics degree. He's just taking that to the logical conclusion...
Physicists get Hadrons!
Is this Slashdot or is this Hollywood Variety?
Funny thing about luck is, the harder I work the luckier I get.
Lets face it, using "Lets face it" over and over again makes you sound like you don't know how to use a thesaurus, I mean lets face it: its not that hard to swap it out with another idiom for variety sake.
Jesus did I miss out or what? Born way too early. What these people call "makers" I just call a regular childhood. I grew up at a time where you could pick up children's books that explained how to electrolyze water by taking apart carbon-zinc D cells for the electrodes and upside-down Evian bottles to catch the gases.
I also built scale model rockets out of construction paper mimicking the rockets I saw in books. I built basic electrical circuits from older books but got stumped by the French books calling for weird things like "tubes" and "selfs".
GG slashdot editors. 'Nuff said.
Buck Feta. You know what to do.
Intern = child labor laws do not apply as well as workers comp and host of other stuff.
Let's face it.
Made an "air cannon". Sweet shit. This is how the sytem is, the way it is. They pick someone relatively normal, go "you wanna be famous", then overexaggerate everything he does, just so they can tell the rest of us we are worthless.
Thats the "great man theory" in a nutshell.
... if he got suckered into working as an intern.
Before someone ends up jailed, check your state laws regarding this. An emancipated 16 year old can be treated like an adult in the workforce, but that is not because of their age.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Read the slides and check out some of the problems these kids are solving.
I used to tutor kids for the Physics Olympiad, and the final rounds were beyond me.
Top 10 smartest kids in the world? Probably not. Bloody smart? Certainly and lets celebrate that.
Who needs editors because, let's face it, these stories, let's face it, edit themselves...
to keep track of how many times his sentences started with "So,"
i guess "So," is the new "like,"
This just demonstrates the importance of "marketing yourself." Building things like air cannons, soda rockets, etc. is pretty common for intelligent high school geeks. I knew a handful of people that built cooler stuff with less easy to access tools. Having tools like the Arduino really have made the barrier to getting started, especially getting started by yourself.
No doubt this kid is smart, but what got him where he is was his ability to market his accomplishments to the right people. And you know what? All the power to him. Apple happened because Jobs was able to market something that Wozniak did, without that all of Woz's exploits would have just been tales told amongst his friends over a few beers.
Not many high school kids get invited to White House science fairs and demonstrate their air cannons to the president.
This White House event was run by people who either don't understand science or don't care about it.
Hypocrisy check:
Now teachers can get fired when their kids don't score high enough in high-stakes testing. That makes it a lot harder for them to spend time on maker-style projects and science fairs.