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Joey Hudy: From High School Kid to Celebrity Maker to Intel Intern (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the did-you-do-anything-this-slick-in-high-school? dept.

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)

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  1. Life optimisation by Space+cowboy · · Score: 1

    Well, since leaving college I've rarely used my Physics degree. He's just taking that to the logical conclusion...

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    Physicists get Hadrons!
  2. Luck by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Funny thing about luck is, the harder I work the luckier I get.

  3. Lets face it: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

  4. "Maker world"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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".

    1. Re:"Maker world"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Let's raise a glass to the humble "condensor"

    2. Re:"Maker world"? by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 1

      You were born too late. You missed out on sweet shit like the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory which included:

      Geiger-Müller counter
      Electroscope
      Spinthariscope
      Wilson cloud chamber
      Low-level radiation sources:
            Alpha particles (Pb-210 and Po-210)
            Beta particles (Ru-106)
            Gamma particles (possibly Zn-65)
      Four Uranium-bearing ore samples
      Nuclear spheres for making a molecular model of an alpha particle.
      Prospecting for Uranium â" a book
      Gilbert Atomic Energy Manual
      "Learn How Dagwood Split the Atom" comic book

  5. Cool story, bro. by buckfeta2014 · · Score: 1

    GG slashdot editors. 'Nuff said.

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    Buck Feta. You know what to do.
  6. Intern = child labor laws do not apply by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    Intern = child labor laws do not apply as well as workers comp and host of other stuff.

  7. What did this kid do again? by davydagger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:What did this kid do again? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      If he was indeed "one of the 10 smartest kids in the world", I wonder how he fared compared to, say, Terrence Tao.

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    2. Re:What did this kid do again? by s.petry · · Score: 2

      I agree with the premise, but not the conclusion. Obviously these are opinions which are perspective based, so I'd be happy to have more data on how you came to your conclusion.

      IMHO (not really that humble most of the time) I don't believe it's so that they can tell people they are worthless as much as they can claim that certain people and projects are much better than reality dictates. We can claim all of these Government programs really work if we hype small things like this, and of course ignore the fact that people are accomplishing exactly what you could have seen in a school science fair back when I was a kid. Not only that, but you can become a celebrity by doing so.

      No matter which of us is closer to the truth in our opinionated conclusion, the fact remains that this is propaganda and not "News for Nerds". The unknown is what the purpose of the propaganda is, which often stays hidden for a very long time.

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      -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.

  8. Obviously not that smart... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    ... if he got suckered into working as an intern.

  9. BS! by s.petry · · Score: 1

    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.

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    -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.

  10. Most kids who build air cannons just get arrested by nbauman · · Score: 1

    Not many high school kids get invited to White House science fairs and demonstrate their air cannons to the president.

  11. What did this kid do again? by nbauman · · Score: 1

    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.