Interviews: Ask Adora Svitak About Education and Women In STEM and Politics

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 20, 2014 @05:48AM from the go-ahead-and-ask dept.

samzenpus writes Adora Svitak is a child prodigy, author and activist. She taught her first class on writing at a local elementary school when she was 7, the same year her book, Flying Fingers was published. In 2010, Adora spoke at a TED Conference. Her speech, "What Adults Can Learn from Kids", has been viewed over 3.7 million times and has been translated into over 40 different languages. She is an advocate for literacy, youth empowerment, and for the inclusion of more women and girls in STEM and politics. 17 this year, she served as a Youth Advisor to the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC. and is a freshman at UC Berkeley. Adora has agreed to take some time from her books and answer any questions you may have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.

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Question by phantomfive · 2014-11-20 06:00 · Score: 4

In your talk you said that kids deserve high expectations.

What help do you have to reach your high expectations? What should kids do who don't have the same help?

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"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Child prodigies by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-20 06:06 · Score: 4, Interesting

To what extent do you believe child prodigies are merely products of their environment?
Did TV make us do it? by mrex · 2014-11-20 07:07 · Score: 4

How much credence to you give to the theory recently put forward in a recent NPR Planet Money piece, ascribing the absence of women specifically in the computing industry to 1980s media representation of geeks and computer worker lifestyles?