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Exponential girls | Ana Karen Ramírez | TEDxYouth@JesúsMaría


When i was a child
I wanted to be very famous very very very
famous
then that means that for me it was
I wanted to be successful
you when you were children wanted to be
singers footballers dancers or
Someone from around here wanted
do that I do see several hands
raised
well many of us wanted to be
that I wanted to do for example
singer wanted to be a model wanted to be
soap opera actress because it was
my error models to follow because to
what I saw on TV in magazines
were the people that I saw all the
time because for me to be famous was
equal to be successful and those are the
people that I saw even when I
I was in college
well I went to the university one of
my teachers told me today in a kareem
because you who are so good at
math you do not study something of
math and then I tell him I’ll
I say no because I’m going to study something
mathematics if mathematics are the
engineering all that of the
engineering
no no what happened this is not going to
take anywhere is not going to take me
fame new york money I want to be very
famous very very very famous
then I wish to me back then
they would have told me that there were people so
successful as you have ever heard of
facebook for example someone heard of
facebook I do not know the same you have heard
good this creator of facebook mark
Zuckerberg is one of the most of the
greatest millionaires in the world and
clear is successful and the famous or heard
of appple or heard of microsoft clear
steve jobs and bill gates people
largest and most famous in the world
are people who are dedicated to
mathematics to engineering and to
technology and they are people that in that
then I do not know what such a
once it did not exist back then it was the
better for me there were my models of
role to follow because I did not see them as
something that
to me they were real people
then what I studied in that
then with my eagerness to get to the cinema
because he wants to do some film studio
of animation and digital art and study
animation and digital art and and I give myself
mind that is not what I expected
that is not cinema
if there’s any film but more than that it
that I know is the algorithms the
virtual reality
the animation the programming the
code the applications
the design I do not know if I already said photography
digital and for me that was like something
amazing
It was a world that for me was something that
it changed me completely
then one day when I worked in
the university was working when
I was at the university that was
working
then I started working and one of my
heads told me today ana karen you have to
make a web page and I do not support from
design they put me to design all the
time at school because I’m going to do
a web page not then they put me
makes a web page and web design
everything there looks how pretty how pretty
I had the design no no but that’s not
It serves me what it is useful for me
design without without not serving because that’s not
it serves
you have to program it that was for
Mario of programming is not that then
some of the classes I had seen no
I had the good thing that had taken some
classes of algorithms and programming
basic because if not the best there would not be
known or would not have surrendered but good
I did not give up
and that’s how semi copying the
designs of internet web pages
was that I created my first page in
html5 and css3 and then after already and
I created my first web page
the second part was that the
first iphone
I do not think that I put there, there’s miren
an old iphone was wrong not when
it came out the first iphones they told me today
ana karen because you do not design a
interface for an iphone and then I
I said an interface for an iphone
well I will do then
with a stack of books and they told me
you have to read this and you’re going to do
expert in me this year there are design have
you ever heard this I
I demand there are design are the figures of
user experience design e
user interface in English
so for me that was like exquisite
UI law before this I
I became an iphones designer
User interface experience
user that is literally create
web pages and create web applications
then I still got to thinking
but if I want to be successful if I do
very nice web pages I make pages
your parents work but feel but
someone said that if you do not work on your
dreams will end up working for the
children of someone else and I felt that
I was doing that
then one day a good friend invites me
to hackathon technology events
star weekend looked word zone
very rare are events in which
during a weekend 48 hours 24
hours invites us to next to
designers and programmers and also
Business people think we do
possible a page to a site a
viable business on the internet
So I loved this, I said
I have to experience this but for
lifetime
this what people want to do forever
then I was so happy I
I felt the happiest person in the world
but there something I question myself because
it looked very father people but I want
that you see this image
this is a typical image of a
hackathon they see weird there there
women
so for me that was like something
because if I love it because if I
I’m so happy doing this in this guy
of events there is not a single woman
next and then I proposed I said
I have to make these events
have more women in technology and not
only the events because later I
I dedicated
working in other companies of
technology and I also realized and I
I realized that I was the only woman in the
cem on the computers in the companies of
technology
normally my teams always the
only woman if there were other women in
the companies where the people
I worked but were more like the
administration of the marketing that
nothing bad is good but
normally the technical teams are
surrounded by men and something that to me
I loved that I had not noticed and I
want this to happen next
then one day with them with a friend
they were called and I know her guess by
where on the internet by twitter do not believe
that in one of those quotes like that of you
internal does not go around there arises is the
I met on twitter because they tweeted us
friends of events today this girl walks
very active in these events and already
he is also very active in these
events because they do not come together because how
things are left as they thought
that and wanting will bring more women and
then we say because we do not put together a
blog we put together with other mothers
most inhabited point
in the end we ended up writing
and this blog for us was like the
place to let off steam and teach
other women that technology
amazing this blogger a hobby
even after this blog became
in an event
I said because there are no women of role to
follow and I think there were women of
role to follow
I mean women who is already in the
technology doing important things
to show other women that
Yes you can
then we take care to start
look for those women and we become
something that we call an epic in chapter
we took it with the blog but it was a
charter and then this guy in chapter
it’s also still our hobby and what
we started doing in the df the city of
Mexico and then my partner in that
then my friend
now my partner took it took him
to Monterrey because they from Monterrey and
then we started creating this event
that later became a
methodology that later became
in something like the tedx that
anyone can take it to different
different places and now we are already in
more than 30 cities and eight countries
so in these events & queens is no longer
more that is no longer my hobby is no longer
more just a blog if it’s still a
community if you keep doing events but
it’s a great organization today
who is supporting and to educate more
women in the technology sector were
we give classes we give courses we give them
workshops and if who in the end is for
talk a little bit more why
such is going to tell another thing is the
next if then last summer
I had the opportunity to attend a large
program was the summer of 2015 it’s called
singularity university is a program of
the nasa and google
founded by ray kurzweil and peter
diamandis those gentlemen who are there
I invite you also have the one
listen to you have a lot of appearance
and super good the next one and what is the
purpose of singularity university
positively impact the life of a
billion people a million and a
million is a billion people
translated into Spanish because it is a
billion is more in English than in
Spanish but let’s put them as a
trillion a trillion in 10 years
solving global problems with
exponential technologies
then we have to agree on the life of
the people with following technology
Then I got two
issues
for that I realized after that
that 97% of the industry sector
technological is led by men
and if next and if we want to solve
global problems next how
impact a million people
to see if something does not sound weird here
97 percent of the industry the sector
technological is led by men
and currently we want to impact a
million people but with technology
what’s happening here is something they
it sounds like weird like that well where
I go
well I tell you for the people
who believe they are the means I think of
technology they feel and believe that
only corresponds to 50 percent of
the population solve these problems
because the largest companies
currently out of the promise of the sector
technological and not only question
of gender is a matter of economics is
question of which the world goes for there
and we need this other side the
population that is trying to
also impact the problems that
we have all the others because
simply women see the way
from one we see things in a way
different does not mean that we are not
same but we have another way another
vision and we want to impact differently
way
so what problems do I speak ?
global problems that we see
the problem of the food of the
safety education poverty
of the water health of the energy of the
environment to see them I return to
ask again
they believe that those problems only
corresponds to 50 percent of the
population not then you have to create
technology because soon
that’s what the next one is about then
I say you have to teach this girl
not particularly to her but to her
program you have to teach them next
you have to teach them you have to educate the
next generation of girls in
technology to the next generation
of women in technologies and then
you would tell me why are we going to
teach him the next generation of
girls of women creators of
technology
if girls today is a super good
know my little cousin I already bring an iphone
we all have an iphone without my cousin
and also from age 6 they are already
digital natives but who believe that
we are consumers of technology not
creators and it’s not the same you have to create
technology instead of consuming people
because we do not teach you this line of
Robotic artificial intelligence network
the virtual defenders of biotechnology
of blogs in space because they do not
we teach that they can also
do it then I’m sure that the
children
today only 20% of the population that
If children in 20% of the
population
here they are the biggest
consumers but I’m also sure
they are 100 percent are
future of this country and the world
so if they are 20 percent right now
we have to help them so that in the
future be the great creators
then talking about piquin
I do not know if they remember that it is with
piquín we create a methodology is
methodology is called occupy and I want
that imagine a guilt or literal is
a party of the code is a place like that
filled with balloons filled with serpentine
full of confetti co sweet cakes and is
as a party
nothing else we have computers
computers where we learn to
schedule next
more or less like this it looks like a drink and
those are our comics
then what we see in the ari blame
are three specific topics
Prototyping prototype is we tell you if
you had the magic of technology
if you were as incredible as a
magician that you can create whatever it was with
technology
do not limit yourself to your thoughts that
you create with technology and then they
they draw with technology what they would do
what the second phases would create
we present role models to follow
role models
We believe that if it can not be what it does not
can is that if you’re not what you see if you do not
because you can not be what you do not
can be is that this can not be what
that you can not see then if you can not
be what you can not see and do not
we show that there are people in
technology that are doing things
incredible
they are not going to want to become something
very beautiful as a star
route or as a scientist or as a
doctor
then you have to show the children
that there is more than just
women who leave soap operas and the
third part is programming them
we teach girls that they can
create we teach them programming in
block is very basic we teach them
robotics we teach them arduino
it’s like a computer appointment for
teach children program
good and also adults and and
different things so that they learn
to program well then
Currently we have come to
this program for 5 thousand girls and before
that previously used this program when
the girls arrive with us they arrive at
the fault and he is happy and you tell him
what do you think the code is 80% of
these girls believe that the code is a
internet password and also believe
that being a hacker is a bad thing at the end of
these holidays no longer believes that the
code is something an internet password
or something super complicated next
then there is something that also before
the cup and the methodology that
we do that we practice them that are three
Steps
we tell you and what do you want to be
big
most girls do not say that
wants to be a veterinarian who wants to be
singer
now you want on youtube is father
it’s cool
Many tell me they want to be
astronaut I wish many more would tell me
that but at the end of a drink and you see
much real much more real
Follow the ones you want, the ones who want
remain singers that does not have
nothing bad but we show you that
You can also other things and tell us
I want to be a scientist
I want to be a scientist
literal experiments literal actions in
I want to be a video game designer
I want to be a great programmer myself
I want to be an engineer then like
at the end of this we open their minds
so that they think a little bit beyond
of what the status quo tell them
must come to do all not
it’s just about telling them to be
engineers because out there it does not go if not
it’s about thinking
I remove beyond feels then many
Sometimes we think girls for being
girls are not going to have enough
intellect to create amazing things
of the first activity that I told you
the prototype one of the girls told us
I want to create these are these not what
drew this his real a girl and he
drew I want to create a robot that flies
and I brought medicine to my friends when
are sick or this theft exists or
it’s a drone that already has different medicines
places there is food she did not know but
it already occurred to him that feels for example
be remember me night was a girl
that prevents you from wanting to invent a colla
that because his puppy was sick of
cancer between experiencing a necklace that
gave injections to your puppy and
automatically when it was no longer in
house using one that connected his his
collar with the puppy then to the
girl are occurring this many times
adults do not even want
this is real and they believe that really
they will be able to do the following
and well I do not forget that also
there are girls who want to create
robots that he will be his task although the
take home not me too I want
one of those that bring me 3 next and
well I want to tell you that the
potential of girls is and is not
let’s stop thinking that girls
they must be a certain way of acting
some way does not have that potential
these are the three girls who are
always playing piquin your client and
Well, I want to tell you finally that
these girls are the future and that they
are those who are going to change the life of the
different people on this planet
but picking up what he said to the
principle for me that success in
that then equal to fame for me
today is the success say I’m going to get to
the next generation
help inspire the next
generation of women of children
exponentials that are going to change and
impact the lives of one trillion
people
Thank you
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