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Megan Smith
American
Public Servant
Born:
1964
Government
Important
People
Science
Technology
You
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The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
Megan Smith
Technology
Science
Women
People
Opportunity
Men
Science And Technology
Nation
Everybody
More
More People
Economic
Economic Opportunity
Attract
Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.
Megan Smith
Passion
Kid
Attention
Unique
Each
Captures
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
Megan Smith
Great
Innovation
Out
Passions
Very
Personal
Human
Ingenuity
Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.
Megan Smith
History
You
Heart
Inclusive
Everything
Ways
Take
Open
Takes
Know
Make
Selves
Infinite
Your
Whole
I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.
Megan Smith
School
Important
Think
Ourselves
Kindergarten
Elementary
Elementary School
Preschool
We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
Megan Smith
Best
Sometimes
Diversity
More
Results
Uncomfortable
Know
Because
Familiar
Gets
Less
Things
We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.
Megan Smith
Great
Science
Computer Science
First
Become
Beginning
Programs
Those
Computer
Part
Mainstream
Like
Robotics
Making
Optional
Shop
Just
Curriculum
Etc
Including
Thing
Things
Need
Core
Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access.
Megan Smith
Everywhere
Talent
Access
What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.
Megan Smith
Mac
About
Computer
Know
Interface
Special
There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.
Megan Smith
Work
Technology
Women
Lost
Hundreds
Minorities
Some
Cases
Examples
Well
Well Known
Known
Doing
Been
Historic
Current
Stories
Many
Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.
Megan Smith
History
You
Class
Science
Else
Way
Someone
Inspiring
Facts
Know
Learn
Discovered
Taught
Which
Really
Need
Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.
Megan Smith
Experience
Important
Early Years
Those
Some
Having
Part
Countries
Instructions
Years
Very
List
Just
Curriculum
Teaching
Code
Early
Core
To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it's innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it's the talented people who work here who the bureaucracy's holding back, or the amazing American people.
Megan Smith
Work
Me
Change
People
World
Amazing
Holding
Back
Innovators
Locked
Out
Systems
Highest
Wrong
Wrong Reasons
Talent
Talented
Talented People
End
American
Bureaucracy
Where
Whether
American People
Much
Regulation
Who
Reasons
Here
Need
I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.
Megan Smith
Science
School
Mandatory
High
High School
Fair
Buffalo
Lucky
You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government.
Megan Smith
Future
Government
Needs
You
Facebook
Twitter
Run
Facebook And Twitter
Got
Making
Amazon
American
Who
Level
For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.
Megan Smith
You
Technology
Yourself
Back
Those
Photos
See
Know
Look
Always
Been
Reflecting
Who
Here
Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.
Megan Smith
Learning
People
Important
Active
Our
Having
Classrooms
Feel
Comfortable
Convenient
Where
Spaces
Really
Flipping
I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.
Megan Smith
Technology
World
Google
Worldwide
Able
Some
Web
More
Attend
Developer
Developers
Over
Like
Around
Been
Years
Conference
Conferences
Oracle
Microsoft
Many
Including
Apple
Largest
Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.
Megan Smith
Son
Daughter
Our
Like
Who
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