Ayah Bdeir is an interactive artist/engineer and received her masters degree at MIT Media Lab. Ayah was born in Montreal, Canada in 1982 and lived in Lebanon, Canada and the Untied States. Presently she now lives in New York where she started up company LittleBits is located.
The product LittleBits are small circuit boards, which contain different components of sound, light and movement that lock together with magnets. LittleBits gives children more creative and doesn’t have to hold a degree in engineering. LittleBits are designed to be gender neutral according to Ayah,
“The circuit boards are white. We’re some of the first people that made circuit boards that are white because it’s less alienating. Usually they’re green — they just look a lot like electronics, and they have a history of being attached to that. So we wanted to start out with a new language. All the colors are very gender-neutral.” – CNN Money
LittleBits is a true beginning to children’s ideas for the future, and especially for girls.
The website used to locate Ayah Bdeir was found at Women Role Models Project. I choose Ayah Bdeir after watching the video TED. Ayah Bdeir idea is brilliant on not having to be an engineering to create designs using LitteBits. LittleBits makes children more creative and can lead girls into the right path.
