AnnMarie Thomas gave a short talk at TED this year on Why Making Matters. She blogged the following, based on the speech she gave:
I truly believe that the one of the best ways to have an impact on the world is to give as many kids and young adults as possible the tools they need to change the world. In a quest to do this, I’ve read a lot of biographies of engineers and inventors whom I respected and began to see an obvious trend.
• Paul MacCready, one of my heroes, designer of human powered aircraft and champion for more sustainable modes of transformation, grew up building model airplanes on his family’s ping pong table to the extent that at the age of 14 he set the world record for flight duration of an autogyro.
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