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" Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son. "
Megan Smith
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" Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions. "
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" I like to work at the beginning of projects. Once they get stable, I'll hand them off. "
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Hand
Beginning
Like
" I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do. "
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Working
Person
Government
" 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. "
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Great
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Need
" For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back. "
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Know
You
Technology
" 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. "
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Facts
You
Science
" I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical. "
Megan Smith
Fair
Learning
Money
" The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising. "
Megan Smith
Power
Best
Technology
" People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down. "
Megan Smith
People
Down
Ideas
" 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
People
Amazing
Change
" There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea. "
Megan Smith
Ship
Innovation
Mentor
" I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo. "
Megan Smith
School
Lucky
High School
" Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion. "
Megan Smith
Unique
Passion
Kid
" I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia. "
Megan Smith
Think
World
Technology
" Talent is everywhere. Not all talent has access. "
Megan Smith
Access
Talent
Everywhere
" 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
World
Apple
Google
" You've got Americans who are making Amazon and Facebook and Twitter. That level of American needs to run future government. "
Megan Smith
American
Future
Government
" It's an incredibly important thing to make sure we preserve net neutrality. "
Megan Smith
Important
Sure
Neutrality
" Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry. "
Megan Smith
Grace
Growing
Women
" What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface. "
Megan Smith
About
Special
Mac
" There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more. "
Megan Smith
Million
World
Women
" It's so interesting that when somebody's pregnant, we are obsessed with knowing the gender of the child so we can figure out what we need to buy that child, what the present would be. Like we're pre-programming the kid before they were born. "
Megan Smith
Kid
Present
Interesting
" Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable. "
Megan Smith
Feel
Important
Learning
" It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down. "
Megan Smith
Lot
Down
Problems
" 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
Curriculum
Important
" If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome? "
Megan Smith
Digital
Awesome
Country
" Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally. "
Megan Smith
Our
Really
Expect
" In the early IBM team, that was a racially diverse team, a gender-diverse team. "
Megan Smith
IBM
Early
Diverse
" The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking. "
Megan Smith
Experience
Writing
Science
" We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys. "
Megan Smith
Personal
Decided
Came