{"id":227690,"date":"2016-07-04T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227690"},"modified":"2016-07-04T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T06:00:05","slug":"10-year-old-roboticist-receives-paris-innovation-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=227690","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old roboticist receives Paris Innovation Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-year-old roboticist Eva is the youngest person to receive Five by Five&#8217;s Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Kat Borlongan, a founding partner at Five by Five, shared a summary of Eva&#8217;s application on\u00a0Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe streets of Paris are sad. I want to build a robot that will make them happy again. I\u2019ve already starting learning how to code on Thymio robots, but I have trouble making it work. I want to join the program so the mentors can help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eva, who lives in France just outside of Paris, has a blog where she shares some of her coding and 3D printing work, including this YouTube video of her robot drawing with chalk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popout\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"managed-yt-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjXi93Wiq2w?enablejsapi=1&amp;\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the Fellowship&#8217;s website, the program is &#8220;a two-week immersive program focused on empowering our next generation of city problem-solvers: data scientists, DIY urban designers and open street mappers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the fellowship, \u201cEva will be programming a robot to \u2018make the streets of Paris happy again.\u2019 She aims to program several robots to spontaneously draw stars, hopscotch floor prints, intricate mazes and other shapes and figures to delight pedestrians,\u201d Borlongan wrote to<em>Mashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the robots are ready, we&#8217;ll deploy them together in the streets of Paris and see what happens,\u201d Borlongan told <em>Mashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the application, she mentioned the Champs Elys\u00e9es, the banks of the Seine and the streets along the Canal Saint Martin. We&#8217;ll do what I can to get her the permits she needs from the city of course,&#8221; she wrote to <em>Mashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Borlongan also wrote an open letter to Eva on Facebook, discussing how much the 10-year-old&#8217;s pitch inspired her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was nothing on the website that said the program was open to 10 year olds but \u2014 as you must have noticed \u2014 nothing that said that it was not,&#8221; said Borlongan. She also mentioned that most of the other applicants were &#8220;PhDs and seasoned urban designers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my hope that your work on robotics will encourage more young girls all over the world \u2014 not just to code, but to be as brave as you, in asking for help and actively looking for different ways to learn and grow,&#8221; she told Eva.<\/p>\n<p>Borlongan ended her open letter by telling Eva that she has been accepted to join other fellows in Paris for the program.<\/p>\n<p>Borlongan went on to reveal that after sending an enquiry to Thymio, the robotics company that Eva uses, they designated their president to be Eva&#8217;s personal specialist this summer. Thymio will also be awarding Eva their latest robot.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Borlongan told <em>Mashable<\/em> that Eva will get to work with a whole slew of experts in her field, including a Stanford professor of electrical engineering, the founder of Hardware Club, and the President of Maker Faire France.<\/p>\n<p>Borlongan also told <em>Mashable <\/em>that the 20 fellows\u2019 final presentations will be on September 7th in Paris. We hope guests get to walk to the event via happy streets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten-year-old roboticist Eva is the youngest person to receive Five by Five&#8217;s Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship. Kat Borlongan, a founding partner at Five by Five, shared a summary of Eva&#8217;s application on\u00a0Facebook. \u201cThe streets of Paris are sad. I want to build a robot that will make them happy again. 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