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My first toy was a box of transistors.
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Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.
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Maybe thermoelectricity will be able to power a tablet someday.
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Phone screens are too small to properly appreciate YouTube videos.
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I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.
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It's very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.
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Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.
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I was listed in 'Time Magazine''s 'Thirty under Thirty' and have given three TED Talks, too.
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I'm really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.
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I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I'm interested both in science and in art.
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Lots
Science Art Will
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I'm probably not as good in the topics that I'm less passionate about than the ones I spend all my time on.
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Passionate
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My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.
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I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.
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Able
Balance
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Arts
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I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.
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Should
Try
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I know a lot of people around the world have these problems where there's just no light, no electricity, nothing.
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I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.
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Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.
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Given
Steps
Encourages
Invent
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It is important for me to remember that time learning anything substantial, even if it's not my favourite topic, is time well used.
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Time Learning Me
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If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.
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Guilty
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Time Day Every Day
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What I kind of want to spread as my message to all kinds of youth that I get to reach out to is, you can do cool stuff; you've just got to put in time and be dedicated.
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Spread
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My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.
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Concentration
Hurdle
Divert
Sudden
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I studied physics 12 in summer school after I completed grade 12. Did I enjoy it initially? No, I had found physics difficult since grade 11, and I struggled a lot. Did I learn from it? Yes, and as I improved, I started enjoying it more.
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Completed
Enjoying
Grade
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Initially
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I think parents are probably really excited for their kids and want to give them everything. But there should be a limit on how much you give your kids. Because kids are quite creative, especially at a young age when they don't really know what rules are.
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I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights!
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Annoying
Batteries
Etc
Soil
Desperately
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I just think we need to find a way, because we don't dispose of them very well; they have very bad chemicals in them. If we could just find a way, maybe start at a small step with eliminating batteries perhaps in small electronic devices, and then possibly in the future go bigger, that would be great.
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Batteries
Chemicals
Devices
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