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"Mobile experience study", l'étude sur l'utilisation des mobiles par Guillaume THÉAUDIÈRE. A frugal and flexible approach to innovation for the 21st century. A Viral Video Encourages Girls to Become Engineers. Who said girls want to dress in pink and play with dolls, especially when they could be building Rube Goldberg machines instead?

A Viral Video Encourages Girls to Become Engineers

That is the message of a video that has gone viral, viewed more than 6.4 million times since it was posted Monday on YouTube — an ad for GoldieBlox, a start-up toy company that sells games and books to encourage girls to become engineers. In the ad, three girls are bored watching princesses in pink on TV. So they grab a tool kit, goggles and hard hats and set to work building a machine that sends pink teacups and baby dolls flying through the house, using umbrellas, ladders and, of course, GoldieBlox toys. One of the kits, which teaches girls how to build a float for princesses, is $20. The ad has become a hot topic of conversation on social media, generating discussion about a much broader issue: the dearth of women in the technology and engineering fields, where just a quarter of technical jobs are held by women.

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