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2012 Young Australian of the Year Marita Cheng delivered some brilliant insights at TEDxSydney on why we need to start teaching our kids to make stuff.

Marita has dedicated the last 5 years changing the way girls view engineering and encouraging greater participation in the field by delivering fun engineering and robotics workshops to primary schools in Australia and around the world.

A nation that doesn’t create is forced to just consume. And for the nation that does create, the sky is the limit.

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