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Our Solution

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Our solution's stage of development:

Pre-Seed

Our solution:

Deep (Develop Emerging Experience for Proficiency) = Pathways to Emerging Technology Proficiency (skill layers like Royal Conservatory of Music) + EmTech Community (Girl Guides with EmTech badges) + Inspiration from Leaders (family friendly conferences, festivals, exhibits, talks).

Focus: 1. early childhood development 2. returning caregivers.

Our pitch:

1. Emerging Technology INSPIRATION, SKILLS, COMMUNITY helping tech women caregivers concurrently return to work and invest in their protégé's neurological capacity to reach their full potential.

A. INSPIRATION - Experiential learning opportunities, interactive exhibits, speakers, workshops that involve mom and daughters, sparking the imagination, curiosity, and motivation to learn. (inspiration - Ontario Science Centre, Perimeter Institute and MIT Media Lab)

B. SKILLS - Learning pathways

Develop pathways to proficiency and skill layers, by reverse engineering the known domains of expertise required for Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Virtual and Augmented Realities, Robotics, and Regenerative Medicine - Algorithm Development, Statistics, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Information Theory, Modelling, Optimization Theory, Biomedical Engineering... (inspiration - Royal Conservatory of Music)

C. COMMUNITY - EmTech Girls - Global community constellations. Create badges that promote learning in a social, accessible, and age appropriate manner. Leadership that encourages research, tenacity, problem solving, collaboration, exploration and passion. (Inspired by Girl Guides)

2. W&G cannot use technology to fully participate if they don't know what is possible, don't have access to it, are not inspired to learn the necessary skills to prosper in the economy, don't have the support and encouragement to endure the setbacks and challenges, don't know how, and aren't part of a network connecting them to funding, education, and employment.

3. Anything that empowers women to acquire the skills necessary to gain employment in the high demand fields of AI and EmTech, while the minds of their children literally fire up to wire up, has the potential to address many complex problems from poverty to mental health.

The problem:

Problem 1: To reach the technology peak is challenging, takes time and proper preparation, motivation to endure challenges and setbacks, opportunities to experiment, play, explore, fail and succeed, and courage.

Problem 2: Many women have children and other caregiving responsibilities. They leave the workforce and many never return.

Problem 3: Existing institutions can't keep up with the pace of change, finance the necessary development of curriculum, nor educate the educators fast enough.

Problem 4: There is a lot to understand before a map to the tech peak can be developed. Without a map, people get lost.

Why our solution will solve the problem:

My evidence starts at home - two daughters N & M. N will join an elite MD PhD Engineering cohort in September at the University of Toronto. She won the top incoming student prize. M is and Engineering student and co-chair of an AI Innovation conference and beautiful piano & cello player. I studied Computer Science and Mathematics - full-time caregiver and single parent for a decade.

Academic research: Seymour Papert, Jean Piaget, Stephen Wolfram, Google. https://computationalthinkingc...

The interdisciplinary Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts led by Marina Umaschi Bers.

Stanford's Jo Boaler has published extensively in Mathematics Education.

Who recommended you to Solve - or - how did you find Solve?

I attend EmTech and have taken an online course at MIT

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