Go Out There and Make Something!: Super-Awesome Sylvia Todd at TEDxSanDiego 2013

Sylvia Todd, the girl behind the 'Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show,' is only 12 years old but has over one million followers -- kids and adults alike. On her show Todd gets herself busy with 'everything cool and worth making' -- like an Arduino pendant that flashes to your heartbeat. Todd is as comfortable with a soldering iron and a hot-glue gun as she is with a microphone and a camera. Her show helps us realize that today's kids are enormously capable digital natives, with unlimited potential.

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