Debbie Sterling TEDTalk
This TEDTalk is given by Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of GoldieBlox. In this talk, she describes why she wanted to make the toys in the first place and the process she went through to get toy companies and the public on board. She describes her desire as a child for building toys that she saw her male peers playing with.
She comments that the toy industry originally did not take to her idea as she hoped they would. But in her perseverance, she was able to see her prototypes on turn into toys that girls all over the world played with. Debbie is the perfect representative for this project because she is involved in so many aspects. She was a young girl who felt alone in STEM fields, ended up persevering through to a career as an engineer, and is now using media in the form of picture books to encourage other girls to enter STEM fields too. She believes in the power of girls in these fields and in a future where there is no longer a pink isle in the toy store.
She comments that the toy industry originally did not take to her idea as she hoped they would. But in her perseverance, she was able to see her prototypes on turn into toys that girls all over the world played with. Debbie is the perfect representative for this project because she is involved in so many aspects. She was a young girl who felt alone in STEM fields, ended up persevering through to a career as an engineer, and is now using media in the form of picture books to encourage other girls to enter STEM fields too. She believes in the power of girls in these fields and in a future where there is no longer a pink isle in the toy store.