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Mission Statement


Calling all future tech-know-logists...

Technology is only what other people know about, right? Grown-ups. Mad scientists. People with enlarged brains the size of elephant dung. Those people that we never get to meet, who work for big companies with exotic names.

WRONG!

Thousands of cool things are invented and built pretty much every single day. By boys and girls. By kids, and their grandparents. In every single country in the whole wide world (we checked, this is true). Some of these creations may actually be quite useful, and change the world. Others may be utterly useless. But that doesn’t really matter. Because technology is all around us, and it’s here to stay.  And that’s why we should all learn about it.

So be curious. Be creative. But don't take it too seriously. Learn to like technology, not be afraid of it.

It doesn't matter how you do it. We can all build our own Rosie. 

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