She's Building a Robot: (Book for STEM girls ages 8-12)
She's Building a Robot: (Book for STEM girls ages 8-12)
by Mick Liubinskas, ,
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An Inspirational Book for Girls Who Love STEM
“This book is an inspiration to the next-gen of women innovators all over the world.”― Charlotte Yarkoni, CVP Cloud & AI, Microsoft
AZ is a young girl who finds herself in a robot building competition. Can she use girl power to overcome crashes, explosions, and hackers to beat school bully and three-time champ, Dalk?
Smart and strong is the new pretty. In this funny, action-packed book about robots for kids, talented AZ fights gender and learns tough lessons on leadership. With the help of her quirky friends, Li and 10, the team builds a feisty robot named Ada. Together, they work hard, solve puzzles, grow in confidence, and learn the importance of friendship and collaboration.
All science girls welcome! Written to raise awareness about the challenges faced by women in science and engineering, She’s Building a Robot celebrates voices from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic background. Perfect for bedtime stories or girls who code, She’s Building a Robot gives young women the opportunity to relate to smart characters, promotes girl empowerment, and shows that there’s room in STEM for girls.
If you’re looking for young girl gifts, robot books for kids, or stories for children―or enjoyed books like The Fourteenth Goldfish, Women in Science, and Hidden Figures Young Reader’ Edition―then She’s Building a Robot is your next read!
About the Author
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Mick Liubinskas
Mick Liubinskas is a loving dad of two girls and a boy and married to a wonderfully supportive (and patient) woman.
Mick is a high energy, technology entrepreneur, investor, author, speaker and industry leader.
He is a big believer that the world will be a happier, better place when we have fairness across gender, race, and culture. He has interviewed more than fifty women in robotics, technology, science, engineering, and maths to share their stories and inspire young girls.
Mick is passionate about what individuals can do day in day out to get the planet to sustainability and avoid catastrophic climate change. He doesn’t like take away coffee cups.
He programmed his Commodore 64 at age 8, sold computer networks at age 17, raised capital at 22, and ran marketing globally for Kazaa at 26.
Mick has co-founded 4 technology startup companies, including three years in San Francisco. This has included evaluating 1,000’s of ideas, building first products, getting first customers, launching globally, raising capital, closing businesses, selling businesses, and all the emotional rollercoaster rides in between.
Mick is known as Mr Focus due to his strong drive for starting small and fast, doing fast testing on the road to success and avoiding the entrepreneurial distractions. He co-authored a workbook called Startup Focus which sold 5,000 copies.
For fun he loves surfing, playing football (the round ball variety), and singing bad karaoke. -
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