A 10-Year-Old's Inspiring Letter Got Her A Prestigious Research Fellowship
“The streets of Paris are sad. I want to build a robot that will make them happy again.”
A 10-year-old girl who wants to make the streets of Paris "happy" with art just got accepted for a prestigious fellowship because her application was so inspiring.
The Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship is a two-week program for experienced scientists, engineers, and designers to work on projects focused on making cities better.
It's the sort of thing you might apply to if you have an advanced degree in computer science or urban planning.
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But Eva doesn't let trifling things like age hold her back. "The streets of Paris are sad," she wrote in her application. "I want to build a robot that will make them happy again."
Kat Borlongan, the founder of Five by Five, which runs the fellowship program, shared Eva's application letter on Facebook.
Eva said she was learning to program Thymio robots, like the one pictured above, to make chalk drawings on pavement. But she was having some trouble making it work.
"I want to join the program so the mentors can help me," she said.
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