How To get Girls to Be Engineers
GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys “Princess Machine” (a concert for little girls)
GoldieBlox, a toy company was out to show the world that girls deserve more choices than dolls and princesses. They believe that femininity is strong and girls will build the future — literally.
GoldieBlox founder, Debbie Sterling, is a Stanford engineer who decided last year that girls need more choices than the pink aisle has to offer. She developed GoldieBlox, an interactive book series + construction set starring Goldie, the kid inventor who loves to build.
This year, GoldieBlox wondered what they could do to showcase the amazing inventive power that girls have. They recruited three young girls and that guy who made OK Go’s famous Rube Goldberg machine to turn an average home into a massive, magical contraption to help with this project.