Go out and make those connections, meet people, have conversations.
It may land you a dream job. My friend got an engineering internship in China by playing cards with a kid on a plane!
It may land you funding. It may get you invited along to a fabulous experience. Or an invitation to meet someone amazing. Or it may just give you an idea or insight that gives you a new perspective on your life.
Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.
I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.
Am I working towards a larger life goal? Am I learning anything? Does this help keep a roof over my head? I focused on a number of activities while I...
Playing with robots in the office with Kyle van Dordrecht. We timed ourselves putting a robotics kit together... then we modified the kit.
Our brain control Teleport got some great press! It was covered by the Brisbane Times, New Atlas, Mashable, BBC and NowThis. Brisbane Times: Robot...
Spoke at MIT's conference in Singapore, EmTech. Other speakers in my session spoke about autonomous robotic cargo ships, advances in drones and...
I’m fortunate to be invited all around the world to deliver speeches. In February, I was invited to the MBN Y Forum in Seoul, South Korea for a...
Wow! What a huge honour! I flew overseas in the wee hours of 27 January, and so the whole experience of being named Young Australian of the Year is...
When kids are in diapers, their parents enroll them into primary school. If all goes right, the right primary school could mean the right high...
When I became Young Australian of the Year a year ago, I wanted to give as many speeches as I physically could, I wanted to contribute to the...
They’re cheap. They don’t always look very pretty. You can even get some with a yellow hue! (And even if you don’t, but you leave them for too long,...
The NBN Stempreneur Initiative is a virtual learning program for kids in eight regional schools. It shows young people the breadth of opportunities...
