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Real Girls Change the World

Published: Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Went to Utah and spoke at the Girl Scout National Convention in front of 6000 young women from all over America.  Pretty insane!  The panel was called, "Real Girls Change the World".

Rehearsals the day before...

Girl Scouts Utah

 

Girl Scouts Chairs

 

And the real thing!

Real Girls Group

 

Real Girls Marita

 

About Me

Marita ChengForbes 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.

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