Change Your Career, Change the World | Maya Vendhan | TEDxSTEMSchoolHighlandsRanch

In this talk, Maya Vendhan talks about the lack of Women in STEM, how it affects the real world, and what we can do about it. Maya is an eighth-grade student at STEM School Highlands Ranch. She is very interested in initiatives that aim at getting more girls interested in STEM fields. Maya is passionate about space exploration. She enjoys taking advanced math courses and solving challenging problems. She likes to get involved in community service initiatives and works with her peers through the National Junior Honor Society. She is actively engaged in her school’s math club, and Technology Student Association. She dabbles with engineering projects through her school and loves to code. In her free time, Maya enjoys playing the piano, painting, dancing, singing, and doing crafts. She plays basketball and is an avid NBA fan. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@peterroberts2757]

Brilliant speech. One of the best TED talks given by someone so young. She is so confident, it is very impressive. Loved it. Definitely worth watching.

[@RaviGupta-km2mp]

Wow! Beautiful speech! Inspiring and even a bit funny :) Very articulate speaker with logical ideas, supported by facts. Showed it to my kids and gave a like!

[@stephanierollins1659]

Amazing TED talk with superb and practical real world examples! Speech has clear focus on the main point of jobs of the future that have millions of job openings. It is a must watch for teens (or their parents) and also for those already in a career. As she explains, the rest of world has to follow Switzerland's footsteps as they have such low unemployment. Yes, more engineers, scientists and software IT programmers are needed to work on Artificial Intelligence as these may take over the world!! Speech given with smile and clarity. Fantastic!

[@sczntaylor5061]

Just from dating I can tell you a lot of women want to make money but not in these fields. The ones that do may have to put off starting a family like my sister.