Ayah Bdeir
Playfulness, intelligence, and creativity are at the core of everything Ayah has achieved.
As a child, she enjoyed taking her toys apart to investigate how they fit together and functioned. As she grew older, Ayah turned her love of engineering into something much more serious. After gaining a BA in Computer Engineering & Sociology, she attended the hallowed confines of MIT Media Lab, where she graduated with a Master of Science – and no doubt a wonderful network that will last a lifetime.
Her company LittleBits was founded in 2011. It produces realistic product pieces that snap together via magnets and are an amazing teaching tool for building inventive prototypes for both adults and children. They are fun, functional, and perfect tools for the imagination.
Over the recent past she has become something of a celebrity within the world of science – she was invited to mentor on the Stars of Science reality tv show. Rather more impressively (to us at least) LittleBits made the list of the top 10 startups on CNN. All of this goes to prove that you should never take the joy out of what you love to do.
LittleBits CEO and founder Ayah Bdeir thinks that everyone can invent and innovate as long as the technology is accessible. It’s a mindset that led to her founding LittleBits in 2011, which offers a range of maker kits of electronic modules.
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As an engineering student at the American University in Beirut in 2001, Ayah Bdeir found herself so bored with the monotony of the coursework that she begged her parents for permission to change her major. They told her not to give up, because she was good at math and science. She obediently stuck to engineering, but yearned for ways to make the application of science creative.
Just because you have a prototype, you don't have a product. Trust Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of littleBits, who knows the challenges that it takes to to go from idea to mass market product.
Ayah Bdeir Founded Littlebits To Make Science Fun. She Might Now Be On To Something Bigger.
As an engineering student at the American University in Beirut in 2001, Ayah Bdeir found herself so bored with the monotony of the coursework that she begged her parents for permission to change her major. They told her not to give up, because she was good at math and science. She obediently stuck to engineering, but yearned for ways to make the application of science creative.
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Just because you have a prototype, you don't have a product. Trust Ayah Bdeir, founder and CEO of littleBits, who knows the challenges that it takes to to go from idea to mass market product.
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