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Thomas Suarez, the next Steve Jobs? [Video]

11/16/2011 By 2 Comments

- via The Huffington Post

Thomas Suarez has two published apps, a startup company and a compelling TED talk under his belt — all at the tender age of 12.

In a compelling October 22 talk at a TED conference in Manhattan Beach, the Los Angeles student held forth on topics like tech integration in education, app access for all children, and how teachers could best use the classroom’s greatest resource — the students themselves. The video of Suarez’s speech was uploaded last week and already has over 400,000 views.

The tween, who’s fluent in programming languages like Python, C and Java, also discussed how difficult it was for kids his age to look for guidance if they wanted to get creative with software development. “For soccer, you could go to a soccer team. For violin, you could get lessons for a violin,” he explained. “But what if you want to make an app?”

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDAP1OQ9Zw&w=560&h=315]

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Comments

  1. Concerned Mother says:
    11/16/2011 at 8:07 pm

    Are they calling him the next Steve Jobs because he’s going to start the development of terrible products and then never finish them due to cancer?

  2. Dildo Dildoson says:
    11/16/2011 at 8:09 pm

    I find it insulting for the kid o be compared with one of most shameless criminals of all time.

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