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Pia Henrietta Kekäläinen
2015-06-17
Pia Henrietta is from Espoo, Finland, who also lived in India, Austria and even NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley!
She is a speaker in many subjects, World Economic Forum Global Shaper and marine scout.
Pia Henrietta founded and run mehackit.org, where curious children and youth are introduced to creative technologies in workshops and online.
In 2012, she initiated Rails Girls, a community driven initiative, teaching women first steps of
software crafting. RG has been held in 130+ cities on all continents. The founders Karri & Linda and Henrietta
received the Ruby Hero award, the highest honour in this field of technology.
In same year Henrietta & some crazy people launched the first Pioneers Festival
(future technologies conference), which was held in Vienna and became an epic event.
TEDxMRU welcomes Henrietta where she is going to share the importance of creative technologies in education.
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