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by raman325 1387 days ago
Wow, have a little heart why don't you. Sure, this isn't going to revolutionize anti-poaching, but it shows two things:

1. Teenagers can build cool things too! We need more kids interested in STEM and females are underrepresented, so these "puff" pieces are great inspiration for the next kid who happens to come across it.

2. All that was needed for her solution was a cheap FLIR camera connected to an iPhone 6, meaning you don't have to be rich/VC funded to experiment with hardware solutions.

This is Smithsonian Magazine, not the Wall Street Journal. I say bring on more stories like this!
2 comments
yarg 1386 days ago
Sure, so first place at the science fair?

There's not a hell of a lot of value in a constant barrage of hyperbolic articles telling us that the world has changed.

It's about as useful as parents telling their kids that they're the best and smartest that the world has ever seen, only to have reality tear the carpet from under their feet.

You can be encouraging and realistic at the same time.

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fennecfoxy 1384 days ago
They're not denigrating the kid, they're denigrating hapless journalists looking for clicks.

However as opposed to most articles of this type, this one isn't as "THIS IS GONNA BE WORLD CHANGING!!!!!" and more "look at this cool thing this kid did" which is so much more acceptable, especially if it helps get more _people_ (no matter who they are) into STEM.

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