Smart Girl Books: Marita Cheng tells the story of Marita's life to inspire young girls to be courageous, take charge and follow their dreams. It follows from her early childhood, growing up in a small town, to her creating technology that impact people's lives around the world.
Marita Cheng founded Robogals, a global organization that inspires girls about engineering careers through teaching girls robotics. For her work with Robogals, she was named the 2012 Young Australian of the Year and received an Asia Society Game Changer Award at the United Nations. Marita then founded Aipoly, creating AI technology for the blind, winning a CES Best of Innovation Award two years in a row. And then Aubot, making robots that care and enable. Named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 and the youngest Member of the Order of Australia, Marita shows there are no limits.
Smart Girl Books was created to tell the stories of inspiring women who conquered new frontiers and changed the world with their ideas. It doesn’t matter where they come from - it just takes grit, creativity and passion to shape the future.
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