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This is likely the most entertaining and informative article about
@naval
you'll read! Written by
@isabellagrandi3
, TKS student. 🔥
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Exciting news! 🎉 The
@wef
just named The Knowledge Society a School of the Future – we're one of just 16 schools in the world who are pioneering the future of education to accommodate rapid advancements in technology. 🚀🤖🌍
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Don't touch that Netflix! Your curiosity doesn't need to stop when school does – that's why we're hosting free online sessions about disruptive technologies that are solving the world's biggest problems. Sign up for updates on this and more releases!
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✅18 years old
✅Co-founder
✅ Investor-backed AI startup
HUGE W for TKS alumn
@aryxnsharma
🙌🚀 Check out the full
@TechCrunch
feature on
@InducedAI
here
#AI
#founder
#impactbillions
@sama
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[Thread] Independent-mindedness is rarely taught or celebrated.
@paulg
reminds us how critical this mindset is for entrepreneurs to solve problems and make impact. See thread of takeaways from high school students on PG’s essay on “How to think for yourself”.
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“Who will solve the world’s biggest problems[?]
Very likely, it’ll be the talented teenagers at TKS.”
After being named a WEF ‘School of the Future’,
@Forbes
released an article highlighting TKS Innovators who are doing groundbreaking things.
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Big news to share. TKS is partnering with the United Nations for our Global Consulting Challenge 🤯
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This year, 9 of the 31 Masason Foundation awards went to TKS Innovators! Huge congratulations to TKS students Liesl Anggijono, Okezue Bell, Sriya Chintalapalli, Adam Dhalla, Maggie Li, Samantha Ouyang, Ahmad Shams, Aditya Mittal, and Neha Shukla 🎉
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We spotted a 🦄 in
@TeenVogue
‘s 21 under 21 - congrats TKS Disrupter
@riyakarumanchi
on being recognized as a global change maker!
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“TKS is unique for giving students both the hard skills needed to build next-generation solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems as well as the soft skills they need to communicate and create them” 🚀
Check out this amazing
@fastcompany
article!
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We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised over $1 million CAD in financial aid to empower ambitious teens to drive impact and build the future of education globally.
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Shout out to
@_pavidhiman
for winning $25K from
@_buildspace
Season 4. Clearly, the TKS community is fired up 🔥🚀
#impactbillions
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A little bit of good news for you today: one of our students just won a $10,000 grant to build out his machine learning models to find repurposed drugs for COVID-19! Solving global health crises = needed more than ever right now. Congrats,
@SeyoneC
! 🙌
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Great article on how Anish Phadnis, 15y/o TKS innovator, is working at
@cibc
this summer and advancing his passion in biotechnology and AI by building machine learning models for cancer detection and phage therapy research! 🔬
READ HERE:
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Where else can you find teens working in biotech in the same event as those hacking bcis or web3?
If you are in one of these fields, come join our Activate Mentor Showcase on 12/16
@7pm
ET to see what our most ambitious students have been building.
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We’re officially live with
#TKStayCurious
online learning sessions for high school students! 🙌🏻 Reminder: we’re hosting free sessions from now until March 27 at 2pm Eastern on different topics in emerging technologies — and you can still sign up! ⚡️
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Congrats to not only one, but FIVE of our students for being accepted as
@masason
Foundation Members!
cc:
@aaryinnovator
@ananyachdh
@CameronHKerr
@MukundhMurthy
@alishbaimran_
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Happy
#IWD
! Here's to the women who paved the way to show us what's possible, and the young women at TKS who are shaping our future.
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17-year-old Alishba Imran and 18-year-old Shagun Maheshwari are changing the game when it comes to energy storage. Recently featured in FLIK, theses TKS alumnae share how they are using AI to expedite the testing of superconductors. Take a look!
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This past month, 400 students from 5 cities developed a vision, idea, brand, and pitch for their own moonshot companies; scientific solutions that could eradicate some of the world's largest problems. They brought 10x thinking to the table.
Stay tuned for their moonshots.
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This news was too good not to share!
All five finalists of Patrick Poirier's Solving the Impossible award are TKS students!
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We've got some news to share... TKS has been honored as a Finalist in
@FastCompany
's World Changing Ideas Awards! 🏆
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Three TKS Innovators were flown to Amsterdam to spend ten days at
@Shell
’s cutting-edge Energy Transition Campus in Amsterdam to talk about solutions to shift this massive energy company towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
#futureinnovators
#EnergyTransition
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If a billionaire and visionary shares their key advice to acheiving success, what’s left other than to *start achieving*?
We compiled 4 pieces of advice from
@TomBilyeu
on how to accomplish your goals:
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Meet the woman who keeps your Netflix stream coming! Amy Smidutz will answer your q's about working at
@Netflix
and engineering systems to run smoothly for all 127 million subscribers. Sign up:
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Congrats to all the TKS alumni who are off to
@Stanford
,
@UCBerkeley
,
@CarnegieMellon
,
@Cornell
, UPenn,
@MinervaSchools
,
@Shopify
Dev Degree,
@UofT
and more this coming fall!
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To everyone who was unable to join TKS Talks today due to technical difficulties, we’re sincerely sorry. We’ll be sending a recording of the talk shortly.
Here’s a quick message from TKS co-founder Nadeem Nathoo.
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Applications are open now! We're taking applications for curious, ambitious TKS students for 2020-21.
Apply now if you're in our new cities, or if you're in Toronto, New York, Boston, Ottawa, or Las Vegas.
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🚨*APPLICATIONS OPEN*🚨
👉Visit our website:
🔬Learn about emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
👥Students 13-17 years old (no prior knowledge required).
PLEASE RETWEET! 🔁🙏
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13 TKS Innovators are speaking at
@EvokeConf
- bringing you the latest in data security, iOT, Software Engineering, and smart cities! Watch free and get inspired:
#CXEtechconf
#AdvancedStudies
@IBMCanada
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Meet the TKS team! These are the people working hard every day to make sure our students have an INCREDIBLE experience this year ❤️
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Congrats to TKS alum
@ben_nashman
for being recognized as one of 23 individuals in the
@thielfellowship
program, which launched in 2011, to encourage talented young people to pursue big ideas and start companies instead of attending college.
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When’s the next time you’re going to hear from the Lead Engineer at a space company and the former Head of Product and Growth at Tesla? Oh, and it’s free.
1 day left to share with anyone who should be part of this 🚀
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TKS is equipping youth to change the future! Check out our latest
@Forbes
feature by
@tvanderark
to learn more
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@chamath
Companies experiencing negative margins is different than selling an assets below its intrinsic cost. For example, if Uber replaced their drivers they’d make profit; if they raised prices (along with the market) they’d likely make profit. But a $1 bill will always be worth $1.
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"As a researcher, you're always excited, you always have the next question you want to ask. To me that's a strong motivator" - Shane Gu, TKS Talks
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This last TKS session we all shared our life mantra’s with eachother. It was super valuable in being able to find people who valued the same mindsets as you.
What’s (currently) your life mantra? 🤔⤵️
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TKS collaborated with
@Interac
on unique challenges related to Consumer-Directed Finance (aka Open Banking)! 14 TKS Innovators spent a day virtually working with the C-Suite team. Check out how TKS Innovators are changing the world of finance.
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This is the opportunity of a lifetime – to solve the biggest existential threat our world has ever faced. We're dreaming of the possibilities ... that a TKS student will one day win an
#Earthshotprize
.
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I spy with my little eye... four TKS Alum on Future Mind Network's Top 25 Under 25 list
Congrats
@0xSigil
, Alishba, Neha and Samantha!
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TKS x Harvard Biology 🔬
Innovators from TKS Boston visited the Harvard CRISPR Symposium this month. Naturally, they jammed out with genetic engineering PhDs about the nitty-gritty tech of CRISPR and it's potential global impact🔥
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TKS Activators know how to spread the holiday cheer! Shoutout to BJ, Jake, Eason, Dickson, Aleem, and Ahnaf who created a DAO to provide gifts for underserved children 🎁
Introducing elfDAO: a DAO where we are all elves - the workers, builders, and contributors of holiday cheer. 🧝🧝♂️🧝♀️ Together, we are going to buy gifts for children underserved.
A 🧵for how we’re doing this...
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"TKS allows students to find and ignite their passion." -
@KevinPeesker
🙏
👇 Learn more about how
@microsoftcanada
is supporting ambitious young students at TKS!
Last summer, we saw what students can do when they're empowered by the spirit of inquiry and the right technology. Learn about Microsoft Canada's intern partnership with
@theksociety
:
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Ambition. We don’t encourage it enough. We support paths of certainty, and penalize taking risks. What would happen if we did the opposite?
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In TKS we teach students that failure is inevitable when doing difficult things. It’s about getting feedback and growing from it 💪. If you’re not failing, you’re not challenging yourself. Here’s some takeaways from a TKS student after our session this weekend.
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“Just because you don’t go to an Ivy League doesn’t mean you can’t do whatever you want. I work with people from MIT, but I also work with people from community college” - Lead Engineer at a mystery space company
#TKSTalks
happening now 💪
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🧠Mindset of the week: Done > Perfect
Because there is no perfect. You can only get better and the best way to get better is by getting stuff done, learning, iterating, and pursuing high standards throughout the process.
Don't get it done for the sake of it or you'll have low
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Who wins
@ycombinator
hackathons? TKS kids do! 🦄 “Superhuman for your browser” Lipid by
@ThayallanS
and Jay Parthasathy crushed it.
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It's official! TKS is now a nominating partner of
@MoreheadCain
at
@UNC
, an organization that deeply aligns with our mission of helping students make a positive difference in the world.
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At TKS, we believe that our students shouldn't expect instant results. All the success we see is an outcome of grinding day after day, until the grind turns into results.
#hustle
#grind
#entrepreneur
#hardwork
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16 y/o inventor AND a teenage patent holder?!?
The grind does not stop. Congrats
@suryamaddula_
on your patent in electronics 🙌
#startup
#workhard
#impactbillions
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Knowledge is power 💪
@jackmmcd123
has been building computer vision projects since joining TKS in September. Check out his story and ours in
@BBC
!
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge...I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
For Einstein, learning wasn't just about learning - it was a way of living:
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪👩🔬
“Young women can’t change the world” ⁉️🤨
Say wha??? Let us check that real quick:
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14 year-old TKS Innovator Naila is hosting an AMA on reddit! She recently designed a flexible and transparent solar cell using nanomaterials. Ask her anything here:
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We were at the
@google
offices in Toronto 🏢. Natasha Walji, an inspirational thought leader and google veteran, shared advice on ambitions, goal setting, meditation, and knowledge. Intelligence is not just IQ. Understanding the world and how we can impact it is real power. 🔌
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein🌳🐟
#thoughtoftheday
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Having a strong bias towards action is 🔑. Amelia Settembre from TKS Boston wanted to become a better writer... so she wrote 50 articles in 5 months 🤯
Check out how a 14-year-old explains artificial gravity:
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Today 200+ students logged on to our
#TKStayCurious
sessions to learn about brain-computer interfaces. Never stop learning — you can still join the sessions this week to learn about gene editing, AI, and more. 🔥
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Sabarish has been diving into Virtual Reality since he was 14.
He got sponsored by
@Microsoft
to build in VR using the Hololens.
He was one of the youngest speakers to speak at
@WebSummit
2018.
...and we could keep going!
Here’s advice from him on how to find your passion:
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Shifra can move a toy car with her brain, Jay’s start-up got acquired last summer, and Ramy consulted with
@Deloitte
when she was 17.
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Sambhav is 12 years old and has already built websites, developed VR games and created video games! He's an innovator in the TKS Foundations program for 9-12-year-olds.
Last week, he presented for the SoftBank team, who flew in from Japan to hear what the 6th-grader had to say
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My DNA today:
🎃 👻
🎃👻
👻
👻 🎃
👻 🎃
👻 🎃
👻 🎃
👻 🎃
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Musk, Bezos and Gates all have one thing in common: they started early. When Musk was 10 he created and sold a video game. He made rockets, coded games, and read regularly; “I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents.”
To learn more, check out the link in bio!
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Right now we cross our fingers waiting for the next Elon, Bill, Jeff, Zuck, etc..
At TKS we’re figuring out how we develop young people that have ambition, drive, curiousity to develop best practices + knowledge to *literally* impact the world.
Thanks
@mwseibel
for today 🙌🏼
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🇦🇪 Live from Dubai
📢15 y/o
@KrishivThakuria
on stage
@gitex_global
presenting on his project Aceflow
✏️An AI-based platform that makes access to education and tutoring more accessible
#techconference
#bigleagues
#foundermindset
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Excited to announce our content partnership with
@wattpad
! TKS students predict what will be the biggest changes to the
#futureofeducation
and careers. Want to know what aspects will be disrupted most? Check it out:
#GenZ
#futureoflearning
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One of the most valuable assets is the connections you form throughout your life.
TKS Alum
@0xSigil
spoke on stage at
@campusparty
in Montreal. He focused on authenticity and networking, stating that you can engineer luck by being yourself and connecting with the right people.
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TKS Innovators
@alishaarora_
and Neha Shukla were recently awarded with
@DianaAward
- so deserved and we are so proud ♥️🏆
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😊 🚀 Amazing conversation with
@IBM
global leader
@skeohane1
about everything from creating the future, to human longevity, and philosophy. We look forward to visiting you in Boston later this year!
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TKS students were STOKED to meet
@SahilBloom
in Vancouver.
Having mentors to look up to on finance, personal growth, mindsets, philanthropy, and tech is great. Having all of those rolled into one? Amazing.
As a group of young innovators, this was such a motivating experience.
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Four TKS Activators,
@AnnaHeck15
,
@ManasiG5
,
@samanthaaouyang
, and
@Sualeha_Irshad
attended
@sxsw
2022 in Austin, TX.
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Want to do something good for the world today? 🌎 Fund the future of tech education and help high school students solve really important problems. We're now accepting donations from
@everydotorg
for our scholarship fund and grateful for all support.
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Cheering on 3 TKS Innovators sharing their views on how emerging technologies can help bring a sustainable future. Sign up to hear Gina, Naila, Ammielle and Samson - event starts soon
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TKS is taking over
@ElevateTechCA
this week! 50 Innovators will be repping us at the conference and four speakers will be hitting the Main Stage.
Attending Elevate? Details on TKS speakers in the thread - come watch us and say hi!
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TKS Innovator Agosh Saini participated in
@RyersonDMZ
's basecamp this summer as the ONLY highschool group in a university cohort.
His team won $5000 for their innovative approach to treating diabetes using a smart patch. We're so proud of them! 🔥
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It was so awesome meeting
@aimafidon
today at the
@meconvention
- we so much enjoyed sharing the stage with you and our chats backstage too!
#createthenew
💕
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What do
@Lilly
,
@winnieharlow
, and TKS student
@ananyachdh
have in common? They’re all featured in
@Refinery29
’s 29 Powerhouses of 2019! We’re so proud to be part of your journey to change the world. 🦄
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🧠Mindset of the week: Figure it out
Your entire life you've been taught how to accomplish things that have a clear answer. If you get stuck, you can flip to the back of the textbook for the answer.
But, this won't help you in the real world. No longer, is the ability to
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What a weekend! We're still vibing high from our kickoff weekend with over 500 incredible students 🦄🥳. Let's get ready for an incredible year!
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Want to build a moonshot?
In his SingularityU article,
@PeterDiamandis
references what's needed to take them on by the Captain of Moonshots himself,
@astroteller
!
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Ready to change the world? Applications to TKS are open until April 5th! Learn about emerging tech, mindsets, and start solving the world's biggest problems while you're still in high school. Learn more:
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Opening night of
#Collision2019
was LIT 🔥 with
@JustinTrudeau
@shahrzadrafati
@zatlyn
& so many more. Favourite part was getting to press the 🚨 do not touch button tho😆
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then vs. now
on june 23, 1960, the 1st female contraceptive pill was made available for purchase in the U.S
today, two of our students are working to create a new male birth control that could change the game
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We are pumped to announce 5 TKS Innovators speaking at
@Reuters
#REUTERSImpact
October 4-7 for an audience of more than 25,000!
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If we learn from our mistakes, why does the fear of making them hold us back? 🤔
Mistakes = growth; don't let fear hinder your progress. Instead, embrace them as opportunities for learning and development.
What are some mistakes that have helped you grow? 🌱💪
#growthmindset
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It’s Collision week and TKS students are already making headlines (quite literally)! 15 year old Arnav Shah was interviewed by CTV news discussing his work bridging the gaps in graph data and transformers in machine learning. Check out his interview here:
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"Most people dreamed of being an astronaut when they were a kid, but I always wanted to do my own moonshot" - Liam Hinzman
Last week, Liam was speaking at
#WebSummit
, the world's largest tech conference!
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