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Five Year Old Girl’s Video Game Nets Her A TED Talk; What Have You Done Lately?

by Susana Polo | 1:11 pm, November 5th, 2012

Behold a screenshot from Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure, a more than year old flash game that takes about five minutes to play, with words, art and story by five-year-old Cassie, and all the programming done by her dad Ryan. A year and a half later, the goodwill and attention generated by the game is giving Cassie’s college fund quite a boost but more importantly, obviously, she and her dad, who is interested in reforming children’s technology education, got to give a TED talk. Watch it below!

(via Kotaku.)

TAGS: TEDTalks | video games

http://twitter.com/DanielManly Daniel Manly

I was actually at the TEDx Toronto talk and it was pretty great seeing this father/daughter team tell us all their story. It was incredibly engaging, the daughter was very funny and I hope that this sort of trend continues!
Anonymous

OMG I love Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure! I found out about it sometime like…2 years ago and fell in love with how absurd yet adorable it is. Good to see this!
Anonymous

more free advertising on the backs of he newspaper by the above.
http://twitter.com/JLuVeeGee JLu Vee Gee

Well, she is just too precious.

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