Ayah bdeir biography
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Ayah Bdeir is the founder of littleBits, an award-winning company with a mission to empower kids to be changemakers through invention and creativity.Ayah bdeir biography
- 1982
Born (Canada)
- 1994
Receives a Commodore64 computer and begins to learn programming
- 2011
Founds startup littleBits Electronics
- 2012
Receives TED Fellowship and presents her TEDtalk “Building Blocks That Blink, Beep and Teach”
- 2016
littleBits joins the Disney Accelerator program
- 2020
Inducted into the Global Business Hall of Fame
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to an entrepreneur and a banker, Ayah Bdeir was raised in Beirut, Lebanon.
Ayah credits her parents for giving her a love of science, technology, math, and design and for not setting gender boundaries when she was growing up. As a child, Ayah loved to take things apart and see what was inside. By age 12, she had begun her first programming lessons on her Commodore64 computer.
Since then, Ayah’s career has focused on