Web3 and Gen Alpha

EDCON 2023 · 23 May 2023 · 7:04

Ariah Mier y Teran, co-founder of MiniHackers, shares her experience of learning and building in Web3. She describes the group’s conference activities, hackathon classes and plans for educational programmes, and argues for including children’s perspectives when developing the technologies they will use.

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From EDCON 2023, hosted by EDCON.

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hello how's everyone doing today um today we're going to be talking about web3 and gen Alpha I think it's this one right here oh wait my name's Ariah and I'm seven years old it took me five flights to get here and I come from the United States of America um

me and my sister found in many hackers last year and um my sister is five years old and she was four when we met founded many hackers um you might be wondering how did we get into web three our mom works in web 3 she does security and she went away on trips too much and she went away from us too much and um so she crypto filled us into F3

um we minted our first nft with me so cool girls and uh we were at East Bogota and we won our first polygon bounty and that was pretty exciting and who was at East Bogota [Applause] um um you might be wondering what is a hacker I'm sure most of you know for those who don't a hacker uses skills to overcome a problem for example imagine someone stole your nft you can

use your skills to get it back and that's just an example you also might be wondering what is many hackers do we do fun stuff at conferences like daycares and parks and playgrounds but that's not enough we need like classes and workshops and we do hackathon classes like coding what is a hacker um like how to give talks and pin and like Express themselves and we do talks and panels we didn't

travel around the world until now and coming soon we're gonna do a summer camp with um that fun stuff and like classes and talks and uh um why is this so important because we can work together to um uh what do I say what do I say what do I say

[Applause] [Music] um kids have ideas too and we can use their ideas for it um like part of something we're building or actually use their ideas but um kids have ideas too and sometimes you just gotta listen to the kids for ideas because we're gonna change the world [Applause] um we need to hear from the kids um like I just said kids have ideas

um we need to hear for the from them when we're deciding the technology of tomorrow and see what they think see like what they have ideas for because they can also have ideas that might be slightly better slightly different but they have ideas too um we I hope you learned something from this talk I'm these are the three things I want you to walk out with in your head number

one kids and web 3 go together number two sometimes you gotta leave it to the kids number three it's important to work together oh um who here has a theory about Satoshi my theory is he built Bitcoin and was so it and was exhausted so he took a break so he took a break and um forgot all about it and just never

came back and I want to ask metallic where Satoshi is and give him this hat um um and I want to say thank you to the um groups that help me get here family now thank you for supporting me and helping me get here Unchained monkeys um thank you too for helping me get here and I love the swag you dropped off for me and I want to say thank you to my parents

for helping me get here too and have a nice rest of your day [Applause]