Connie Liu
San Mateo County
Project: Project Invent: Students Designing for Social Good
Connie is a 22-year-old teacher, engineer, designer, and entrepreneur; she is consistently looking for ways to connect students with powerful design opportunities.
In her freshman year at MIT, she joined a research group to work on FingerReader, a device that assists blind users with on-the-go reading through text-to-speech translation. Through working on FingerReader with real clients, she developed technical skills and gained an intuition for applying her knowledge to solving real problems and a confidence that she could make an impact.
Based on this experience, Connie started Design for America at MIT, an organization dedicated to helping students design solutions to problems in their community. She also continued to design assistive technologies, from accessible clothing for people with muscular dystrophy to smart pens for people with hand tremors, throughout her college career.
After graduating, she started teaching at Nueva School and opened a class for students to understand and build for a problem in their community.
Connie aims to empower high school students across the Bay Area to invent towards a better community. In her project, students will invent solutions to problems like homelessness and poor education while developing design and engineering skills along the way.
Read Connie's report: Project Invent
San Mateo County
Project: Project Invent: Students Designing for Social Good
Connie is a 22-year-old teacher, engineer, designer, and entrepreneur; she is consistently looking for ways to connect students with powerful design opportunities.
In her freshman year at MIT, she joined a research group to work on FingerReader, a device that assists blind users with on-the-go reading through text-to-speech translation. Through working on FingerReader with real clients, she developed technical skills and gained an intuition for applying her knowledge to solving real problems and a confidence that she could make an impact.
Based on this experience, Connie started Design for America at MIT, an organization dedicated to helping students design solutions to problems in their community. She also continued to design assistive technologies, from accessible clothing for people with muscular dystrophy to smart pens for people with hand tremors, throughout her college career.
After graduating, she started teaching at Nueva School and opened a class for students to understand and build for a problem in their community.
Connie aims to empower high school students across the Bay Area to invent towards a better community. In her project, students will invent solutions to problems like homelessness and poor education while developing design and engineering skills along the way.
Read Connie's report: Project Invent
