Name: 安妮-瑪麗-伊瑪菲頓：前天才兒童重塑科技世界 | BBC Ideas (Anne-Marie Imafidon: The former child genius reshaping the world of tech | BBC Ideas)
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My name is Anne-Marie Imafidon and I wear a number of different hats.

我叫安妮-瑪麗-伊瑪菲頓，身兼數職。

我是《掌控鞋子》一書的作者。

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Now is Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, who's CEO and co-founder of the STEMET, which aims to inspire and promote the next generation of young women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

現在是 Anne-Marie Imafidon 博士，她是 STEMET 的首席執行官和聯合創始人，該組織旨在激勵和促進下一代年輕女性學習科學、技術、工程和數學。

And I do lots of other different bits and pieces.

我還做很多其他不同的零碎工作。

The things that land in my inbox, people are like, hey, there's this show called Countdown, have you heard of it?

我收件箱裡的東西，人們會問，嘿，有個節目叫 "倒計時"，你聽說過嗎？

我是安妮-瑪麗-伊瑪菲頓博士。

Dr Anne-Marie is a computing and mathematics genius who speaks five languages.

安妮-瑪麗博士是一位計算機和數學天才，會說五種語言。

She got two GCSEs while still at primary school and is the president of the British Science Association.

她在小學時就獲得了兩門普通中等教育證書（GCSE），還是英國科學協會的主席。

If it looks like there's a plan, then that's very interesting for me to learn.

如果看起來是有計劃的，那我就很有興趣瞭解。

I think, or I'll put it this way, I think everyone's special.

我覺得，或者這麼說吧，我覺得每個人都很特別。

I just don't think most folks have figured out what that special is.

我只是覺得大多數人還沒有搞清楚這種特殊性是什麼。

There's an element of the way I've been able to take opportunities and not be afraid to try things and fail and succeed that maybe is special.

我能夠抓住機會，不害怕嘗試、失敗和成功，這也許是我與眾不同的地方。

Like, there are a lot of things I can't do.

Yeah, we've always only been East, never lived anywhere else.

是啊，我們一直都只住在東部，從沒在其他地方住過。

Like, our whole lives are centred around here.

就像，我們的整個生活都圍繞著這裡。

Like, there's just everybody is here, and they're coexisting and enjoying life together.

每個人都在這裡，共存共榮，享受生活。

Eldest of five.  You don't choose it, do you?

五個孩子中的老大  不是你選的吧？

No, because if you're first, you're the guinea pig.

不，因為如果你是第一個，你就是小白鼠。

So school was frustrating in part because of the repetition.

是以，上學之所以令人沮喪，部分原因在於重複。

Education is repetitive because that's how most folks learn.

教育是重複性的，因為大多數人都是這樣學習的。

We did this last year, and I remember us doing it last year, and it really made sense last year, so we can do something else.

我們去年就這樣做了，我記得我們去年就這樣做了，去年這樣做真的很有意義，所以我們可以做別的事情。

Then it just turned into, I'm just going to sit and talk to Tolu, I'm just going to sit and talk to Michael, I'm going to sit and talk to Rebecca.

然後就變成了，我要坐下來和託魯談談，我要坐下來和邁克爾談談，我要坐下來和麗貝卡談談。

I realised that, oh, she finishes her work early, and then she gets into mischief.

我意識到，哦，她很早就完成了工作，然後她就開始搗蛋。

So we have to make sure that we see how we can get rid of that mischievous behaviour.

是以，我們必須確保瞭解如何才能擺脫這種調皮的行為。

Every child is gifted and talented in ways and manners that I may not know, you may not know.

每個孩子都天賦異稟、才華橫溢，我可能不知道，你們也可能不知道。

So let's find out the talent of each child.

讓我們來看看每個孩子的天賦吧。

There's a book that we found that's done this, or your cousin's doing such and such subject, let's try that.

我們發現有一本書是這樣寫的，或者你的表弟在做這樣那樣的課題，讓我們試試看。

At one point, I did Greek lessons, I did Chinese lessons, Mandarin.

有一次，我上希臘語課，上中文課，國語。

There were just a lot of other things that were free and available outside.

外面還有很多其他免費的東西。

We had lots of different things at home, and I was incredibly curious.

我們家裡有很多不同的東西，我非常好奇。

That curiosity and wanting to understand how that works, OK, if that works that way, what do we do with that?

這種好奇心和想要了解其工作原理的想法，好吧，如果是這樣，我們該怎麼做呢？

So I was about four when I got to the part with the VCR player.

所以，當我看到錄像機那部分時，我大概只有四歲。

The thing was completely, no matter what button I pressed, it gave me something totally different.

無論我按下哪個按鈕，它都會給我帶來完全不同的感覺。

And looking inside the cassette tape, you don't find what you're looking for.

再看看盒式磁帶裡面，你並沒有找到你要找的東西。

So, yeah, I'm going to go and have a look inside the VCR player and maybe try and lift it up and use other implements, like toy soldiers.

所以，是的，我要去看看錄像機播放器內部，也許可以試著把它抬起來，用其他工具，比如玩具兵。

So, we used to go to the computer market.

So, like, buying floppy disks or buying motherboards or...

所以，就像買軟盤、買主板或......

So then you get those bits and pieces and then try and think and put them together and, like, build a whole computer.

所以，你得到了這些零碎的東西，然後試著思考並把它們組合在一起，就像組裝一臺完整的電腦。

Yeah, you should know how to build a computer.

是啊，你應該知道怎麼造電腦。

When I graduated from Oxford, the plan was to go to the city and work.

從牛津大學畢業時，我的計劃是進城工作。

It ended up being kind of working on the tech for the people that were in tech.

最後，我成了技術人員的技術人員。

I mean, like I said, now, but, yeah, I'd sit on the computer all day for free.

我的意思是，就像我說的，現在，但是，是的，我願意整天免費坐在電腦前。

You didn't really need to pay me to do that.

你真的不需要付錢讓我這麼做。

But I enjoyed it because I've always been very curious and always been, like, we can use technology to solve problems.

但我很喜歡它，因為我一直都很好奇，而且總是想，我們可以用技術來解決問題。

And this was like a ready supply of problems that needed to be solved with technology.

這就好比提供了大量需要用技術解決的問題。

It's because gender-diverse teams make better decisions.

這是因為性別多元化的團隊能做出更好的決策。

I ended up being invited to speak at a conference with 3,500 technical women in one space.

最後，我受邀在一個有 3500 名技術女性參加的會議上發言。

And as someone who's always been in technical spaces but never been in female-majority technical spaces, it was quite alarming for me, quite life-affirming as well.

作為一個一直在技術領域工作，但從未在女性佔多數的技術領域工作過的人，這讓我感到非常震驚，同時也讓我對生活充滿了信心。

That, wow, I didn't even know I was in this minority.

哇，我都不知道自己是少數派。

And so I ended up there and had a bit of a road to Damascus moment of, no, I mean, you really are the only girl in a lot of these spaces, and that's kind of not OK.

是以，我在那裡經歷了一段通往大馬士革之路：不，我的意思是，在很多這樣的地方，你真的是唯一的女孩，這有點不好。

And so I ended up starting STEMET as a result of being at that conference.

參加那次會議後，我最終創辦了 STEMET。

The dream is to work in the space sector.

I am a first-year aerospace undergraduate.

我是一名航空航天專業的一年級大學生。

Biochemistry and, like, science to technology.

生物化學，就像從科學到技術。

You can feel so alone that actually just a little bit of effort to get folks together pays so many dividends for what they do next, for, you know, how they see themselves, the fact that they're not the only girl in the entire world that's ever done this and will ever do it.

你可能會覺得自己很孤獨，但實際上，只要花一點點精力把大家聚在一起，就能為她們接下來的工作帶來很多好處，你知道，她們會如何看待自己，她們並不是全世界唯一做過這件事的女孩，也不會永遠做這件事。

It's a frustration I do end up having with events that I'm invited to these days that are kind of manholes, right, where they've not been imaginative or thought at all about who they have contributing to the conversation.

最近，我受邀參加的一些活動讓我感到很沮喪，這些活動就像一個個 "沙坑"，對吧，他們根本沒有想象力，也根本沒有考慮過讓誰來參與對話。

And there was an email I got literally last week that had the same thing.

上週我收到的一封電子郵件也有同樣的內容。

I had to write back and be like, is it me, or do you not have a single woman here on this email?

我不得不回信說，是我的問題，還是你們這封郵件裡一個女人都沒有？

And we're talking about society in the future, and I'd have thought that maybe we might have a couple of women in society in the future.

我們談論的是未來的社會，我想未來的社會中也許會有幾位女性。

As we might want a little bit of their experiences now to be reflected in what we're discussing.

因為我們可能希望他們現在的經歷能在我們的討論中得到一點反映。

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