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While most fifth graders are naturally focused on straight chillin', one is already on track to change the world.
Ten-year-old roboticist Eva is the youngest person to receive Five by Five's Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship.
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Kat Borlongan, a founding partner at Five by Five, shared a summary of Eva's application on Facebook.
“The streets of Paris are sad. I want to build a robot that will make them happy again. I’ve already starting learning how to code on Thymio robots, but I have trouble making it work. I want to join the program so the mentors can help me.”
Eva, who lives in France just outside of Paris, has a blog where she shares some of her coding and 3D printing work, including this YouTube video of her robot drawing with chalk.
According to the Fellowship's website, the program is "a two-week immersive program focused on empowering our next generation of city problem-solvers: data scientists, DIY urban designers and open street mappers."
Borlongan also wrote an open letter to Eva on Facebook, discussing how much the 10-year-old's pitch inspired her.
"There was nothing on the website that said the program was open to 10 year olds but — as you must have noticed — nothing that said that it was not," said Borlongan. She also mentioned that most of the other applicants were "PhDs and seasoned urban designers."
"It is my hope that your work on robotics will encourage more young girls all over the world — not just to code, but to be as brave as you, in asking for help and actively looking for different ways to learn and grow," she told Eva.
Borolongan ended her open letter by telling Eva that she has been accepted to join other fellows in Paris for the program.
Borlongan went on to reveal that after sending an enquiry to Thymio, the robotics company that Eva uses, they designated their president to be Eva's personal specialist this summer. Thymio will also be awarding Eva their latest robot.
Mashable reached out to Kat Borlongan for comment and will update this article if we receive a response.
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