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来自中亚的六名女高中生能教区块链专家什么？事实证明，很多。
在影子项目期间，17岁的技术女孩们（TechGirls）在由美国政府赞助的客访活动中，于近日访问了弗吉尼亚黑堡的Block.one办公室，在一天的行程中尽可能多地增长见识。
对于经营该工作室的Block.one演讲者而言，第一课就是认识到他们的来客虽然已经更能够使用C++编写代码，但他们所在的国家并没有有效实施、教授或研究区块链技术。
Ruhia、Aizhuldyz、Bazieva、Jasmine、Karina 和 Sadiya接受了一次区块链的短期速成班，学习iOS和安卓移动应用程序开发所需的不同之处，UX设计者如何工作，以及新的加密安全威胁可能出现在哪些领域。
TechGirls由美国国务院教育与文化事务局赞助，连接并支持下一代STEM中的女性领袖（S科学、T技术、E工程、M数学），而今年该项目聚焦于来自中亚的女孩。
Block.one曾是登记参与TechGirls的STEM公司中的其中之一。
“鼓励年轻女心个探索STEM视野并不是说服人们我们在这些领域需要更多的女性，而在于她们能与年轻的男性一样有能力参与这些领域的工作。”Block.one的一名网页开发人员Tara Tritt在职业早期的时候曾说过这一番建言。
以下便是我们今年主持TechGirls所学到的内容：
1.全新的视角能为区块链技术的使用带来新鲜的思考
这些年轻的客人们几乎没有接触过区块链，并且也只是在加密货币的内容中听过区块链。但在一个小时的介绍之后，她们集思广益，想着如何在自己的国家应用这项技术：维护医院记录、持有数据、在军事渠道分享敏感信息、探测公司间谍活动。她们甚至完整地构想了如何打造一款叫做“Find My Puppy”（寻找我的小狗）的移动app，能让用户上传手里的狗狗照片、构画用户地址，并为寻找狗狗的人提供地图和方向，完美地寻找到毛孩子。
2.创造力与工程并不冲突
区块链和众多STEM原则可以看似枯燥而灰尘扑扑。但TechGirls在UX设计工作室发现了一项练习。她们被要求用彩色的便签纸写下与他人进行数字交流所需的词、想法、工具。为了什么？为了找出UX能如何利用沟通来提升用户体验。
“进入STEM的世界，你不必放弃解决问题的创意面。”UX总监John MacMenamin说道。
这些女生有机会见证艺术、绘画、色彩和创造力如何让她们成为更好的工程师、更好的移动开发人员。
3.Block.one打败大品牌
我们不想吹嘘（好吧，可能是有一点……），但我们本阶段所收获的最好的背书是TechGirls全体无异议地投票选择了为我们工作而不是大品牌。
当问到她们这一天与我们黑堡团队在一起最开心的部分时，以下就是她们的回答：
“我喜欢所有，工作坊的全部，与Tara Tritt进行的激动人心的讨论，全都喜欢。”来自乌兹别克斯坦的Sadiya Abbasova如此说道。
“最好的工作人员在Block.one。”来自塔吉斯坦的Jasmine Yulchieva附和道：“我真的喜欢与每个人所进行的了不起的对话。”
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原文/Original：
What can six high school girls from Central Asia teach blockchain experts? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
But during a job shadowing program, the 17-year-old TechGirls, on a visit courtesy of a U.S. government sponsored tour, gained just as much during a day-long stop at Block.one’s Blacksburg, Virginia, office recently.
For the nine Block.one presenters who ran the workshops, a first lesson was the realization that while their guests could already code in C++, they were from countries that are not actively implementing, teaching or researching blockchain technology.
But that hasn’t stopped the six – two from Kazakhstan, two from Tajikistan, one from Kyrgyzstan and another from Uzbekistan – who showed an avid interest in what blockchain might mean for undiscovered tech applications and for their future careers.
Ruhia, Aizhuldyz, Bazieva, Jasmine, Karina and Sadiya were treated to a crash course on blockchain, the differences required for mobile application development between iOS and Android software, how UX designers work and where the new cybersecurity threats could emerge.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, TechGirls connects and supports the next generation of women leaders in STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math – and this year began focusing on girls from Central Asia.
Block.one was one of the STEM companies that signed up to participate in TechGirls.
“Encouraging young women to explore STEM careers is not about convincing them that we need more women in these respective fields, but rather, that they’re just as capable as the young men entering the workforce,” said Tara Tritt, a web developer for Block.one, who gave advice from her early career days.
Here are three lessons we learned from hosting this year’s TechGirls:
- New eyes can bring fresh ideas on using blockchain technology
Our young visitors had little to no exposure to blockchain, having heard of it only in the context of cryptocurrencies. But within an hour of an introduction, the TechGirls were brainstorming on a variety of uses in their home countries: maintaining hospital records, owning their data, sharing sensitive information among military channels, deterring corporate espionage. They even thought through how to create a mobile app called Find My Puppy from start to finish that would allow a user to upload a photo of an available dog, mapped to the location of the user, and complete with a map and directions for the puppy seeker to find the perfect furbaby. - Creativity and engineering don’t clash
Blockchain and many STEM disciplines can seem dry and dusty. But the TechGirls found an exercise during the UX Design workshop was anything but – they were asked to use colorful sticky notes to write down words, ideas, tools needed for someone to communicate with another digitally. The end goal? To find out how UX can use communications to enhance the experience of the user.
“You don’t have to give up the creative aspect of problem-solving to enter into the world of STEM,” said John MacMenamin, Director of UX.
The girls had an opportunity to see how art, drawing, color and creativity could make them better engineers and mobile developers. - Block.one beats Big Brands
We don’t want to brag (OK, maybe just a little…), but the best endorsement we received from this session was the TechGirls unanimously voting to work for us over big brands.
When asked what they enjoyed most about spending the day with our Blacksburg team, here’s what several of them said:
“I loved everything, from all of the workshops and inspirational discussion with Tara Tritt,” said Sadiya Abbasova of Uzbekistan.
“The best people work at Block.one,” echoed Jasmine Yulchieva of Tajikistan, “I really enjoyed the great conversations with everyone.”
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