Michelle Dickinson, Founder at NanoGirls In Chat with Pramod Dhakal. Listen to this very interesting conversation.
Michelle Dickinson , also known as Nanogirl, is a nanotechnologist and science educator based in New Zealand.
Michelle used to be painfully shy and afraid of public speaking. On the advice of a speaking coach, she invented the alter-ego “Nanogirl” as a way to overcome her nerves. Initially Michelle used the name “Nanogirl” to write a science blog, then as it became more popular she started a YouTube channel and began to speak at schools and events. Michelle ran an edutainment company that was about to go on a world tour with our live science theatre show!
With $2.5 million in revenue through live performances in their books – everything was cancelled for COVID!
In 3 days they turned everything around, used their theatre crew to build a TV production studio in their office and used the 1997 html coding skills to create an online digital platform to help children learn STEM at home.
After 2 weeks they had customers in 107 countries and the whole business has moved to the online world.
Nano Girl :See yourselves as superheroes
In this conversation:
- Start of Nanogirl & the motivation.
- Challenges as entrepreneur.
- Keeping your kids during the lock down is important and how can parents can help kids to be engaged
- Concept of super heroes inventing super powers
- Future of education and digital humans
- Introvert Vs Extrovert in workspace
- Mindset of young women as creators and engineers
