Like just about everything, the art of creating quotable quotes can be learned.

Once you know how, playing with ideas and words is easy, enjoyable and empowering.

It can also showcase your expertise, publicize your vision/mission, raise your profile, enhance your personal and/or professional brand and increase your business success.

Of the estimated 110 million children in the world who do not attend primary school, more than 60 million are girls. The 60 million girls Foundation knows that programs directed towards girls’ education are the most effective community investment in the developing world.  

60 million girls Foundation is a group of committed women working to support education projects that target the most vulnerable and marginalized girls in countries with the greatest gender inequality.

In a zippy demo at TED U, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different kinds of homemade play dough can be used to demonstrate electrical properties -- by lighting up LEDs, spinning motors, and turning little kids into circuit designers.

AnnMarie Thomas works on the playful side of engineering -- using cool tools to teach and help others.

AnnMarie Thomas joined the faculty of the University of St. Thomas in the fall of 2006.

Previously, she was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design. She is the director of the UST Design laboratory and leads a team of students looking at both the playful side of engineering (squishy circuits for students, the science of circus, toy design) and ways to use engineering design to help others (projects in technology design for older adults).