ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gever Tulley - Tinkerer
The founder of the Tinkering School, Gever Tulley likes to build things with kids.

Why you should listen

Gever Tulley writes the best Twitters: Just landed my paraglider in an empty field behind Santa 8arbara. ... Making amazing tshirts with a laser cutter at the maker faire in austin. ... Washing fruit, putting sheets on bunkbeds, and grinding up aluminum foil in a cheap blender ... Updating the school blog, trying to figure out how many cubic feet of air are in a 5 gallon cylinder at 200 PSI. ... Trying to figure out if the tinker kids are going to be able to get molten iron from magnetite sand ...

A software engineer, Gever Tulley is the co-founder of the Tinkering School, a weeklong camp where lucky kids get to play with their very own power tools. He's interested in helping kids learn how to build, solve problems, use new materials and hack old ones for new purposes. He's also a certified paragliding instructor.

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Gever Tulley: Life lessons through tinkering

Gever Tulley ensina lições de vida através de bricolagem

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Gever Tulley usa instigantes fotos e vídeos para demonstrar as valiosas lições que crianças aprendem em sua Tinkering School. Quando recebem ferramentas, materiais e orientação, estas jovens imaginações correm livres e a solução criativa de problemas emerge para construir incríveis barcos, pontes e mesmo uma montanha-russa.
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This is the exact moment
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Este é o momento exato
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that I started creating something called Tinkering School.
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em que eu comecei a criar algo chamado Tinkering School.
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Tinkering School is a place where kids can pick up sticks
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Tinkering School é um lugar onde crianças podem pegar varetas
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and hammers and other dangerous objects,
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e martelos e outros objetos perigosos,
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and be trusted.
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e contar com confiança.
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Trusted not to hurt themselves,
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confiança de que não se machucarão,
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and trusted not to hurt others.
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e confiança de que não machucarão os outros.
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Tinkering School doesn't follow a set curriculum,
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A Tinkering School não segue um currículo definido.
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and there are no tests.
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E não há provas.
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We're not trying to teach anybody any specific thing.
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Não estamos tentando ensinar a ninguém qualquer coisa específica.
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When the kids arrive
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Quando as crianças chegam
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they're confronted with lots of stuff:
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elas são confrontadas com muitas coisas,
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wood and nails and rope and wheels,
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madeira e pregos e cordas e rodas,
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and lots of tools, real tools.
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e muitas ferramentas, ferramentas de verdade.
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It's a six-day immersive experience for the kids.
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É uma experiência de imersão de seis dias para as crianças.
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And within that context, we can offer the kids time --
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E dentro desse conceito, podemos oferecer a elas tempo.
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something that seems in short supply
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Algo que parece estar escasso
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in their over-scheduled lives.
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em suas vidas sobrecarregadas.
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Our goal is to ensure that they leave
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Nossa meta é garantir que elas saiam
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with a better sense of how to make things
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com um senso melhor de como fazer coisas
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than when they arrived,
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que quando elas chegaram,
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and the deep internal realization
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e a profunda percepção interior
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that you can figure things out by fooling around.
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de que você pode interpretar as coisas brincando.
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Nothing ever turns out as planned ... ever.
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Nada acontece como planejado... nunca.
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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And the kids soon learn
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E as crianças logo aprendem
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that all projects go awry --
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que todos projetos dão errado --
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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and become at ease with the idea that every step
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e ficam mais relaxadas com a idéia de que cada passo
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in a project is a step closer
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em um projeto é um passo mais perto
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to sweet success,
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do doce sucesso,
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or gleeful calamity.
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ou da terrível calamidade.
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We start from doodles and sketches.
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Começamos com rabiscos e esboços.
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And sometimes we make real plans.
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E às vezes fazemos planos de verdade.
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And sometimes we just start building.
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E às vezes simplesmente começamos a construir.
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Building is at the heart of the experience:
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Construção está no âmago da experiência.
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hands on, deeply immersed
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Mãos à obra, profundamente imersos
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and fully committed to the problem at hand.
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e totalmente comprometidos com o problema em mãos.
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Robin and I, acting as collaborators,
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Robin e eu, agindo como colaboradores,
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keep the landscape of the projects
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mantemos o cenário dos projetos
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tilted towards completion.
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inclinado no sentido da conclusão.
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Success is in the doing,
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Sucesso está em fazer.
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and failures are celebrated and analyzed.
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E as falhas são comemoradas e analisadas.
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Problems become puzzles
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Problemas se tornam quebra-cabeças
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and obstacles disappear.
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e obstáculos desaparecem.
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When faced with particularly difficult
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Quando deparam com obstáculos ou complexidades
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setbacks or complexities,
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particularmente difíceis,
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a really interesting behavior emerges: decoration.
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um comportamento realmente interessante emerge: decoração.
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(Laughter)
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(Risos)
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Decoration of the unfinished project
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Decoração do projeto inacabado
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is a kind of conceptual incubation.
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é uma forma de incubação conceitual.
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From these interludes come deep insights
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Destes interlúdios surgem profundas inspirações
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and amazing new approaches to solving the problems
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e incríveis novas abordagens para resolver os problemas
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that had them frustrated just moments before.
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que os tinham frustrado meros momentos antes.
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All materials are available for use.
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Todos os materiais estão disponíveis para uso.
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Even those mundane, hateful, plastic grocery bags
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Mesmo aqueles mundanos, detestáveis, sacos de supermercado
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can become a bridge
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podem se tornar uma ponte
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stronger than anyone imagined.
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mais forte que qualquer um imaginaria.
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And the things that they build
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E as coisas que eles construíram
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amaze even themselves.
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surpreendem mesmo eles próprios.
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Video: Three, two, one, go!
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Video: três, dois, um, lançar!
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Gever Tulley: A rollercoaster built by seven-year-olds.
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Gever Tulley: Uma montanha-russa construída por crianças de sete anos.
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Video: Yay!
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Video: Yay!
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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GT: Thank you. It's been a great pleasure.
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Gever Tulley: Obrigado. Foi um enorme prazer.
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(Applause)
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Translated by Fabio Ceconello
Reviewed by Belucio Haibara

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gever Tulley - Tinkerer
The founder of the Tinkering School, Gever Tulley likes to build things with kids.

Why you should listen

Gever Tulley writes the best Twitters: Just landed my paraglider in an empty field behind Santa 8arbara. ... Making amazing tshirts with a laser cutter at the maker faire in austin. ... Washing fruit, putting sheets on bunkbeds, and grinding up aluminum foil in a cheap blender ... Updating the school blog, trying to figure out how many cubic feet of air are in a 5 gallon cylinder at 200 PSI. ... Trying to figure out if the tinker kids are going to be able to get molten iron from magnetite sand ...

A software engineer, Gever Tulley is the co-founder of the Tinkering School, a weeklong camp where lucky kids get to play with their very own power tools. He's interested in helping kids learn how to build, solve problems, use new materials and hack old ones for new purposes. He's also a certified paragliding instructor.

More profile about the speaker
Gever Tulley | Speaker | TED.com