Maker-關懷與世界-Boyan Salt

孩子的翅膀，比我們想像的更大。

maker除了動手做與技術外，還要“理解你的周遭世界"+“從自己開始關懷他人"，

從認真的生活中，觀照自己、關懷他人、珍惜環境。

Boyan Salt: “If we want do something different, shouldn't we also have to think differently?" 荷蘭的Boyan Salt在16歲時，發現海洋垃圾的問題，剛好學校的自選專題研究，給了他一個深入探索的機會。原本以個人的力量製造個清海洋垃圾的網子，後來發現問題不只是這樣，所以他開始了他的Ocean CleanUP計畫，開始募資，在20歲時募得了200萬美金，不斷地改善技術，在全世界執行他的計畫。

學校的自選專題，可以跟現實社會有如此深的連結，絕對不是上網搜集資料發發問卷然後跑跑圓餅圖寫個小論文這麼脫離現實（我有諷刺到誰嗎？）！如同我之前寫過的，maker除了動手做與技術外，還要“理解你的周遭世界"+“從自己開始關懷他人"，從認真的生活中，觀照自己、關懷他人、珍惜環境～我相信過程中，他習得的知識與能力必超越在學校所學！

我們這一代造成的問題，沒有勇氣面對問題的大人留給了他們，他很有勇氣地接下這問題並開始嘗試解決。

孩子的翅膀，真的，比我們想像的更巨大、更廣闊！

18-year-old Boyan Slat combines environmentalism, entrepreneurism and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability. After diving in Greece, and coming across more plastic bags than fish, he wondered; "why can't we clean this up?"

While still being on secondary school, he then decided to dedicate half a year of research to understand plastic pollution and the problems associated with cleaning it up. This ultimately led to his passive clean-up concept, which he presented at TEDxDelft 2012. Working to prove the feasibility of his concept, Boyan Slat currently gives lead to a team of approximately 50 people, and temporarily quit his Aerospace Engineering study to completely focus his efforts on The Ocean Cleanup.