create magazine cover

Published: Sunday, 05 June 2016

I spent the summer working out of the Engineers Australia Victoria office with 20 university students.  As a result they put me on the front cover of their Create magazine.

create

And here is the rest of the article. The full article is also available on Facebook.

create front

create story

Cover story

 

I did an interview with Audi magazine as a follow-up to being named their Scholarship recipient in 2015.  http://audimagazine.com.au/post/i-robot

Marita Audi hero

AUDI Award Stage

 

I did a fun radio interview with the BBC with another civil engineer, Nisrine Chartouny, who led a team of 600 workers in creating the 250 million Crossrail Farringdon Station in the City of London. You can listen to it by clicking on my face below:

BBC Marita interview

 

About Me

Marita ChengForbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.

I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.

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