How we can use LEGO to motivate youth for engineering careers | Yann Müller | TEDxDenHelder

Almost every one of us has built Lego at some point in our lives. But even though we all seem to enjoy building Lego, a lot of us stop to build once we get older. And this exact lack of motivation to keep on building and designing new things is part of the reason why we currently are in a worldwide engineer shortage.

In this Ted Talk, Yann Müller talks about the similarities of building Lego and the work of Engineers, and how he thinks we can use Lego to motivate young people for engineering careers again.
Almost every one of us has built Lego at some point in our lives. But even though we all seem to enjoy building Lego, a lot of us stop to build once we get older. And this exact lack of motivation to keep on building and designing new things is part of the reason why we currently are in a worldwide engineer shortage.

In this Ted Talk, Yann Müller talks about the similarities of building Lego and the work of Engineers, and how he thinks we can use Lego to motivate young people for engineering careers again.
Yann Müller has always been a very passionate Lego builder since as long as he can remember, spending a lot of his free time building models and sharing them online. In 2021 he started his own web shop called “brickships.ch” where people can buy instructions and sets of his designs.

As a result of his passion to build and design new things, Yann aspires to become an engineer in the future, and he would like to share his own interest for Lego and Engineering to motivate others to take the same path. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx