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I have two passions:

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first football.

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I am a super fan, let's see 
if you can guess the team.

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(Laughter)

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I am of course, a Real Madrid fan.

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I am also a goalkeeper
at the Villanubla football club.

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My other passion are computers,
video games and programming,

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which is what I am going 
to talk about today.

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During playtime, 
we kids go crazy about

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Wii, PSP and Nintendo.

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We always try to play a little more

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by finishing our home works faster

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by cleaning up our bedroom,

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whatever it takes in order 
to pass the level,

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or to beat our previous scores.

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One day I thought:

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What if instead of just playing,

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I could create my own screens, 
heroes and bad guys,

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punches, pirouettes and extra lives?

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Unattainable? No, no.

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A child my age can do it!

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While new technologies are everywhere,

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and grownups use them for their stuff,

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such as computers in the cars --

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although my parents still get lost --

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cell phones, checking up emails, shopping,

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going through the internet;

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children use them to play.

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Because we are children,

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and that's what we like the most.

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We all know that for us children,

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it is second nature to handle

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those tech devices that many adults --

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Maybe because we're not afraid to touch,

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to try things out and see 
what is in there,

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or even break them, because 
parents can later fix everything up.

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(Laughter)

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This childlike curiosity helped me 
create my own games.

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I realized that I could learn by playing

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and play while learning.

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I could experiment, create,

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share, understand and reason

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how things are made, and then use that

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with everything else I was learning.

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Turns out that all that learning

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is what adults call Creative Computing.

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I was once told that 
programming is like a play.

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We have a scenario with our actors

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who will interact upon our instructions.

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We can disguise them to create animations

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or add up images, sounds, etc.

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You probably think: 
this sounds good, but a little kid,

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alone in his room, programming --

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Not exactly social.

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Well, there is more to it than that.

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It's an open, public community worldwide,

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where we can belong and where
we can publish our programs,

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or download programs and play with them,

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see how they were made, 
modify or improve them.

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Nowadays, this community shares

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more than 10,000 programs,

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in a community of children, grownups,

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and professors of colleges, 
institutes and universities.

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As I became more and more passionate,

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I made new friends 
with whom I shared creations,

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then I thought that if 
I taught my schoolmates

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they could also enjoy as much as I.

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Besides, programming helps me 
learn in a very fun way

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what we were learning at school.

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It was an aha moment.

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Last year, when we were learning 
about human bones in class

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I came up with a Q&A game, this is it:

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(Video)

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I'll show you the game I created 
to learn the human skeleton bones

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for a class I had last year.

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In this game the human body

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asks you where the bones are.

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I'll click the green check

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I'll display it full screen,

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and it asks you where the jaw is?

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you have to answer with the right number

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if it is 10, 11, 1, 2 or 3.

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I answer 10 which is the right one 
and it says "Correeeect!"

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but if your answer is wrong it says:

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"Wah, wah, wah".

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I recorded and added 
every sound to the game,

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I added right and wrong answers.

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The program scores right 
and deducts wrong answers

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so I can now play 
and compete with my friends,

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to see who knows the human bones better.

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(Applauses)

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I had so much fun programming the game

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and it became so helpful for my learning,

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that I asked my teacher
if we could use it in class.

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I wanted to show everybody, and so I did.

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We picked a day for me to show 
my classmates all those projects,

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I showed them how they were 
as capable as me to do the same.

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Of course, they loved it.

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Children and teachers liked it so much,
that this year we founded

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The Programming Club 
"El páramo de Villanubla"

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a group of 26 children, so far,

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who enjoy programming 
individually or as a team.

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Now I am working on a game about space

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(Video) I am going to show you the game 
I created with the video sensor,

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about planets and the solar system.

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You have to head punch the planets

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so they don't fall into the sea.

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I switch to full screen

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I added right and wrong answers, 
and here is the sea.

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The planets start to fall,

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You aim the camera towards you 
so it follows your head movements

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to head punch the planets 
on the screen, if you hit them,

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you hear the name and the planet shape 
switches into a label on the screen.

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and it scores points for every head punch.

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But if you fail to punch the planet,

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you hear them fall into the sea 
and a point gets deducted from the score.

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Well, I think you get the idea.

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(Applause)

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Isn't it cool? And knowing 
that I did it, makes it better!

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Besides I'm going to show it
to the 5-year-old kids at school

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who are learning about the solar system,

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and I bet this game 
will help them learn better.

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This makes me even happier,

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knowing that my games 
are not just fun, but useful.

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Yet, it's not the first time I program
something for the little kids at school.

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Since my parents noticed that I liked it 
and I was doing well at school,

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when I turned 7, I got a present.

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When I first saw it, I was like,
What is this, some cables?

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And they told me: 
"With this you'll do magic."

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They were right, I'm going to show you.

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It was a Makey Makey board.

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By connecting it to a computer,

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you can plug cables 
to anything as original as

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gummies, play dough, fruit, pencils, water

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or just by touching them,

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make programs and games
work as if it is magic.

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I told this to Marga, the teacher
of the 4 year olds at my school

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and she asked me if we 
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about music and orchestra instruments.

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Both teachers and students

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would make instruments 
with cardboard and foamy.

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meanwhile, I had to build 
the necessary programs

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so that the instruments would 
come to life and sound real.

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So I told this to Juanje, 
a friend of mine,

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and we both started working.

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For us this was an interesting project

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but it was challenging:

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because little kids 
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and we are children too!

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When everything was set, 
we gather all the kids

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and showed them the sound 
of their instruments.

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We even taught them that 
they too had music within.

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It was mind blowing!
Little kids were great.

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We organized groups so everyone 
could play their instruments.

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We were truly seen as magicians

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who had used some cables and a computer

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to impress both adults and kids.

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Well, do you want to se how we did it?

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I'm going to show you

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I brought some of those instruments.

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By the way, I want to thank my school

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for letting me show you 
a bit of that magic,

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something any kid can do

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just with a little of imagination, 
cables and a computer

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To play this super piano
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I have to remove my shoes.

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My feet are clean, eh!

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(Laughter)

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Let's see if you know this song.

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(Music)

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(Applause)

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Now I'm going to show you 
how water makes more sounds

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than those made when 
it comes out of the faucet.

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This song is dedicated to my grandma

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because next week is her birthday

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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(Music)

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(Applause)

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I will now need four volunteers.

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Here and now we are 
going to hear their sound.

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Let's see, the four guys over there.

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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Pick this one.

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You pick that one.

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Let's hear what instrument you sound like.

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(Noise)

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Wow! you sound like a noise!

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(Battery dish)

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You sound like battery dishes

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You have no sound.

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(Laughter)

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(Drum roll)

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You sound like a drum.

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And you, let's see what do you sound like.

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(Neighing)

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Oh we have a horse!!

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(Laughter)

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(Applause)

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I hope you enjoyed what I brought to you.

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See how I was not fooling you?

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You can imagine, create and share

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just with some cables,
a bit of imagination and a computer.

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Try it out kids! Stop just being gamers,

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and become creators of stories, 
game programs and musical projects.

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Our imagination is the limit.

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But go beyond!

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Show it to the world, upload it
to the web for others to see,

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and more people can play,

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but knowing that we as kids,

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can decide too how 
we want things done.

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And I ask all the parents 
that please help us put together

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programming workshops 
at schools so every kid can learn this.

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It is important for your kids.

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(Applause)

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Never forget that nothing is impossible,

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It's all up to our effort and 
desire of self-improvement,

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even if we are young, 
we have a lot to teach in return.

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Thank you so much for your attention, 
see you soon.

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(Applause)