David Moinina Sengeh: Whose Story Is It?
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🗓️ 4 September 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When reporters call to cover David Moinina Sengeh's work, that should be a good thing, but it depends on what story they want to tell. David Moinina Sengeh, born and raised in Sierra Leone, is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab. His research in the Biomechatronics Group is at the intersection of medical imaging, material science, human anatomy, computer-aided design and manufacturing. David is on Forbes 30 Under 30 in Technology for 2013, a 2014 TED Fellow, on the Wired Smart List 2013, winner of the Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student Prize, and other awards. David is a cofounder of Global Minimum Inc. (GMin), an NGO that aims to break the cycle of dependence on foreign aid by empowering young inventors to develop tangible solutions to challenges, as well as creative endeavors like his own custom clothing line and making rap music that draws youth towards creativity and away from drugs and gangsterism.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is that all you a scientist? |
| 0:33.0 | I felt a huge. |
| 0:35.0 | And I just thought, well... It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:56.9 | This week's story is from David Moyina Sengay. It was recorded in July 2015 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:17.6 | I hopped off the train, ran as fast as I cooled, bashed into my office door, and without even saying hello to my lab mates, picked up the phone and dialed into the conference line. |
| 1:24.6 | Hello? Hello, this is David. On the other end of the line was a journalist who had |
| 1:34.8 | been asked to write about my story, to write about what motivated me to get into science and why I |
| 1:42.5 | choose to study what I was currently studying today. |
| 1:45.0 | Pretty much the kind of questions you get asked on the first date. |
| 1:50.0 | I've been on a couple of first dates before and had a couple of these kinds of interviews |
| 1:57.0 | and I practically knew the answer to this question way before it was asked. |
| 2:03.1 | But not this time. |
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