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Canada’s next generation of builders thinks they’re really onto something - The Logic

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Some 2,500 young people packed a Waterloo hockey arena to talk about what they’re making, and why the future isn’t just another Big Tech job

WATERLOO, ONT. — Before the man in the proto-Iron Man suit or the woman with the bass-playing robot took the stage, before the big screens at the front of the arena filled with googly-eyed trains or local landscape photos, before any of that, there was the message. It appeared twice, silently spelled out on screen, before a voiceover read it aloud. “You clearly want to make something,” it said. “So why not just make it?” On a Wednesday evening last month, a Waterloo hockey arena filled with dozens of projects inspired by that mantra, and some 2,500 people who’d come to see that work and…

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