| 1. Ayah Bdeir's smoking habits are unknown. |
| 2. Ayah Bdeir drinks alcohol. |
| 3. As a child, she had a passion for math, science, and design. |
| 4. In 2008, she received a fellowship at Eyebeam in New York City. |
| 5. She has taught graduate classes at NYU’s ITP and Parsons The New School for Design. |
| 6. Before LittleBits, she worked as an interactive artist and exhibited at various prestigious galleries worldwide. |
| 7. She was a design mentor on the reality TV show "Stars of Science" in 2010. |
| 8. In 2011, she founded LittleBits Electronics with the goal of making electronics accessible to all. |
| 9. LittleBits is based in New York and has received funding from notable investors. |
| 10. The company focuses on education and STEAM fields, operating in over 100 countries. |
| 11. With a team of 100 people, LittleBits raised $60M and garnered over 150 awards. |
| 12. Ayah Bdeir has made education and innovation more accessible globally. |
| 13. She co-founded the Open Hardware Summit. |
| 14. Advocating for gender neutrality, she highlights that 40% of LittleBits users are girls. |
| 15. Ayah Bdeir has been featured in major media outlets and likened to "Lego for the iPad generation" by Bloomberg TV. |
| 16. In 2016, LittleBits joined Disney's Accelerator program. |
| 17. LittleBits collaborates with Pearson to create curriculum for Science and Engineering programs. |
| 18. Her inventions are included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and she holds over a dozen patents. |
| 19. She co-authored the first Open Source Hardware Definition, leading to the Open Hardware Association and the CERN Open Hardware Licence. |
| 20. She was a Senior Advisor at the Mozilla Foundation from 2023-2026. |
