Brittany Young

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Brittany Young
Born
West Baltimore
Alma mater Baltimore City Public Schools
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Baltimore City Community College
Awards TED fellow
Website B-360

Brittany Young is an engineer, STEM educator, and 2020 TED fellow. She is the founder and chief executive officer of B-360, an education program that supports under-served youth. She was the 2018 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow.

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Early life and education

Young is from Western Baltimore. [1] [2] She was a student in the Baltimore City Public Schools, and says she had made her mind up about her career by the third grade. She eventually secured a place in engineering at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, which she graduated in 2007. [3] She started working as engineer and simultaneously taught courses at Baltimore City Community College. In 2015 she started working in education and outreach after she realised that engineering education could be used to unite culture. [1]

Career

Young is founder and chief executive officer of the nonprofit B-360, an education programme that supports disconnected young people and adults. [2] [4] B-360 makes use of dirtbike culture to build bridges between different communities. [5] [6] During the program participants learn about road safety, the mechanics of bike upkeep, bike customisation and how to use 3D printers. [3] She was awarded a Baltimore Corps Elevation Award to develop the idea, creating a dirtbike version of the X Games. [7] [8] In 2017 Young left her career in engineering to concentrate on B-360, and was supported by the Warnock Foundation. [1] [9] [10] That year she won the Black Girl Ventures first entrepreneurship competition in Baltimore. [11]

She was awarded a 2018 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow. [12] In 2020 Young was selected as a TED fellow. [13] She will deliver a TED talk at the 2020 TED conference in Vancouver. [13]

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include:

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  4. ↑ Hinds, Carolyn (2018-03-20). "BGN Interview With Engineer Brittany Young Creator of STEM Outreach Program B-360". Black Girl Nerds. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  5. ↑ "B-360's Brittany Young Is Making Her Mark". The Baltimore Times, Inc. Positive Stories. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  6. ↑ "Discovering You: Brittany Young". NBC Learn. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  7. ↑ "Elevation Brittany". Baltimore Corps. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  8. ↑ Ruiz, Rebecca (17 March 2019). "How one woman turned dirt biking into a STEM pipeline for black youth". Mashable. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  9. 1 2 "Warnock Foundation gives $24,000 to support social entrepreneurs in Baltimore". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2020-01-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ "Warnock Foundation | Brittany Young" . Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  11. ↑ staff, Stephen Babcock / (2017-12-18). "B-360 wins Black Girl Ventures' first pitch competition in Baltimore". Technical.ly Baltimore. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  12. 1 2 "Brittany Young". Echoing Green. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  13. 1 2 3 "Meet the 2020 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows". TED Blog. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  14. ↑ "Awardee Brittany Young. she pitched her B-360 program during Light City's Social Lab, and won the Warnock Foundation's "Social Innovator of the Year."". Baltimore Corps. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  15. ↑ "Brittany Young". Open Society Institute - Baltimore. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
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