Lego for life

This paper presents Bee Thakore, an engineer who wants to change the world with a little plastic brick. And that's not all: she wants to change outer space too. Now Thakore, shortlisted for the IET's Young Woman Engineer of the Year award, wants to hook in a range of beneficiaries: from astronauts to Indian villagers. Lego, she feels, should be regarded not as a toy but as an important tool that can save lives, and her ambition to harness tens of millions of people around the world via Internet will help them to help themselves.