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Interview 04 of 2112:11 PM · Moscone West

Nurkan Bolatov

Founder, Artisan Education

Magnetic, solder-free STEM electronics kits + learning platform for schools.

The full conversation

5:25 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

2:50 · Nurkan's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

No wires. No solder.

“During the limited time of the class students have to wire, solder, connect, and code. And what we do, how we solve that, is that all the indicators and sensors are connecting via magnets here on the PCB. So they don't h…”

0:24

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5,000 rural schools, no Wi-Fi

“We still have this problem in Kazakhstan. We have around 8 ,000 schools. 5 ,000 are in rural areas with lack of teachers, with lack of hardware or laptops, no Wi-Fi. Sometimes it's hard for them to learn, but we still th…”

0:41

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His high-school teacher hired him

“The founder, the CEO of our company is my high school teacher of computer science. He handed me to his startup. That's why I'm here. It wasn't that hard because I was without the job my last year of university. He invite…”

0:28

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An AI magnifier for curious kids

“You know that age when kids are too curious. They always ask, what is this? Why is that? So we made a cam magnifier with an AI. You take a shot and it tells anything about the photo. What's on the photo. It may be insect…”

0:51

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Hardware is hard

“Hardware is hard. It took about one and a half year to make the first kit for us. We're working three years right now. The next thing is maybe the hardest thing is to make sure that the content we provide to students is …”

0:44

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