Hi! I am Krystian, I am 11.
I am the creator of the game-recommending app "Game Teller".
I would like to share a short story
about how I realised my idea
and encourage you to realise your ideas too.
It's cool, when something, that came up in our head
turns into reality.
To begin with, I was once in the game store
and I didn't know which game to choose.
I thought to myself:
"It would be nice, if there was a program to help me with it."
My dad said, that he hadn't heard about one,
but I could create it myself.
He told me about Startup Weekend.
Startup Weekend, it's such an event,
where people with ideas meet programmers and graphic designers
and try to accomplish something together.
I accepted the challege and began preparations.
At the beginning I made a to-do-list
with things I would need for the project.
How will it work, how to earn money from it,
how to promote it.
Then I conducted a survey among my friends
which showed it was worth making such a program.
The final point was,
that I had to write a speech,
which had to last one minute and not a second more,
had to be in English
and had to encourage event participants
to cooperate with me.
What I feared most
was what all those adults would think about me,
when I'd get on stage.
I couldn't do anything and so on.
How did I handle the stress?
I tried not to think
that I would just have a huge presentation and so on.
Just like normal day at home.
But adults at Startup Weekend were very willing to talk
and they eagerly listened to me.
My project made it second out of 24,
and thanks to this success I was invited
to other events,
such as Game Day, Startup Sprint, Spin workshops,
Internet Beta and TEDxKids.
The hardest part of the project is contact with my father.
Sometimes we talk about the same thing, but like in other languages.
I, in kids' language, he, in adults' language.
We can't understand each other.
The saddest experience for me during the project
was when on a Startup Weekend
I couldn't find someone who would make this project with me.
But finally, after hours of searching,
we found one brave adult
graphic designer and programmer, Darek Kosiba,
and then it was over the hump.
After all these events, I won a lot of knowledge and experience.
How does my daily participation in the project look?
Every single Sunday, I make a to-do-list
with tasks to do for the following week.
They are mostly tasks
such as programming learning, writing blog articles,
shooting YouTube videos and so on.
Sometimes I just don't want to do all this stuff.
Then I do them very fast - like a racing car -
get them quickly over and done with,
but at least they're done.
But like everybody, I make mistakes.
The first mistake I made was
that I messed up too many tasks
and when I didn't realise it, I got angry with myself
and mentally, psychologically, it was bad.
The next mistake was similiar to the previous one.
During a HTML course,
programming language video course,
I took it all too seriously and set myself one lesson per day.
If I didn't do it, I was also angry with myself.
And the last failure,
that was when I was writing a blog,
I would write 5 articles a day.
I thought to myself I'd become very popular,
but it didn't happened.
I also have my strong points.
If I am doing something,
I am trying to finish it.
I am not putting anything off.
I am also stubborn and learn from mistakes.
All these events changed me a bit.
I know learning new stuff is worthwhile because it allows us to evolve.
I not only play games and watch YouTube movies,
but I create various things myself.
For example right now I program, put my own videos on YouTube
and write blogs.
In the past few weeks? I've been working on a new project,
Kids On Bits workshops,
where children can make their ideas reality just like me
and in the provcess we are learning some programming and English.
I think that the fact I can independently conduct my workshops,
I owe it to my earlier actions
and successes,
whereby I won the trust of my teachers.
I would like to thank my headmaster and IT teacher.
They really helped me in workshop organization
and don't interfere in the way I lead it.
I thank you for your attention.
Remember it is worth to pursue your dreams and ideas.
If anyone tells you something is impossible,
just don't listen to him.
Thank you.
(Applause)