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Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.

So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to leave his job and spend his life making toys from things that people no longer want or need!

Mr. Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. After his graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.

But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using common materials.

Mr. Gupta found the whole project so intereting that he decided to leave his high-paying job and pay his attention to designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but are also full of scientific principles(科学原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.

When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr. Gupta created a Toys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.

Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations developed from cool science. Some young children have become so inspired (鼓舞)that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.

Making educational toys from rubbish

Reasons

●Most people never thought about building educational toys.

●Usually people go to the nearest store to buy educational toys in 1.

●To some families, food is more 2. than educational toys.

●We should help children to get interested in science.

About Mr Gupta

●Finding a good job and spending five years designing cars after 3. college

●Deciding to stop a good job and spending his life making special toys

●Volunteering to teach the children from 4. families

●Taking a year’s training course to learn to make science fun and exciting for poor children

●Focusing his attention on designing educational toys

About the website

●A Toys from Trash is a website with over 250 YouTube videos

●Many children visit the website and they are with the videos for the toy creations 5. on cool science

●With the help of his creations, children have even won international science competitions

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