Bronze medals come faster than factories for a 16-year-old's earring. The earring exists… — @dreasmith08

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@dreasmith08's TikTok video "Bronze medals come faster than factories for a 16-year-old's earring. The earring exists as a prototype and Mphahlele says so herself. She is looking for investors, technical partners and funding to refine the earring and get it into production. Limpopo's education MEC Polly Boshielo has asked publicly for exactly that money, so the earring can be made at scale. What does the bronze medal actually prove? Judges in engineering-electronics tested the earring and rated the build at 16. What it leaves open is the factory. A working photo trigger, a paired device and a police alert are three separate problems. A prototype earring solves each of them once, on a bench. That bench is where most 16-year-old inventions stop. ***If I find out how we can invest, I will be back with the information!!" has 3,456,685 views, 329,038 likes, 3,883 comments, 14,859 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 10.06% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted over two weeks ago and runs 0 seconds. It has been saved 21,076 times.

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It was posted on 2026-09-05, over two weeks ago.