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Mark Rober
The person I admire is YouTuber Mark Rober. Mark Rober is an engineer, inventor,
and YouTuber who comes from America, he is known for his YouTube videos which contain
science and gadget tools with creative ideas that he made quite famous. One of his more
popular inventions includes a package thief glitter bomb trap, and an automatic bullseye
dartboard. In October of 2019, he and fellow YouTuber MrBeast started the campaign
#teamtrees to raise enough money to plant 20 million trees by 2020. A goal which was later
completed within 2019.

Early life
Mark Rober was born in California, on March 11, 1980 and grew up in Orange County,
California. Since childhood, he started tinkering with the tools and items around him, for
example making a pair of glasses that help avoid tears when cutting onions. He received a
mechanical engineering degree from Brigham Young University and a master's degree from
the University of Southern California.

Personal life
 Rober currently lives in the city of Sunnyvale, in Santa Clara County, California. Where
he lives with his wife and son. Numerous Sunnyvale locations are featured in his videos,
including Las Palmas park and Trader Joe's Sunnyvale. Rober is an advocate for autism
awareness as his son has the disorder.In order to raise awareness about autism, Rober
tweeted out his support for those with Autism, referencing his son who has the condition. In
August 2020, during a video filming sharks in the Bahamas, Rober revealed that he tested
positive for COVID-19, delaying production of his video.

Career
Early career (NASA)
As an engineer Rober joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 2004. He
worked there for nine years, seven of which were spent working on the Curiosity rover,
which is now on Mars. He designed and delivered hardware on several JPL missions,
including AMT, GRAIL, SMAP, and Mars Science Laboratory. While at NASA, Rober was one
of the primary architects for "JPL Wired", which was a comprehensive knowledge
capture wiki. He published a case study about applying wiki technology in a high-tech
organization to develop an "Intrapedia" for the capture of corporate knowledge.
YouTube channel, science communication
During his time at NASA, Rober began making YouTube videos. His videos cover a wide
variety of topics, sparking ideas for April Fools' Day pranks and teaching about tricks like
beating an escape room and filming primates in zoos non-invasively. He advocates for
science, making videos testing the ability for sharks to smell blood in
water, fluidized sand and water purification.
In October 2011, Rober recorded his first YouTube video. It shows
a Halloween costume that used two iPads to create the illusion of seeing through his
body. His video of the "gaping hole in torso" costume went viral, receiving 1.5 million views
in just one day. The following year, Rober launched Digital Dudz, an online Halloween
costume company that specializes in Halloween costumes based on the same concept as the
video (to which Rober holds the patent). The company took in $250,000 in revenue in its
first three weeks of operations, and by 2013 his app-integrated costumes were sold in retail
stores such as Party City. The costumes were widely featured on news channels such as CBS
News, CNN, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Fox, Yahoo! News, Discovery Channel, The
Today Show and GMA, He sold the company to UK-based costume company Morphsuits in
2013.
In December 2018, Rober posted a video showing how he tricked parcel thieves with
an engineered contraption that sprayed glitter on the thieves, emitted a foul odor, and
captured video of the thieves. The video went viral, receiving 25 million views in one day.
Rober later removed two of the five incidents caught on tape, unaware that two of the
thieves were actually friends of a person he hired to help catch the package thieves. Rober
posted a follow-up in December 2019, teaming up with Macaulay Culkin and featuring an
improved design. Rober would post another follow up a year later, featuring a second
revision of the contraption.
Rober has contributed articles to Men's Health, and gave a TEDx presentation in
2015 How to Come Up with Good Ideas and another one entitled The Super Mario Effect -
Tricking Your Brain into Learning More. He has also made numerous appearances on Jimmy
Kimmel Live!. In 2018, it was reported that Rober had been secretly working on virtual
reality projects for Apple Inc., including the company's on-board entertainment for self-
driving cars, for which Rober wrote two virtual reality-related patents. Rober worked as a
product designer in Apple's Special Projects Group from 2015 to early 2020. In 2020, Rober
will star in a Discovery Channel hidden-camera show alongside Jimmy Kimmel.
In October 2019, the YouTube community released a project labeled #TeamTrees,
organized by MrBeast and Rober following a tweet that suggested that MrBeast should
plant 20 million trees. MrBeast and Rober worked with YouTubers across the globe in an
effort to make this come true. The goal of this project was to raise $20,000,000 for
the Arbor Day Foundation by 2020, and in exchange, the Arbor Day Foundation would plant
one tree for each dollar raised. Notable YouTubers who took part in the project
were iJustine, the Slow Mo Guys, Marques Brownlee, Hannah Stocking, PewDiePie, The Try
Guys, AsapScience, Smarter Every Day, How Ridiculous, Half as Interesting, Life Noggin, It's
Okay to be Smart, and HowToBasic.

I admire YouTuber Mark Rober because of is his unyielding attitude, hard work, and
curiosity. Rober always uses his knowledge and creativity to solve a problem and invites his
audience to learn with him. With his unyielding attitude, Mark Rober made several attempts
to solve problems and gave scientific lessons in each of his videos in an interesting way. The
video uploaded by Mark Rober made me interested in the electrical engineering study
program.
From there I also learned not to give up easily, work hard, and always try to improve
to achieve a goal. Mark Rober's inspirational value fits perfectly with my dream, namely to
become an engineer who is an expert in electricity and by applying the nature of hard work,
never giving up, and being creative in solving a problem.

references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rober#External_links