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SciGirls
2010 · TV series · documentary · 30 min episodes · 6 seasons
Scigirls is a show about teen girls getting involved with science by doing different experiments and studies.
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Disclaimer: this post may overstate things :-)
Have you ever seen the show SciGirls on PBS? In the episode "Robots to the Rescue" http://pbskids.org/scigirls/video2?asset=show110 , some high-school girls "team up with" actual roboticists to help develop a rescue robot. I put "team up with" in quotes because the girls totally outclass the roboticists. Sure, the girls are interested in "science" but they are totally not nerds. And they are planning MIT- or CMU-level behavior into these bots, and I don't mean wishful thinking but carefully planned and organized ideas, to the level that I think with more time they would have written the code themselves. (Spoiler: the hardware can't keep up, and the bots do almost nothing useful.) They collect useful data from the experiment and actually advance the project in the time they are there. Really impressive.