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Women Around the World: Yasmine Yehia Moustafa · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you a protection of iHeart radio, and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Women Around the World. We
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  Speaker 1: are back for more amazing women and ladies doing some
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  Speaker 1: big things. And uh Anie, though, before we start, I
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  Speaker 1: do have to ask you a question, Okay, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I talked about this before. Yes, did you go
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  Speaker 1: beyond just your local science fair? Did you, at any
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  Speaker 1: point go into bigger competitions? I did? Okay, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: talk about this part, and tell me about that. I did.
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  Speaker 1: I was more I went to I know I've discussed
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  Speaker 1: my spelling be experience in my geography be experience. I
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  Speaker 1: did go and because I loved science fair. However, I
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  Speaker 1: think I have discussed this before. I was sort of
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  Speaker 1: notorious for I don't want to say thinking too big,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what you should do, right, But I would
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  Speaker 1: try to do these things that were really difficult to
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  Speaker 1: pull off, and I would try to do two of them.
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  Speaker 1: So I always came with like two projects, and both
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  Speaker 1: of them were overly complicated in nature, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times I got disqualified for that, and I kept
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  Speaker 1: doing it anyway because I would just be like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if this idea will work, well, maybe this
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  Speaker 1: one will. And I could never decide on which idea
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to go all in on, so I would
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  Speaker 1: do both, and then I swear every time I would
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  Speaker 1: I have one that I was like, this is the winner,
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  Speaker 1: this is the one, because they would make me choose
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  Speaker 1: which Okay, you can't enter two things, pick one, and
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  Speaker 1: I'd always be like, Okay, this one, like might not
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  Speaker 1: perform as well consistently, but when it does, it does
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  Speaker 1: so much better than the other one, and it would
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  Speaker 1: always fail every time the other one is the one
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  Speaker 1: I should have stuck with. That sad oh, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it makes me sad too, especially because there was this
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  Speaker 1: one teacher who was very she's had a very sarcastic nature,
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  Speaker 1: and I could tell she was like, and he has
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  Speaker 1: done it again. She can never just enter one thing,
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  Speaker 1: and she would kind of laugh at me every time
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  Speaker 1: it was okay. I mean I had so much fun
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  Speaker 1: doing it, And I am somebody who really likes puzzles
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  Speaker 1: and like trying to figure out things and and like
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  Speaker 1: really sitting with a problem and trying to come up
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  Speaker 1: with creative solutions. All that to say this is a
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  Speaker 1: long winded answer. I did venture out into some like
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  Speaker 1: local science hairs, but I never went like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if to state or is even a thing,
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  Speaker 1: but like I only ventured out in kind of local
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  Speaker 1: science hair type things. But it was something that I
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed and really looked forward to, but also was
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  Speaker 1: a force of stress. Yeah. So I think I've already
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  Speaker 1: talked about the fact the only really good science favorite
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  Speaker 1: project that I've ever done was something that a teacher
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  Speaker 1: was like, here, I just do this, and it ordered
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  Speaker 1: it for me and sent it home with me. And
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  Speaker 1: I think I remember getting a prize. I did get
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  Speaker 1: like a third third prize for it. Um, And that's
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  Speaker 1: the only time I believe that was in the fifth grade.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so that was my and it was my little
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  Speaker 1: sprouts that I was I think, and using different types
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  Speaker 1: of light to see what was the most effective and
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  Speaker 1: growth and um, yeah, I can't remember, just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the results were. Remember one, I
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  Speaker 1: remember I won a prize. I didn't win it, but
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  Speaker 1: I want something, and I just remember because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: it was not my idea and I just could not
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  Speaker 1: understand what I was doing. So what was your favorite
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  Speaker 1: project that you did? I think that's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed I built a very elaborate volcano once
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  Speaker 1: exploding volcano. Know, so it was like a much more
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  Speaker 1: grandiose take on You're simple, you know, vinegar and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But I like built this volcano and when it erupted,
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  Speaker 1: it erupted like it caused a scene based on that
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  Speaker 1: people who were like backing away, and I made it
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  Speaker 1: like it was like paper mache. But then I did
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  Speaker 1: like this rock bass, so it looked like it was
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  Speaker 1: made of rocks, and the rocks like all it everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool. No, no one was hurt, no one
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  Speaker 1: was injured because it was in a you know box um,
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  Speaker 1: but it was definitely a more violent explosion that destroyed
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing that I was anticipated. I was not
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  Speaker 1: anticipating it was going to be that violent, and there
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  Speaker 1: was smoke like everywhere, like oh, but I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: that one. There was we had to build, like probably
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  Speaker 1: a lot of listeners had to do this. You had
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  Speaker 1: to build a cage for eggs out of straw us
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  Speaker 1: and see who could drop it from the highest And
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  Speaker 1: I came in second in that and that was one
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  Speaker 1: of those that cost me a lot of stress but
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  Speaker 1: also a lot of joy uh in the end because
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  Speaker 1: it worked. I think if it hadn't worked, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be saying right right, I haven't been successful. And you
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  Speaker 1: may be asking listeners why we are talking about our
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  Speaker 1: fun times with a science fare. There's a reason, Um,
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  Speaker 1: that is because we decided to come back into it
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  Speaker 1: because I think between fictional women around the world as
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  Speaker 1: well as we did the listener mill, we had a
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  Speaker 1: little moment of like featuring a lot of people, maybe
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different people, including the Olympic stuff as well,
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  Speaker 1: that we were going to jump back into the world
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  Speaker 1: of women in stem Uh and we wanted to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the works of Yasmine. Yeah. He a Mustafa, who
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  Speaker 1: is actually featured a think on the National Geographic documentary
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  Speaker 1: Science Fair. And by the way, if you've seen the
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  Speaker 1: preview for this, it looks like a banger because like
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  Speaker 1: these kids are going dancing and having the best time.
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  Speaker 1: So but anyway, she was featured on that because she
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  Speaker 1: is a phenomenal woman in stem so let's talk about her. Yes, So,
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  Speaker 1: Mustafa is a twenty three year old Egyptian from the
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  Speaker 1: village in the Damietta government. With the encouragement from her mother,
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  Speaker 1: Mustafa decided to attend a STEM school in Cairo, the
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  Speaker 1: Madai Stem School for Girls, which is a newer school
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  Speaker 1: that focuses on teaching women to become leaders of the science, technology,
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  Speaker 1: engineering and mathematics realm anywhere in those fields, which meant
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  Speaker 1: she had to travel outside of her home and attend
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  Speaker 1: a boarding school. Right and uh. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: any of her biographies or on her talking about her experience,
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  Speaker 1: she talks about how it scary was to leave home
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  Speaker 1: because it was rare for our young women to do this,
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  Speaker 1: but she was so excited about being a part of
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  Speaker 1: science and research she was willing to do it. Even
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  Speaker 1: with all the naysayers. She went forward and um, it
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  Speaker 1: is because of her own experiences in her hometown. With
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  Speaker 1: the fact that her community used the water from the nile,
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  Speaker 1: which is really highly polluted. She looked to improve the
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  Speaker 1: standard filtration system, which she stated was not clean enough
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  Speaker 1: at that time. Even though they were doing that, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't effective. So she did more than just trying to
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  Speaker 1: fix the system. She went on to create a system
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  Speaker 1: which was to burn rice straw to distill and purify
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  Speaker 1: the water, and it was able to produce not only
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  Speaker 1: clean water, but bio diesel and hydrogen which can be
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  Speaker 1: used to help produce air pollution and can be used
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  Speaker 1: as sustainable energy. And y'all, she did all of this
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  Speaker 1: several years ago at the age of seventeen, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think about that, I'm like seventeen. What was I doing? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: probably crying about Jesus somewhere. I feel like that's the
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  Speaker 1: constant thing for me. But that was the thing um,
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  Speaker 1: probably needing therapy. That's a whole other conversation. And with
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  Speaker 1: her family and schoolmates behind her, she entered to INTEL
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  Speaker 1: International Science and Engineering Fair and no surprise one with
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  Speaker 1: the invention she titled rice straw Power. But her accomplishments
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  Speaker 1: haven't stopped there, including the fact that NASA decided to
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  Speaker 1: name an asteroid after her. So if you've heard of
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  Speaker 1: the Mustafa three one nine one zero, that is her asteroid,
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  Speaker 1: and that is so cool. I want an asteroid. I
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  Speaker 1: have done nothing to earn it. So that's on me.
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  Speaker 1: Um And she is currently going to school at the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East Technical University in Northern Cyprus, studying petroleum engineering
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  Speaker 1: and she has published a book to tell her story
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to her life and love for science
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  Speaker 1: and research, with over a million copies distributed to schools
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  Speaker 1: and universities to inspire other young women who are interested
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  Speaker 1: in STEM. Yeah, and just in case you wanted to know,
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned the school that she was a part of.
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  Speaker 1: You should go on research. And there are some amazing
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  Speaker 1: things that they seem to be doing, including the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they are making sure that it's fifty fifty, like
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  Speaker 1: any of these programs are um boys and girls, so
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  Speaker 1: that not one is favored over the other. So that's phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: as well as the fact that they are pushing for
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  Speaker 1: more education and STEM and knowing that things like bioengineering
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  Speaker 1: are important in making changes in the community. So that's
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  Speaker 1: very cool. And yeah, we're excited to see all the
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  Speaker 1: amazing things that she will continue to accomplish. And here
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  Speaker 1: are a few words from her about the accomplishments so far.
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  Speaker 1: She says, what I'm proud of the most is not
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  Speaker 1: all of that, that being all the accomplishments, but changing
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  Speaker 1: the mentality of the people who are refusing the idea
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  Speaker 1: of quote a girl that will leave her home to
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  Speaker 1: join a new school and the idea of the girl
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  Speaker 1: who's traveling alone. Now these people are encouraging their children
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  Speaker 1: to do the same, and this makes me more than proud.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that, and I hope she does know
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  Speaker 1: that this is so inspiring for so many in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that she took a chance, and I love that
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  Speaker 1: her mom was super supportive about that, and and she
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  Speaker 1: even said too that her father, who had died when
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  Speaker 1: she was young, was someone who really instilled into her
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  Speaker 1: like being accomplished and asking questions um and researching and
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's such a beautiful sentiment as all
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  Speaker 1: well as the fact that she talks about the friendship
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  Speaker 1: she has in this type of field and all of
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  Speaker 1: them encouraging each other to do better and keeping up
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  Speaker 1: with the projects and and taking chances in things like
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  Speaker 1: entering contests when you think this is an international contest,
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  Speaker 1: I can't win, but she did and she kills it obviously. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's so inspiring. And I've just seen so many stories
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  Speaker 1: of young girls and young women recently who have made
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  Speaker 1: these inventions, especially when it comes around comes to climate
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  Speaker 1: change and sustainability, that I'm so impressed. Just amazing, amazing work,
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  Speaker 1: amazing things happening all around and very yeah inspirational to
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  Speaker 1: new generations and people who are watching and thinking maybe
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  Speaker 1: I should try that, or right, I can do that well.
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