- We're here to explore new ideas
on how to integrate technology
in the outfits
for our digital dance.
- I think we can all do something with science
or with computer science. [applause]
- Major funding for "SciGirls" is provided by
The National Science Foundation,
supporting education and research across all fields
of science and engineering.
The National Science Foundation,
where discoveries begin.
Additional funding is provided by
Northrop Grumman Foundation,
supporting innovative STEM education experiences
for students and educators.
PPG Foundation aims to bring color and brightness
to communities around the world.
- ♪ Girls in science, that's SciGirls ♪
- ♪ We need you ♪
- ♪ Girls in science that's SciGirls ♪
- ♪ C'mon! ♪
- ♪ If I need help and I have a question ♪
♪ Where do I go for inspiration? ♪
♪ I need to find the girls ♪
♪ What girls? ♪
♪ SciGirls ♪
- Ooh!
- Girls in science, that's SciGirls ♪
- ♪ We need you ♪
- ♪ Girls in science, that's SciGirls ♪
- C'mon!
- ♪ Gotta log on, post, pitch in ♪
Yeah!
♪ Want to get inside a world that's fascinating ♪
♪ The SciGirls are waiting ♪
- ♪ Girls in science, that's SciGirls ♪
- ♪ We need you ♪
- ♪ Girls in science, that's SciGirls ♪
- ¡SciGirls!
[soft music]
- Hi. I'm Izzie.
Here's where I live.
This is my room.
I love animals, reading,
cooking, and spending time with my family.
♪ ♪
My favorite activities are
playing soccer, exploring, and building stuff.
My parents expect that someday I'll become
a scientist or an engineer.
Look at this.
There are more girls that like the same stuff I do.
Let's go!
[upbeat music and electronic sounds]
♪ ♪
Science and engineer are for you.
Come on. You can do it.
♪ ♪
- My friends and I attend
The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria.
It's located in Queens, New York.
♪ ♪
My name is Marilyn.
♪ ♪
The types of technology I like to use are:
my phone, my computer.
If I want to write or read something,
I always use them to read
or to communicate with other people.
- My name is Marielly.
♪ ♪
Technology is important for me
because in this generation
there are many jobs in technology,
but there are not many women
working these jobs.
My name is Sheira.
♪ ♪
What I like about technology
is that it can help many people.
I see that technology can change lives,
and can help the community.
- My name is Nazaret.
♪ ♪
Learning science and technology in my school
makes me feel empowered
because I know stuff other don't know.
[soft electronic music]
In the TechCrew group in our school,
we create projects using technology.
- In TechCrew there are many different departments
where we can work.
There is the coding department,
filming and graphic design.
- Hi, girls. all: Hi, Andrea.
- How are you? - Good.
- Hi, Andrea. - Hi.
- We have a lot to do today.
- Andrea is a teacher in our school.
A lot of students don't see her as a teacher,
but rather as a second mother
that some would like to have.
- Basically, she administers TechCrew,
and motivates us to keep going.
That way we do what we want.
- Uh, I have very good news.
- Today Andrea gave us a new goal.
We need to apply technology
in a dance that is being prepared
at Dance My Culture.
We have to present it in a week
at the MOMI Theater.
- I have a question. Do we know about the dance--
Is there a story behind the dance?
- That's a very good question.
I'm not sure.
Maybe we can introduce a story in the dance.
- She thinks that we can come up with ideas
along with the dancers
to create this digital dance
in which we can incorporate technology,
like adding more lights
in the dancer's attire.
- We have these Spheros.
♪ ♪
Right? There like spheres.
You guys can control them with your phones
o with the... with your tablets.
- An Sphero is a small robot
that has a motor that moves it
and changes its colors,
and we will program them
using an application.
- I had never worked with an Sphero.
I didn't know these of small robots existed
and that we could code them.
- I'm very excited and nervous
because it's new for me.
I'm also very proud
because I think my group and me can make it happen.
- Hi. My name is Marilyn.
I live in Queens and this is my house.
♪ ♪
I live with my parents.
That's them on their wedding day.
He is my brother Kevin.
He's 11 years old,
and we both like to play ball.
This is my mother and I love her very much.
♪ ♪
These are our pets.
They're fish.
They don't have a name now,
but maybe they will in the future.
I love writing.
This is a certificate I got a school,
"Writer of the Month".
As you can see, I like the color pink.
This was a pillow we used in my Quinceañera party.
Besides coding, I also love volleyball.
I like playing it a lot.
I love coding.
Las summer we made this website,
where we focus
on how to get clean water.
We have another project at school
in which I focus on teaching other kids
to speak Spanish.
Thanks for coming. See you later.
- This is the dancing studio.
Hi, girls.
- We got together with the dancers
to see the dance that we're adapting.
The dancers are part of the multicultural club
at our school.
[electronic music]
♪ ♪
- You all have a tutu, right?
¿All of you?
As dancers,
what theme do you want for your dance?
What theme?
- About a girl who is entering
a different world.
- Now that we've seen the dance,
we need to brainstorm
to see how to add technology to the dance.
♪ ♪
- Alright, let's watch the video
to see how the dancers start.
We see two start at the front and two in the back.
- The first stage is planning.
If we don't plan,
we can't get anything done.
We have to create a plan.
- Where do we want to put the Spheros?
- On the sides of each girl.
- I think they should enter from the sides.
- Okay. Do you want them in front of these girls
or in front of these girls?
- I think in front of these two,
because if we put them here,
when they move towards the back,
they could fall down.
- We could find metal flowers and add light to them.
- For the head? - Yes.
- I think we can incorporate
the theme of community.
Sheira and I could take pictures,
since we like photography,
of different murals in New York,
because we are from New York,
and add them to the background,
while the girls are dancing.
- Right. - Yes.
"Murals-photos Begin the video about New York"
"Search, search, search"
♪ ♪
"Digital Dance"
♪ ♪
- Let's begin! Ooh!
♪ ♪
- Hi. My name is Marielly.
I am 17 years old and I live at home
with my mom and my dad.
I love to take pictures.
I like to take pictures of my family.
These are my dad and my little cousin.
I also have a lot of pictures of me and my friends.
I love taking pictures all the time.
Another one of my favorite things to do is painting
and drawing.
♪ ♪
When I grow up I want to be a teacher.
Right now I'm studying for the SAT.
We're at school
and this is an award we won
for MIT "Dream It. Code It. Win It",
and I'm very proud of it.
I love to make pancakes for my family.
My favorite area in New York is lower Manhattan.
See you later.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Today, we went to Greenwich Village
and visited a place called "Fat Cab Fab Lab".
♪ ♪
- Hi, girls. Welcome to "Fat Cat FAb Lab".
My name is Deren.
- We're here to explore new ideas
on how to integrate technology
in the outfits for our digital dance.
♪ ♪
Deren showed us today
the different projects she's had,
and taught us how we can integrate technology.
- This is one of my favorites.
It's a skirt,
but this you can actually program.
So this is called an arduino.
- It's a small computer.
When we give it instructions
through programming with a computer,
we can make it change colors
for a period of time.
- So these are also special.
So these are called fibro optic cables.
So what these do is they transmit light
from the top to the bottom,
so it's actually glowing at the same pattern
at the bottom of all of these little strands.
- I have a bow. - [laughs]
[electronic music]
- What if you, like, cut it short?
Do you think that the light would shine more?
- No, it's just all...
- When we went to Fab Cat Lab,
we saw that the skirt they had
was very long and the lights...
the fibro optic elements didn't give enough light.
So we think we can just take the...
the skirts from the area of the waist,
to use them on the tutus.
♪ ♪
- [laughs] - See you later, girls.
- Bye! all: Bye.
- We're in my house today
learning about arduinos,
and we're adding lights to the outfits.
- Here are the Lillypads. They are from Arduino.
- Daisy is an ex TechCrew member.
She helps Andrea
in coding projects.
Now she's a student in a college for engineering.
- Uh-huh. - Oh, they're sensors!
- It's a light sensor.
- Like...like the dress. - Like at Fab Cab Lab.
- We were listening to the music
so we could time it
to know how to program it
and make the lights go on
in sync with the music, whether it goes fast or slow.
Then we have to make some conversions
so the arduino can read the program.
- We need a final idea of what we'll use at the end
for the final project and how to put it together
with the LED lights and the arduino
at the bottom of the skirt.
- [exclaims] Wow!
all: ¡Oh!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[both laugh]
♪ ♪
- Look, look. I finished.
Let's see what happens.
- Oh, Sheira! - Good job.
♪ ♪
- Hi. My name is Nazaret.
I am 14 years old and I live in Astoria, New York.
This is my brother Gabriel.
- Hi. I'm Grabriel.
I am seven years old.
This is my dad.
- Hi. I'm Guillermo, Nazaret's dad.
- I live with my dad, my sister Ana Maria,
my mom... - Hi.
- And my brother Gabriel. - Hello.
- My dad is from Spain and my mom from Colombia.
We like to watch soccer games.
I have to support two teams.
My grandma made this doll for me when I was little.
♪ ♪
I like prosciutto from Spain
and arepas from Colombia.
When I'm not programming,
I love to ride my bike.
My favorite place in New York is Queens where I live.
Bye.
- Look!
- Wow! How pretty!
- I like how all the colors
connect with one...
- Story? - Yes.
- Marielly and I went to Welling Court,
a place close to our school
to take pictures that show our community,
to put in the animation for the dance.
Okay, we can take this one. - Yes.
- It shows the community.
And then we take one of Frida.
- Frida, yes. - Because it shows the...
both: Nationalities. - Yes.
- Okay. - There was one picture
that I really liked because it shows immigration,
refugees and my culture.
I thought that was important
and that we could add it to the dance and the animations.
- There are a log of Hispanics in our community,
so when they see this image they can connect with it.
- Okay, now we have the pictures in the computer.
Now we'll upload them to iMovie
so we can add them to the animation.
- Okay. - Okay?
Today we are in my house
and Sheira and I will work on the animations
to show while the girls dance.
We'll incorporate all the animations we created
and the music to put it in a iMovie
and to create a big video.
For how many seconds should we leave it on?
- I think it could be... Like 2.5?
- Point five? Uh-huh.
- Then... Have you done animations?
- Yes, I already did animations in Flash.
Something I had to learn
was to use Adobe Flash CS6.
That was... It took me about a year
trying to learn it
because it has many elements
that we can use.
We're going to use some frames
that will rotate and drop down,
while the girls dance.
We'll use it to create little frames.
Since they're different colors,
we can take the Spheros,
and make them the same color and program them,
but we have to talk to Marilyn y Nazaret first.
- So that... - So they can program them.
- What do you want to do first?
- These are the measurements for the stage
where the girls will dance.
We'll mark them on the floor.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Today we have been programming the Spheros.
We were watching the video that we recorded,
trying to match the encoding to the music,
and trying to come up with ideas
on how to we wanted the Sphero to move.
We are making them change colors
using the Lightning Lab app.
We use it to make coding blocks
that we'll use to code the...the Sphero
and make it move.
We have to set the Heading and the Delay.
- Let's try it together.
- Yes, okay. First we'll calibrate the Spheros.
We're also making it change direction.
We want to coordinate it so it follows the dance moves.
- Is it ready?
- Yes. - One, two, three.
[electronic music]
♪ ♪
- Okay. We'll have to be careful
with that Sphero because it moved further away.
- The Spheros are not working perfectly.
We need to change a lot the frames coding
in the program.
- It wouldn't stop and went the other way.
So we need to add...
- One delay. - One delay.
- As I'm working with the Spheros,
I worry that one of the dancers may step on it
or... or not... or not... That it may lose control
and wont' be able to, uh, fix it during the dance.
- Nazaret, can you show me the video again?
I want to count how many times the dancers
move from side to side.
- In the beginning we wanted to make four Spheros,
but after seeing all the work needed
to make only two,
we decided to cut it down to two.
I feel kind of bad that we could make four,
but we'll do the best we can.
- Okay. Thank you.
- Hi. My name is Sheira.
I am 15 years old and this is my home.
These are my sisters Valeria and Julieta,
and we like to make crafts.
- We're making a flower,
but we're putting this on top of this.
And we'll... We can add whatever we want.
My favorite thing to do is reading.
I like this book
because it's about immigrants
and it has stories and tales
about immigrants that came to America.
I like to make memories of my friends,
so I take a lot of pictures of them.
I'm very happy to have gone to these events
about computer science,
because it shows I really like this.
I love to row.
It's my favorite sport.
This is candy from México.
When I grow up, I want to be an anthropologist,
and study the culture and the religions of Mexico.
I also like to take pictures.
[upbeat music]
Bye.
- How pretty!
- Today we are at the Museum of Moving Image,
and it'll be the first time we have
all the elements together, the Spheros,
the animation, the music, and the dancers,
presented all in the theater.
I am very nervous,
because I feel something is going to go wrong
o that maybe the tutus will turn off,
or the Spheros won't work.
Anything could go wrong and I'm very scared.
Turn it on when the music starts.
So, turn it on when you hear the music.
When the world drops down, they start dancing.
Okay? - Okay.
- Ready? - Yes.
- Sheira, can you play the music?
- Yes.
[electronic music]
♪ ♪
- Yes, one...
♪ ♪
Uh, your skirt didn't turn on either?
- Mine did. - Oh.
- Did yours turn on?
- No, it just came on just now.
- Okay.
- We're going to try again.
- Okay. - Ready?
- Uh-huh. - It wasn't perfect.
One of the skirts wouldn't light up.
The rest were okay,
but one Sphero didn't coordinate with the dance moves
and it went all over the place. It was a disaster.
- Where do I have to push?
- [laughs] - I can add more tape,
but it won't do anything.
- But not all of it lights up.
No.
[both laugh with frustration]
- We have to fix the programming of the Spheros
and fix the tutus, and it's... very difficult
because the program on the tutus is not working.
No matter what, they won't light up.
We're getting close and don't know what to do.
I am very scared
because I don't think the tutus will work.
- Oh, no! The... Did you turn it off?
Did you turn it off?
- Uh...
- We decided to add headbands
at the last minute,
and decided to make them
the same color as the skirts,
but we still haven't programmed those,
and the show is tomorrow.
Besides that, we want the headbands
to have flowers
and a lace matching the color.
We have to get all that done by tomorrow,
including all the coding.
- This one lights.
This one also lights.
But the only problem
on this one is... - The only problem?
- Sheira, the only problem?
- We still have to... - The show is tomorrow.
- Somebody can help me.
What do you guys need to do?
- We already finished the skirts.
- We're finished. We're waiting for you guys.
- Okay, but...
- Hi, girls. all: Hi, Andrea.
- How did it go with the dancers yesterday?
- We're only missing some details,
like the headbands,
and I just need to change the battery on this one.
- How do you know it's just the battery?
- Because it worked before and the battery just died.
- Remember that happened to us too.
- And you fixed it, right?
- Okay. - Yes, but it took awhile.
- Okay, then change the battery.
Let's see if it works.
One of these that...that... What's wrong with these?
- Okay. This one needs to be...
- Welded again.
- Yes, and we need a battery on this one.
- We only have two Spheros. - Okay.
- So we think we can fix two of them.
- I thinks so, if we all help her,
because they're only two,
and that's... It's easy, right? - Yes.
- It's like one... It's just one battery.
- Eh...
And that'll be it.
I think it can take us a few minutes.
Maybe not such short minutes,
but a few minutes, and we can fix it,
if we all contribute.
[upbeat music]
- Today is the big day to present
the digital dance in front of everyone,
our family and friends.
I feel very nervous
because anything could go wrong,
and I don't know what to expect.
My name Warrington Hudlin,
and I welcome you all to this amazing, amazing place.
Tell us about your project.
- Basically, we had to create a digital dance,
which is a task given to us by our teacher Andrea.
And basically it's just a dance that involves technology
so we use like Spheros. We also use Arduinos,
and other stuff like that.
- Thank you. We hope you enjoy...
all: ...the show! [laughter]
[applause]
[electronic music]
♪ ♪
♪
♪
[cheers and applause]
[unintelligible conversations and laughs]
[cheers and applause continue]
- It's been amazing and beautiful.
I never expected to see everything that I saw.
I'm very proud of everybody
because they have worked very well.
- Did you like it?
- [inaudible]
- That was good.
- Uh, the girls are super proud.
I'm also very proud of them.
the audience was very happy,
because they saw the different elements of technology
and how a simple dance
can become something spectacular
with a little bit of technology.
- I feel better
because I know everything... everything is done.
I'm more relaxed.
- I'm very happy that we were able to make this dance
in just one week.
- I feel relaxed. I'm not stressed out anymore.
[laughing] I don't feel all crazy.
- I feel excited and it's over,
and I'm happy that everything turned out good.
- Yes. - Well done, girls.
- Thank you.
- I think we can all do something with science
or computer science
because we're only 15 or 16 years old
and we're doing things like coding,
computer programs and animations.
[upbeat music] [laughs]
- We did it.
♪ ♪
[rooster crowing]
- We're going to GrowHaus to see their chicken coop
and start our plans to rebuild it.
[clucking] - [laughs]
- We want to deliver fresh eggs to the community.
all: Ooh!
- NASA is all about outer space.
I get to learn many things that I enjoy.
- Just like astronauts have water bags,
we want to make a project
to protect and seal water bottles.
all: One, two, three!
Ooh!
- Major funding for "SciGirls" is provided by
The National Science Foundation,
supporting education and research across all fields
of science and engineering.
The National Science Foundation,
where discoveries begin.
Additional funding is provided by
Northrop Grumman Foundation,
supporting innovative STEM education experiences
for students and educators.
PPG Foundation aims to bring color and brightness
to communities around the world.
[upbeat music]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- The SciGirls website has more videos,
games and role model stories
at PBSKids.org
The SciGirls website has more videos,
games and role model stories at PBSKids.org
♪ ♪
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