Marita Cheng — the girl who built robots, and helped other girls build them too
Fierce Girls
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4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
When Marita was little, she thought robots could change the world, or at least do the dishes for her! But not many other girls thought the same. So, Marita started Robogals, a club to show girls they could work in robotics when they grew up. It started a global revolution.
Written and narrated by 11-year-old Yashica Chauhan.
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| 0:00.0 | ABC Listen. |
| 0:02.0 | Yes. |
| 0:05.0 | Girl Power. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a story about a girl who builds robots and helped other girls build them too. |
| 0:14.8 | Beretta Chang. |
| 0:16.5 | Written and read by me, 11 year old Yishika Johan. |
| 0:27.0 | The room has a hectic atmosphere. All the students are talking to their friends or scrolling on their phones. Then suddenly the lecture hall goes silent. Then, |
| 0:35.0 | the lecture hall goes silent. The mechatronics professor enters a room |
| 0:40.0 | ready to start the first lecture of the year. |
| 0:44.0 | Marita's mom had wanted her to be a doctor, |
| 0:47.0 | but she's always been more interested in engineering, electronics, |
| 0:52.0 | and building things, especially robots. |
| 0:55.0 | As she sits in the lecture theatre, listening to a professor saying good morning, |
| 1:01.0 | she remembers an argument she had with a mom even before she was old enough to think about her career choice. |
| 1:09.0 | Marita was 12 and she made the mistake of complaining about cleaning the dishes. |
| 1:17.0 | My hands are sore, Mom, and the water is too hot. |
| 1:21.0 | Her mom had snapped back at her. 11 year olds in China can cook a whole meal for their |
| 1:26.0 | family and look at you complaining after washing a few dishes. You're 12, you can do it yourself. |
| 1:35.0 | Marita had wanted to argue, but before she could say anything, her mom had raised her finger, |
| 1:42.0 | which she knew meant she should be silent. |
| 1:45.6 | Fine, Maria had said under her breath, I just wish I could design a robot to do my chores for me. |
| 1:58.0 | She kept thinking about robots all through school. |
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