The Pinkalicious and Peterific podcast is back with brand new Pinkatastic episodes.

Sing and dance along with Pinkalicious, Peter, and their friends as they go on musical adventures around Pinkville.

Starting February 13th, you can listen to the new season of the Pinkalicious and Peterific podcast on PBSKids.org

or wherever you listen to podcasts.

It's time to let your mind wander into a world of numbers and inventions and flight.

We're going to hear the story of Ada Lovelace, a woman who saw the patterns and poetry in everything around her.

Have you ever felt different or that the way your brain worked was different? Like you were thinking something no one else in the whole world was thinking. That's how Ada Lovelace felt all the time.

Her mind worked the way it worked.

Ada wrote what many people consider the first ever computer program,

a hundred years before the first computer was even built.

But before that, she was a 12-year-old girl who dreamt of flying.

Let's go find her, in her bedroom, in a big grey stone house in the English countryside.

It's the 1820s and Ada is at her window, watching the birds.

Ada thinks about joining them in their loops through the sky, swooping, soaring, and sailing.

She starts to think, what would it take for me to be able to fly with the birds?

And how can I make it real?

She piles her long curling hair on top of her head in loops and whirls,

slips into a simple blue gown and then sets out into the garden,

through the misty morning to watch the birds more closely. The air is filled with the smell of English roses, opening their petals to the sun.

She sees the ways the birds move, the size and shape of their wings, the curve of their bodies.

And little by little, her wonderful brain works out the science, the mathematical calculations of how they fly.

There, in the garden, she sketches, scribbling down idea after idea.

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