SMART GIRLS AT THE PARTY
I fell in love with this online series from the moment I saw Amy Poehler's trailer. That coupled with quotes like this ( from a 2006 Bust magazine interview re: her thoughts on the Pussycat Dolls), have made Amy a permanent fixture on my Girl Crush List:
Great, go for it, do your own thing ... Sit on cakes. Do whatever the f--k you want. It's just that I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled ... More than it being the Pussycat Dolls thing? It's just distracting from what is real power.
Watch "Smart Girls At The Party" and it'll take you a few minutes to figure out if it's all a joke or dead serious. It's actually somewhere in between. Amy Poehler's podcast profiles young women who are excelling at school in science, writing or other subjects.
The tagline: Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles celebrate girls who are changing the world by being themselves.
In the following episode, Poehler interviews 12-year-old Rachel, an exceptional student that builds robots. She shows Poehler and cast how normal kids can become engineers, starting with Legos, and moving their way up to functional robots.
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