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on International women's day we're

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celebrating some of the amazing women

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who've inspired Us by achieving

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greatness lifting up others and being

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the Catalyst for change these are their

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stories

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an ancient South Indian martial art

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the art of Clary is practiced with the

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use of one's bare hands sticks

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and heavy swords and shields

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everybody

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s to be dirty our fingers to be dirty we

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are together and we are fixing cars

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around the world

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make sure you do your you have your

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homework done I need to see the papers

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all right then good luck my name is

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Sandra aguerbo I'm the first female

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mechanic in Nigeria and the founder of

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the lady mechanic initiative I've been a

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mechanic for 32 years and I've been

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running my own garage for 22 years now

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so that is the way it works the leading

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mechanic initiative is working with the

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vulnerable group

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they has commercial sex workers the

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school dropouts married women wants to

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acquire skill they are like there's no

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more hope in my life I said to them you

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know what you have got a lot of hope I'm

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going to help you build that hope I mean

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I here she has five children and she's a

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mechanic amazing

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because they are vulnerables they don't

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have money they are from poor background

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so they don't pay to learn and we do all

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this from the founders funders pay their

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stipends pay for their lecture overall

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and my training is just free of charge

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you want to be able to help other women

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as well now we've been able to empower

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graduated by thousand female mechanics

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in Nigeria in five states

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I mean the first female mechanic in

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Nigeria is not a Bed of Roses may have

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been there from generation to generation

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fixing cars when I came in it was like

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excuse me are you okay or you need to

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see a doctor but no I knew what I was

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doing but for me to become the first

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female mechanic in Nigeria I had to work

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five times harder than the way the men

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would work

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prove myself many people they don't know

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me by my name is Lady mechanic

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everywhere I go now a lot of guests

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wants to come to Nigeria to learn how to

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discuss

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it's the best job in the world for any

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woman I say

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80 years of age

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I bench press

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110 pounds

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I started training at age 71.

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I was named the oldest female

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competitive bodybuilder at the Guinness

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Book of World Records

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my sister and I started exercising

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together

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I had never done any type of exercising

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before

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she died she said promise me you will

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follow my dream and try to get in the

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Guinness Book of World Records

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so that's what I did

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I have been in six or seven competitions

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I win but some I come out second and

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third and I'm pleased with that

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I'm up every morning at 2 30. after I

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have my devotions I walk and I run

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approximately 10 miles I'm at the gym at

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7 30 and I have a group of ladies that I

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train damn

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why I train all ages one of the youngest

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I think she's about 20 years of age and

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the rest go from 40 all the way up to

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80.

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for the very first time they are really

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really surprised

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they said I didn't think this exercise

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would be this tough but if you can do it

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we are going to do it too

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I really don't feel as though I'm 80

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years of age but I am

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I want to keep training until

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my day is done

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chemistry explains literally everything

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that is happening around you the dry ice

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is taking the thermal energy from the

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water and unfortunately I

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instantaneously get judged on my

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appearance that is very frustrating for

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me so I'm gonna pick up my hot water I'm

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gonna come over here and I'm going to

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throw it right into my bucket okay it

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means I have to work harder but at the

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end it is so so incredibly worth it and

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one

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my name is Dr Kate beberdorf and I'm a

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lecturer at the University of Texas at

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Austin

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I'm trying to break the stigma of what a

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stereotypical scientist looks like so my

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thing is I am not wearing a bow tie I'm

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not wearing suspenders I don't have some

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frumpy cardigan on I'm just some regular

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girl who likes to play with fire and I

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also really like designer shoes and

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that's okay as the alginate hits the

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calcium chloride the alginate would

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prefer to be with the two plus charge

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calcium instead of the one plus charge

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sodium and what happens

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is we Farm gummy worms doesn't matter

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what you look like any human can be a

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scientist

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I definitely try to use energy and

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excitement I love this one I do my best

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to try to reach students that might be

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intimidated by science I use anything

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that will make the 483 students sit up

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straight and actually listen to the

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words coming out of your mouth

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as soon as I've exploded something in

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their face I have their attention for

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just 60 seconds and I can do whatever I

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can to shove that knowledge right into

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their brains

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okay so what we're going to do today is

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doing some chemistry we're gonna do

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three different Hands-On experiments I

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find chemistry to be an incredibly

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challenging topic pour your water pour

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your water beautiful now keep watching

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keep watching I'm so sick of the

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stereotypical female scientists and we

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can do things other than biology by the

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way chemistry physics engineering we can

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do it look at what you made the fact

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that I've been able to master it but

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then use science to start the

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conversation but then physically stand

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there and break that image it's the most

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rewarding thing I could ever do ever

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right after school I just like try to

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like run to the gym so I can climb

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it's a dangerous sport but the only

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thing that I'm afraid of is not being

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able to get to the topic

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with climbing I don't think that it

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really matters with how big you are if

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you're a smaller you can hold on longer

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and your hands might be smaller so it

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can fit more fingers on hold

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I started climbing in Central Park when

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I was six years old now I don't think I

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can like live without it

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when you're close to the top of the

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climb you're trying to do you have

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forums usually feel like they're going

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to explode and they're gonna like burst

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open and you feel like you have to let

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go but with climbing you just can't let

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go

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I think that climbing is it's obviously

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a sport but it's also like a dance you

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sort of have to be able to like flow up

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the wall and come up with their own

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technique to get to the topic

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I think people are shocked if I do

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something that they can't do is

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something because I'm still really young

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and I'm a girl so like doing something

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that even if a guy can't do is pretty

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special

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