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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

In Her Own Words: Kiera Wilmot Talks About The Science Experiment That Almost Ruined Her Future

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:14 pm, May 24th, 2013

We were thrilled to report a mostly happy ending to the story that was high school student Kiera Wilmot being expelled and arrested for attempting a science experiment on school grounds. No formal charges were brought against the student and she and her sister will get a free ride to space camp soon, but to hear Wilmot tell the story in her own words brings the frightening reality of what almost happened back to life. 

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Today in Awesome

Girl Expelled For Science Experiment Has Criminal Charges Dropped, Is Now Going To Space Camp

by Jill Pantozzi | 3:58 pm, May 18th, 2013

That turned out unexpectedly well. 

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Today in Depressing

High School Student Makes the Cap Pop Off a Water Bottle With Science, Now She’s Facing Adult Felony Charges

by Susana Polo | 4:15 pm, May 1st, 2013

Kiera Wilmot is a sixteen-year-old student with good grades and a “perfect” behavior record. Or at least she was. She has been expelled from her Florida school after creating a small chemical reaction that caused no damage or harm, and additionally been arrested and charged with possession and discharge of a weapon on school grounds and discharging a destructive device. According to the Miami New Times, she will be tried as an adult.

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and let it be known

Erin DiMeglio Might Be the First Girl to Play Quarterback on a Florida Highschool Football Game

by Susana Polo | 4:14 pm, August 30th, 2012

If you’re of a certain age (*ahem* my age), there’s a good chance that when you were in elementary school, they didn’t let you outside for recess when it was raining or snowing, and instead you sat inside and watched movies. There’s also a decent chance that one of the movies you watched over and over again was a donated VHS tape of The Little Giants, featuring Becky “Icebox” O’Shea, a girl whose own uncle wouldn’t pick her for the pee-wee football team no matter how kickass she was… because she was a girl. The movie’s got a lot of stuff going on, but Becky’s plot arc is one where she struggles with being the only child of a single parent, a teen with her first crush, a tomboy who feels pressured to conform to femininity so that boys won’t overlook her as a romantic prospect, and so good at football that she scares the pants off her teammates. In other words, she was awesome.

Erin DiMeglio, though, is another level of awesome, as a high school student who may be the state of Florida’s first female quarterback to play in a regular season high school football game.

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