These girls are smashing stereotypes with their huge flame-throwing robots

A group of girls gather around the schoolyard to witness a smash-up battle of epic proportions on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

The girls, along with a couple of boys, laugh, gasp, and cheer on their creations. A filing cabinet has already been smashed to smithereens, and now the combatants seem intent on pulverising each other with their mighty metallic weapons.

It’s an absolute thrill to see these robots come to life. In the face of outdated stereotypes about what girls and boys can accomplish, the girls at the Brentwood School in Essex have dedicated countless hours to building these fighting machines Read more…

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