What all can you collect from your home and yard? What can you create from it? Take a look at the Rube Goldberg Machine website for inspiration (as well as lesson plans and videos)! Have there been times when you've been judged because of your gender identity?Īctivity: Lacey uses what she can find at her home to fix and invent.

There are people Lacey encounters who don't believe she can be such a good mechanic because she's a girl.

Where do you see room for invention in your life? What doesn't currently exist that you think should?.

Who are people in your life who you may or may not currently rely on who you could talk to about your dreams and ambitions? What are areas where you could help your friends? In the end, Lacey is only able to succeed because she relies on her friends for help.If you could do the same with your life-do anything you wanted regardless of obstacles-what would you choose? At the end of the series, Lacey decides not to take the option given to her but to forge a new path.What are some apps, websites, social media platforms, and other tech-related areas where you think you can do good for other people? But all of this good fortune can't distract her from the fact that Jinx doesn't act like other bakus-he doesn't act like a machine at all-and she's not the only one who's noticing.Ĭategories: action-adventure, STEM, feminism, multicultural Lacey is admitted into her dream school, she's chosen for an elite battle bot team within the school, and she even catches the eye of a cute older boy. She names him Jinx, and just like that, everything changes.

Not long after, however, Lacey comes across what she thinks is a heap of high-tech but irreparable machinery-only to fix it up and realize it's a level three baku, a sleek black cat. Thoroughly disheartened, Lacey accepts that she'll have to stay at her current non-STEM school and purchase a level one baku, which is all she and her mom can afford. Because of this, she just knows she'll be accepted into the school of her dreams, a feeder school into the Moncha system. She's also tied to be the top student in her class.

Lacey is already somewhat of a genius when it comes to bakus, fixing them for her family and friends who are old enough to purchase one. Moncha became famous after introducing bakus-replacement smart devices that can do everything an iPhone can but take the form of an animal. Synopsis: Lacey Chu has always dreamed of working for Moncha Corp., a tech company that has revolutionized people's lives-and that Lacey's father, who disappeared when she was young, worked for. Title(s): Jinxedand Unleashed, a series by Amy McCulloch

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