- All right everybody, welcome back.
In the Southbridge area of Wilmington, Delaware,
there's only 60% of teens have a high school diploma.
My next guest has defied the odds.
At just 16 years old, she's become known as the
STEM queen, making an impact on the way students
see science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
with her Wilmington Urban STEM Initiative
and after meeting her a few months ago
at the Disney Dreamer's Academy,
I couldn't wait to invite her to the show.
Please welcome my friend, Jacqueline Means
Hey Jacqueline, great to see you again.
- Great to see you again!
- Welcome to the show.
So you do workshops for young girls in your community.
Tell us about that.
- Yeah, so I host the girl's empowerment STEM events
through the initiative I founded two years ago.
Through them, I've been able to positively impact
over 350 young girls and we make experiments
from slime to lava lamps and I lead them
in these hands-on experiments to show them that
STEM is fun because a disproportionately low number
of young women are involved in STEM.
So I've done everything in my power to bring STEM
to young girls in Southbridge because it has
unfortunately been called Murder Town USA
and I know that the people in South Bridge are better
than that negative stigma.
We're greater than that, we're stronger than that.
So I'm just doing this to make it
a better place. - Wow.
(clapping)
So Jacqueline, you brought us some fun science experiments.
Why don't you tell us what you have here?
- Alrighty, so first, we're gonna make something called
dry ice, ice cream.
- OK.
- OK, so for our first ingredient,
I've got some heavy cream.
I'm gonna pour this on in.
Now you get to pour this in.
You have to really shake it in
'cause I want this to taste good, OK?
So shake it in. - I gotta shake it in?
- Yeah, shake it in, all over.
See, it's condensed milk.
Good, all right, that looks awesome.
So, I'm gonna pour in the rest of these boring ingredients
while you get to do the fun part and crush up
all this dry ice, OK?
- [Steve] Do I need these gloves?
- Put these gloves on, all right?
There you go.
- Dry ice.
- Yeah, go ahead and protect your eyes with those goggles.
- All right, I used to work at a factory.
- Oh OK, so you know.
So you already know, all right.
- I can't mess my eyes up.
My eyes or these teeth, that's all I got.
(audience clapping) - Nice.
And really, mm-hm.
All right, that looks great.
So we're gonna go ahead--
(banging) - I gotta get it down
to a powder.
This my show!
(audience laughing)
- This is my experiment, OK?
All right.
All right, so now you're gonna hold that up
and you're gonna shake it in really slowly.
Yup, real slow, yep.
- Well, I done busted the bottom, so--
- Oh OK.
Yup, just like that.
- Oh, they'd have had this when I was little,
Lord have mercy.
(laughing)
- And just like that, we have made dry ice, ice cream.
(audience cheering and clapping)
Yes, all right.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and take some out.
Y'all get a good look at that.
All right, now we've got some really good looking
toppings over here.
So I'm gonna go ahead and add some chocolate syrup.
Got some gummy bears.
- Uh uh.
- Oh yeah, oh yeah!
It's not ice cream without toppings, Mr Steve.
And just like that, I've got
delicious dry ice ice cream.
- Man, I bet you do babe.
Let me--
(clapping)
- Go ahead and put some in there.
- Make my own 'cause you-- - Oh yeah!
You got your pecans right here,
pecans. - Yeah, that's what
I'm gon' do, you can get up here.
I don't know what you gon' put.
(audience laughing)
Yeah.
- It looks delicious.
What do ya think?
It's kinda good, right?
It's kinda good.
(cheering)
Mr. Steve, we have another experiment, come on now.
Come on!
OK, so, I'm gonna go ahead and put on my gloves
because our first ingredient is called hydrogen peroxide.
Now I'm sure you guys have that regular old
three percent in ya households but this is 35%,
so it is highly corrosive.
Mr. Steve, you don't need those gloves.
- You got gloves on.
- I have gloves 'cause I'm the STEM queen.
I'm the professional.
- OK, well I might not need em but--
can't none of that get on me, not at 35%.
(laughing)
- Go ahead and put on my goggles here.
So our first ingredient, like I said, hydrogen peroxide.
Pour that into my graduated cylinder.
I've got some dish soap here, pour that in on the side.
A little food dye as well.
Don't worry Mr. Steve, you'll get your part, OK?
I know you're gettin' antsy.
Now this is the catalyst.
That means this is what makes it go boom,
go pop, go shabang, all right?
So you get to pour this in.
- Oh, in where?
- You're gonna pour it right into this top, all right?
- And it's gonna go boom, shabang?
- It's gonna go boom, shabang, pop, all right?
All right and we're gonna count down all right?
Audience, can you help me?
- [Audience] Yes.
- All right ready?
Three, two, one!
Goa ahead and pour it in.
(audience cheering) (laughing)
- That's pretty good.
Now Jacqueline, we think what you're doing is amazing
and we wanna help you to continue 'cause we know
your parents have been pitching in to help you
with the kids in the neighborhood
and we think that's great for you to encourage
everybody in your community.
So we reached out to our friends at Swagbucks,
the web's leading free gift card site
where you get paid just for sharing your opinion.
They love all the work that you're doing
with the Wilmington Urban Stem Initiative
and they wanna help you out.
So Swagbucks is giving you a check for $5,000.
(audience cheering)
- Oh my God!
- That's yours. - Oh my God!
- Congratulations.
- Thank you so much! - I wanna thank Jacqueline.
- Thank you so much!
- For showing us these experiments.
Special thanks to my friends over at Swagbucks
for the generous donation.
We'll be right back everybody.
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