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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I've never told you a protection of iHeart radio, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Women Around the World. We

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Speaker 1: are back for more amazing women and ladies doing some

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Speaker 1: big things. And uh Anie, though, before we start, I

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Speaker 1: do have to ask you a question, Okay, and I

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Speaker 1: think I talked about this before. Yes, did you go

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Speaker 1: beyond just your local science fair? Did you, at any

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Speaker 1: point go into bigger competitions? I did? Okay, we didn't

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Speaker 1: talk about this part, and tell me about that. I did.

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Speaker 1: I was more I went to I know I've discussed

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Speaker 1: my spelling be experience in my geography be experience. I

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Speaker 1: did go and because I loved science fair. However, I

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Speaker 1: think I have discussed this before. I was sort of

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Speaker 1: notorious for I don't want to say thinking too big,

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Speaker 1: because that's what you should do, right, But I would

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Speaker 1: try to do these things that were really difficult to

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Speaker 1: pull off, and I would try to do two of them.

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Speaker 1: So I always came with like two projects, and both

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Speaker 1: of them were overly complicated in nature, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of times I got disqualified for that, and I kept

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Speaker 1: doing it anyway because I would just be like, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure if this idea will work, well, maybe this

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Speaker 1: one will. And I could never decide on which idea

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Speaker 1: I'd always be like, Okay, this one, like might not

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Speaker 1: always fail every time the other one is the one

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Speaker 1: it makes me sad too, especially because there was this

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Speaker 1: one teacher who was very she's had a very sarcastic nature,

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Speaker 1: and I could tell she was like, and he has

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Speaker 1: with creative solutions. All that to say this is a

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Speaker 1: long winded answer. I did venture out into some like

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Speaker 1: So but anyway, she was featured on that because she

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Speaker 1: Mustafa is a twenty three year old Egyptian from the

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Speaker 1: village in the Damietta government. With the encouragement from her mother,

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Speaker 1: Mustafa decided to attend a STEM school in Cairo, the

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Speaker 1: that focuses on teaching women to become leaders of the science, technology,

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