How awesome is this? Allie Weber, a Sioux Falls eighth-grader and already an accomplished inventor (she built a robot when she was six), is one of the young hosts of the upcoming season of Mythbusters Jr. with Adam Savage on the Science Channel. On the show, Weber and five other teens work in teams on projects involving duct tape, explosives, and more. She spent the summer filming the episodes in California.
“I feel like when people see the finished products of innovation or scientific accomplishments, they don’t see the process behind it and all the trial and error that went into it,” Weber said. “When they try to do something like that themselves, they get discouraged easily. But that isn’t the case, and not everything is black and white—you really need to struggle through those problems to come up with an accomplishment.”
The show will air on the Science Channel on Jan. 2.
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