Episode Hacks/Tech:
Ava’s video game
Ava’s secret camera
Rebelle’s D&D game
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Rebelle leads her fiends through an epic (and infuriating!) RPG campaign. Check out girlsgutsglory for inspiration on setting up your own group with your friends! There are soooo many TTRPGs to choose from! Try the classic Dungeons & Dragons, or get started with a free version of Quest or explore a world where Magical Kitties Save The Day!
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Since TTRPGs aren’t Ava’s thing, she decides to create a video game called “Escape From Lady Boredom’s Dungeon” inspired by her oppressive circumstances. Want to make your own video game? Tutorials from code.org and Minecraft or Unity will have you blasting pixels in no time!

Ava uses a tiny secret camera to capture inspiration from her school for use in her video games. She turns the world around her into backgrounds and villains. What will you create?

Episode Hacks/Tech:
FART gun
Trolling Trolls
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Le FART gun. We thought this was a work of pure fiction until we discovered that someone had actually made one. Hilarious and Genius. I will take 10.
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Trolls invade Rebelle’s fashion blog, but her friends are at the ready to support her. She’s smart enough to know that suffering in silence is never the answer. Always open up to someone you trust if you’re being bullied online or IRL. People who have nothing better to do than attempt a take down of your glorious self do not deserve your energy.
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Buuuut, if you do feel the need to respond – hiding behind an IP Proxy and sending pictures of noodles and naked mole rats… total power move! Just be careful not to become the trolls you fight.

Episode Hacks/Tech:
A secret code
Floor speaker
RF sniffer device
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Serving bacon for dinner? Isn’t that a breakfast food? Turns out, no bacon for dinner at all, it was just a secret code Ava used on Rebelle to let her know that she was being followed. Now I’m hungry.
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Ava’s clever code word translation program is a great example of what you can do with Python. In this case, we made a very basic program that reads user input “Serving bacon for dinner” and compares against a dictionary of phrases. If it has a match, it returns the coded message… “I’m being followed”. Try it out!
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The girls have hot wired the PA system to an old speaker in their clubhouse to make sure they don’t miss any important announcements. It’s old-school, but it works!

Hein takes matters into her own hands when she decides to search the school for the girls. Her RF “sniffer” is a device that detects radio frequencies, like the ones emitting from your Wi-Fi router, or your cell phone. As Hein closes in, Tina comes up with a plan to save the club house – shut everything down, except one cell phone that Tina will use to lead Hein away from the club house. By switching her phone in and out of airplane mode Tina leaves a trail of breadcrumbs for Hein to follow… but can she stay ahead?

Episode Hacks/Tech:
Synth pad
Flight Simulator
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Most people use synth pads for music, but Ava has decided to use it to hide her identity by programming it with her friend’s voice saying generic responses and feeding it into her mic input. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of places on the internet where “girls don’t belong”. Ava still wants to play video games online, but she’s too tired to fight the trolls today. She’ll smash the patriarchy another time.

Frances reveals that Ava was coding a flight simulator for Tina, which is why she was squatting in the closet. IRL there are a zillion open-source Python projects you can jump into and change for your own exciting (or nefarious) purposes. Check out this list from freeCodeCamp for ideas, or try adding a level to the aforementioned Flight Simulator if you’re feeling really, really ambitious!

Text to speech python program

“Evacuate the School! Technology is AMAZING!”. Yes everyone, listen to Mrs. Hein…or at least…what the girls had her say in their text to speech Python program where they’re able to make their headmistress say anything. With practice, you can too…but maybe make sure the voice you are featuring is open to being featured 😉

Episode Hacks/Tech:
Cat bell security system with QR codes
Sew-able LED lights
The Final Prank!
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Wait! The girls have their own QR codes? You can too! Psssst, if you scan the girls’ you’ll get a fun surprise!
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Their cat bell security system is…chef’s kiss!

Each of the girls give a presentation on something she’s passionate about. Frances talks about how narrative science fiction inspires real-world technology. Rebelle talks about creating a simple circuit which is the first building block to rocking a light-up dress!

Tina talks about the basics of space flight (because she sleeps, eats, and breathes her goal to become an astronaut). And Ava talks about her favourite video game design software. (Because it should be partially educational right?)
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The final prank! Where did they get enough chicken gas to fill all those balloons? We don’t want to know… balloon popping courtesy of servos and pointy pins. A perfect way to evacuate the school and cause chaos topped off with some clever banners, smoke, glitter, and voila! A hilarious, but harmless prank.