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When a high school girl found that the boys in her school's robotics club would not treat her as an equal, she took action: she founded a girls-only robotics club. Now ten years later, her former school, on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, fields two robotics clubs, including the award-winning Accelerators. This film, following the Accelerators through one season's competition, shows us the girls as they learn to compete with and collaborate with other- mainly male- Minnesota teams. One of our reviewers described this film as "delightful and inspiring." This film will be shown online only, and not at the Bay Theater.

The Accelerators:  Brains, Braids, and Bots

The Accelerators: Brains, Braids, and Bots. In their tenth season, the all-girls robotics team from Cass Lake strive to make it to the Minnesota State Championships for the first time in their school's history.

Quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels, known as quaggas, are re-engineering the ecosystem of the Great Lakes, and this film's use of cutting edge underwater drone photography shows us the scale of the destruction in shocking detail-- from the unnaturally clear and fish-free waters of some of the Great Lakes to the destruction of cultural resources such as a quagga-encrusted 1895 shipwreck only discovered during the filming of this movie. Because Lake Superior has not yet been as greatly affected as the Lower Great Lakes, the possible scale of quagga-caused ecosystem change here has been a little off the radar to many of us. This film will change all that for anyone who sees it. Part scientific exploration, part natural history adventure – the film's stunning photography delivers an important lesson. This film will be shown online only, and not at the Bay Theater.

All Too Clear

All Too Clear. This film's cutting-edge underwater drone photography dramatically shows the ecosystem changes wrought by the invasive quagga mussel.

Romo Lee turns in a stunning performance as Minho, a young Korean American boy who has gotten mixed up with a gang of older, troublesome friends. Minho's anger at his abusive father and his confusion and ambivalence about the petty crimes he's become involved in culminate in a robbery he sets up for his friends-- of watches his father has at his apartment. This film will be shown online only, and not at the Bay Theater.

Watches

Watches. A young Korean-American boy, expertly acted by Romo Lee, gets in way over his head with older petty thieves he thinks are his friends.

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