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“The Missfits” by Ellie Wen follows an all-girls robotics team based in San Francisco that takes on the male-dominated field of engineering. The documentary follows the aptly named robotics team, The Missfits, as they confront growing pains, build their robots, and compete in the FIRST robotics competition. The Missfits robotics team is made up of twenty girls from a variety of diverse backgrounds coming from different high schools all around the Bay Area. The Missfits are determined to show other girls how fun and rewarding STEM can be, one robot at a time. On their own, they are outsiders, misfits, but together, they build each other up, just like they build their robots and embrace their identities.