Most words have more than one meaning. Sometimes, though, that word becomes known more for its negative meaning than its good. Audacious is one of those words. When you hear audacious what first comes to mind? Is it someone who's reckless, disregards rules? Or is it someone who takes bold risks and is daring? As we prepared to introduce little ones to November's featured lady there was only one word that really described her: audacious, as in bold and daring. It's a perfect fit for this month's totally fearless female---Mae Jemison. Let's reclaim that word, shall we?

When we first created GIRLS CAN! CRATE we wanted our crates to be such that ANY little girl that picked up our crate could relate to something about our featured lady. Perhaps the field she was in resonated with the little girl, or the character trait she embodied, or maybe the lady looked like the little girl, or maybe she was a fascinating woman. Something, anything...that's what we wanted. So when it came time to plan out our year and think about who we'd like to feature in February and for Black History Month we kept coming back to Madam C.J. Walker, entrepreneur and self-made millionaire. But, it wasn't for the reason you'd probably expect...

"Our June box celebrated the life and work of "Shark Lady" Dr. Eugenie Clark...She was also a pioneer in using scuba in marine biology. So it was only natural, then that we would reach out to marine biologist, Jillian Morris, founder of Sharks4Kids to talk sharks, scuba, and empowering girls."

This month we’re celebrating The Adventurous Ichthyologist, Eugenie Clark, and diving into the world of sharks! We are super pumped about this crate because we’re definitely geeked over all things shark related. As we were thinking about this month and what we wanted to share we knew we had to introduce you to one amazing world changer who is working to conserve sharks and help the environment. And she’s only 10!