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Students: This is Mr. Fitch's class from Avon High School, and Channel One News starts right now.

Tom: Thanks to Avon High School for showing up and kicking us off. Now let’s get to your headlines. Another controversy is hitting the public school system in Detroit,Michigan. First it was teachers calling in sick to protest run-down schools. Now more than a dozen current and former principals are facing charges that they stole from their schools.

The public schools ofDetroit are so bad that kids attend class in moldy, rodent-infested buildings, even wearing coats because of no heat. Now some principals are in trouble. According to court documents,13 current and former principals took part in a long-running scheme that involved the school vendor, Allstate Sales, owned by 74-year-old Norman Shy.Officials say he submitted fake bills for school supplies.

Woman: The principals would approve those invoices, and then he would provide some, but not all, of the goods that he promised to sell.

Tom: In exchange, prosecutors say, the principals got cash, checks and prepaid gift cards totaling just under a million dollars. The charges come as Michigan's largest school district struggles with a debt of more than $500 million. A lawyer for one of the principals said,"It's important to remember these are only allegations, and all the accused are to be presumed innocent."

North Carolina faces growing backlash over a new law blocking protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Protestors spilled into the streets yesterday, and more than 80 business leaders, from Facebook to Apple, have called for a repeal of the law.

The law passed last week prohibits local governments from creating their own laws to protect the gay and transgender community. It also requires transgender people to only use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the gender on their birth certificate. The state's top lawyer and Democratic candidate for governor, Roy Cooper, refused to defend it.

Roy Cooper: Not only is this new law a national embarrassment, it will set North Carolina's economy back.

Tom: But the Republican governor, who signed the law and is running for reelection, responded.

GovernorPat McCrory: He can't select which laws he will defend.

Tom: Several activist groups filed suit against the state on Monday, saying the law "violates the most basic guarantees of equal treatment."

Okay, we know summer is comingand the temperature is rising, and that is the good news.The bad news:the price of ice cream is set to skyrocket this summer. That is because there is a shortage of vanilla.

You might take this vanilla scoop for granted, but don't. That is becausevanilla beans, the main flavor in vanilla ice cream, are in short supply. Bloomberg News says the problem stems from the African island nation of Madagascar, which is the world’s leading vanilla bean producer and saw a poor harvest this season.

The price of vanilla beans has more than tripled, and it is already the second most expensive spice in the world. Ice cream makers say vanilla is the biggest selling flavor.

All right, after the break, the story behind one of America's most famous ads that was all about girl power.

Tom: Today wraps up Women's History Month, and what better way to end it than with one of the most well-known posters on women?

Arielle: Yeah,Tom. She has got some serious guns, and she is an icon of World War II. And the women she represents still have a legacy that lives on today.

You may have seen this legendary poster, a tough image of Rosie the Riveter that almost screams “girl power.” But do you know where it came from? It all goes back to the 1940s, during World War II, when many men were drafted to fight, so women stepped in to hold down the fort.

Helen Jedele: The fellas were gone; somebody had to make these planes, or we would have lost the war, that's for sure.

Arielle: Most of these hardworking women, like Helen, were only teenagers.

Jedele: You didn't think much about the war at that time. Teenagers don't think of those things.

Arielle: Helen went to work at the Ford Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, which at its peak was turning out one new bomber, orplane, every hour. She was one of many women who changed America, not just by helping to win the warbut by setting off a huge shift in the role of women — out of the home and right into the workplace.

One of the big appeals to this tough work environment was the money. Some made $1.10 an hour, but that was enough.

Helen Lyson: That was good pay at them days.

Arielle: Born in Poland, Helen Lyson, another riveter, was so desperate for a paying job that she changed the date on her baptism certificate to make herself a year older.

Lyson: I gave my parents all my pay because they needed that money.So they were able to pay off their mortgage, and they put electricity — we didn't have electricity in that home.

Arielle: Nowover 30 women are celebrating how they served their country so long agowith a warm welcome in Washington,D.C.

Lyson: Something I did 72 years ago — I never thought they would bring it up now.

Man: You did so much for this country so long ago.

Jedele: It's breathtaking — so many people.They come up to me like they know me.

Arielle: Wearing the trademark Rosie bandanna, they visited the World War IIMemorial, still shocked that what was just another job could seem so historic today.

Lyson: I never realized until now how important we did— what we were — when we were working there. I never realized it.

Arielle: They are in their 90s now, but these Rosies can still tell you a lot about the strength of this country and inspire a new generation of powerful young women.

Arielle Hixson, Channel One News.

Tom: Thanks,Arielle.

All right,after the break: One stellar teen that has two college degrees, is advanced in martial arts, flies planesand — oh,yeah — just so happens to work for NASA. No big deal, right?

Tom: All right, now it is time to get your geek on with a story about a guy who mastered trigonometry by the age of 7. By 11he had a community college degree. And no, we are not talking about Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison. We are talking about NASA's youngest recruit.Azia Celestino met up with him.

Azia: Moshe Kai Cavalin is 18 years old. He balances school, a job and hanging with friends. And Moshe is getting his license to fly planes.

Moshe Kai Cavalin: I've always been fascinated with aviation, aerospace.Even my first word was Chinese for “airplane.”

Azia: So when the teen scored a job at NASA, it was a dream come true. Moshe works at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. There he helps create surveillance technology for planes and drones to keep aircraft safe and avoid collisions.

Moshe: It started off being exclusively for drones to avoid commercial airliners and what not.However, we want to make it more mainstream for general aviation, like the regular pilots do bring it with them in the cockpit, like a tablet, in order to avoid traffic.

Azia: But the opportunity didn't just fall out of the sky and into his lap.

Moshe: Almost everywhere I go, there's sort of a gap in age.

Azia: At 8 years old, Moshe was once the youngest college student in the country.He graduated from East Los Angeles College with a 4.0, earning a scholarship to UCLA, where he majored in math.

Do you consider yourself a genius?

Moshe: Not at all. A lot of what goes onsort of behind the scenes to sort of even getting here at NASA or, you know, UCLA, or the pilot’s license, even — it's all hard work.

Azia: And despite all of that hard work, being young wasn't always easy.

Moshe: I experienced a lot of similarities in bullying, I guess, academically. A lot of people saw my age as sort of a boundary, an obstacle, saying, “Oh, you know, he's so young; how can he do anything?”

Azia: It came into question when he first applied to NASA.

Moshe: When I applied, I got no responses. Apparently, it was because I was too young; at the time I was 15.

Azia: It took three tries before he got the job at age 17.

Moshe: Every sort of obstacle or failure that I encountered, there was just a hidden blessing behind it, sort of how things worked out for the better.

Azia: He is now taking classes toward his master's degree, and one day Moshe hopes to start his own cyber security business.His advice for other young people?

Moshe: Persevering and working hard through these bullying moments is really important to see, because better things will come,and sort of I'm living proof of that. Don't be afraid to try different things and fail.

Azia: Azia Celestino, Channel One News.

Tom: Pretty impressive.So do you guys think you are too young to get involved with NASA? Well, think again — it has a program designed specifically for students.And you can find out all the details over at ChannelOne.com.

All right, guys, that is gonna do it for us today.Enjoy the rest of your day, and we will see you right back here tomorrow.

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