Heaven Fitch's incredible reversal secured her victory in this week's North Carolina High School Wrestling State Championship, making her the second girl in history to win an individual wrestling state championship! The 16-year-old Mighty Girl won the 106lb (48 kg) weight class against seven male wrestlers in the state finals. She ended the season with a 54-4 record and has become a role model to other young women in the sport, including the approximately 300 girls who participate in association

Happy Teacher Appreciation Day and a big thank you to educators everywhere! If there was a special teacher who made a difference in your life -- or a teacher who is making a difference in your child's life today -- please give him or her a shout-out below. For children's books that celebrate teachers and the value they bring to kids' lives, check out our blog post, “Honoring Educators: 20 Books About Mighty Girls & Their Teachers,” at http://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12108 If you know a Mighty

After sewing custom dolls for child surgical patients for years, 12-year-old Charlotte Gould is now using her talents to sew face masks for doctors and nurses -- and in a new video tutorial, she's showing how you can make masks for your own use and to donate to essential workers in your community! Her mask design even incorporates an internal pocket to hold an extra filter and a pipe cleaner across the top to allow the mask to better fit securely over your nose. Charlotte first became interested

Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta were graduate students at Columbia University's School of Architecture in 2010 when a devastating earthquake struck Haiti. In one of their classes, they were assigned to develop a new innovation to help with disaster relief. Many students focused on designing shelters but, after speaking to a relief worker in Haiti, the two discovered that an often-ignored need following disasters was access to light. The pair focused on designing an inflatable, waterproof, and sola

What happens when you're no longer the girl next door from The Wonder Years TV Show? In this short video from NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists series, Danica McKellar describes how math helped her discover that she is so much more than the child actress who played Winnie Cooper. Since graduating summa cum laude in Mathematics from UCLA, the former child actress turned mathematician has written many fun books for kids on math including "The Times Machine!: Learn Multiplication and Division" (http

In a shocking betrayal of American values which historians will condemn as one of the most shameful acts by an American president, Donald Trump stood on the side of dictators today. At the United Nations, the U.S. voted along with Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and 14 other autocratic nations against a United Nations resolution that named Russia as the aggressor state in the three-year long war and called on the country to remove its troops from Ukraine. The resolution on today's third anniversar