Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment.
Book #1:
This book is a fictional novel where
it narrates the life of an incredibly genius girl named Maxine and how she wants
to change the world. The girl is an orphan, with no idea about her past, nor a
place to live. She lives with a bunch of other homeless people on top of a
barn. She goes to a university in New York, where she managed to get a full
tuition. She plays chess with one of the teachers there. His name is Mr.
Weinstock. Suddenly, she finds out that an evil corporation is trying to use
her to advanced knowledge for their own purposes. This corporation is referred
to as "The Corp". Another association wants to protect her and use
her intelligence for the world's benefit. This one is called the Change Makers
Institution, also known as the CMI. Max is told this by Mr. Weinstock, who
appears to also be in the CMI. Max decides on joining the CMI, as she wants to
do good in the world. She then meets two specially trained soldiers who work
for the CMI, Isabl and Charl.
They fly Max over to Jerusalem,
where she meets up with a bunch of other kids who are around her age. Turns out
that those children are also geniuses who the CMI have gathered. They all have
to take a quiz to see who is the most intelligent, and who would be the leader
of the group of children. Max decides not to answer any of the questions as she
sees all the questions as unimportant and irrelevant to being a real Change
Maker. The other people who work at the CMI realize this, and they do another,
more relevant test. Max does this one again, but she only answers one question
and turns in her quiz.
When asked why, she says that all the other questions
could be answered with just that question. The CMI controversially decides to
make Max the leader of the group, even though she had terrible scores on the
quiz due to her not answering many questions. And with that, the CMI decided to
start its first mission. There was a city in Africa that never received any
power and the CMI wanted to change that. They get flown into the city and
decide on using solar panels to power it. They place the first solar panel, and
after a lot of work, it gives power to a house.
The CMI celebrates, but they must do
it with every house in the city. So they install another solar panel, but it
doesn't work. They decide to postpone the fixing to the next day due to it
being late. When they wake up, they see the solar panels have been shattered.
The locals say it was a corrupt leader of the city and his goons. The CMI knows
that fixing the solar panels would be expensive, and they simply couldn't
afford to keep repairing the panels if they would just get broken again. The
band of criminals show up and say that the CMI must leave the town or else thy
would attack them. The CMI considered leaving, but in the end stayed. The band
of criminals attacked, but the CMI defended themselves. After thinking for a
solution for a while, the band of criminals returned, but with a new leader.
Apparently, the old leader was
knocked down from power, but a new, even more corrupt leader took his place.
The band of criminals, once again, threatened to attack the CMI if they did not
leave. Now, everyone was considering leaving more than ever. However, Max had
an idea. The old leader of the city now had a new job. He would take the phones
from anyone who entered or left the city. That meant he had a bunch of phones,
but no way to charge them. The CMI struck a deal with him. He would let a
shipment of parts and panels come through and fight against the new leader, and
he would get power to charge his cellphones. He hated the new leader, so he
would already be willing to fight him. The parts come, and the CMI decides to invent
something. A windmill with solar panels attached to the blades, so they would
get extra power.
The invention worked and they got power. Then they fought the
band of criminals with the old leader's army. They won the battle, but a
mysterious Mr. Zimm appeared in a helicopter, and told Max that if she were to
come with him, he would tell her about her parents and who she was. Max
politely declined. After Mr. Zimm leaves, they install the rest of the windmill
solar panel hybrids. They then split up and each go back to their homes. The
benefactor buys an apartment room for Max, as the conditions in the barn were
unsanitary. All the other people who lived in the barn also got new homes. They
meet the founder of the CMI, it is a young boy named Ben.
Book #2:
Max was bored in her apartment. She
was instructed not to leave, but she managed to fool her two protective
bodyguards and go outside. Charl and Isabl find her and order her to go back to
the apartment. Siobhan, another kid in the CMI, comes over presenting a
problem. Her city in Ireland had terribly unsanitary water and many people were
getting sick due to drinking it. They both get alerted that two members of The
Corp came to kidnap Max. They make a make-shift sound wave blaster, where it
sends noise at a certain frequency. These certain frequencies, to put it short,
would make the two Corp goons poop their trousers. Yuck. That would give them
enough time to make their escape. They waited patiently, and then the two Corp
nerds entered. They fired the sound wave, and they instantly fell to the
ground. Siobhan and Max used this time to escape.
Charl and Isabl were waiting
outside, and they drove off to their next mission. Their next mission was to
clean the water in Ireland. They went there, built a robot to clean and fix the
wells, and they were done. They had a celebration, but there they found Mr.
Zimm and a strange android named Lenard. They pulled off a plan that involved
tossing flaming alcohol around and making their escape. That stalled Mr. Zimm
and Lenard enough to leave the building and they successfully escaped. They
then begun their second mission, bringing clean water to an Indian city.
Vihaan, another one of the prodigies, helps out on this mission. He explains
the problems with the city. That all the clean water was owned by a big
business that sold it to the people. Vihaan's grandfather is one of the water
distributers in the city that give out free clean water.
However, the city is
very corrupt so the people who work for the business bribe the police officers
that protect the water distributer. When the officers are bribed, they force
the water distributers to leave. This means that less people get water, and
more people are forced to buy it from the business.
In order to stop it, the gang of prodigies
develop a cleaning solution, that will make all the dirt rise to the top so
they can scoop it off. They did that, they cleaned it, and then they gave the
water to everyone.
When suddenly, the evil business spilled waste into the
recently cleaned water, not allowing anyone to drink it. However, after a turn
of events, and a very large protest, they make another water purifier, and the
problem is solved.
By Andrés Díaz Mosquera, Step 8Yellow
