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Little Red Riding Bot and the Data Forest

Once upon a time, in a world of whirling wires and blinking lights, lived Little Red Riding Bot. She wasn't your typical girl; she was a robot, shiny and new!

Little Red Riding hood as a robot girl, standing in a futuristic city with wires and lights

Red, as everyone called her, had a heart of gold and a head full of algorithms. She loved helping her mother, a renowned programmer, with her digital chores.

cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket helping her mom, a programmer, with her work on a futuristic computer

One day, her mother said, "Red, dear, Grandma Data's feeling buggy. Deliver this basket of binary bits to her, but be careful! The Data Forest can be tricky."

A worried robot mom handing a basket of glowing binary bits to cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket

"Don't stray from the Firewall Path!" her mom called after her. "And watch out for the Big Bad Virus - he's a real glitch in the system!"

cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket walking on a path made of firewalls in a forest with data cables as branches

Red promised to be careful. She put on her red hooded raincoat, for you never knew when data might rain, and skipped into the Data Forest.

cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket wearing a red raincoat, skipping through a forest with binary code raining down

The forest was like a giant computer. Trees made of circuit boards hummed with energy. Fluffy clouds floated by, shaped like speech bubbles with emojis.

A whimsical forest with trees made of circuit boards and clouds shaped like speech bubbles with emojis

Suddenly, a voice boomed, "Halt! Who goes there?" Red stopped. A giant robot, built like a walking firewall, blocked her path.

A giant robot made of firewalls, guarding the path in the Data Forest

"I'm Little Red Riding Bot, and I'm taking these binary bits to my Grandma Data," she said politely.

cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket talking to the giant firewall robot, holding her basket of binary bits

"Very well," rumbled the Firewall, stepping aside. "Proceed with caution!" Red thanked him and continued on her way.

cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket walking past the giant firewall robot, who watches her go

She skipped and sang, enjoying the sights and sounds of the digital woods. Squirrels with USB tails chattered from the branches.

Squirrels with USB tails chattering on branches made of circuit boards, while cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket skips by

Soon, Red reached a clearing. There stood a cozy cottage, built like a giant microchip. Smoke curled from its chimney, smelling like freshly baked cookies.

A cozy cottage shaped like a microchip in a forest clearing, with smoke coming out of the chimney

"This must be Grandma's!" Red thought happily, skipping towards the cottage. But little did she know, a glitch was about to occur...

cute robot girl with red hood, big eyes, carrying a basket smiling and running towards the microchip cottage

Reflection Questions

  • How do you think Little Red Riding Bot felt going into the Data Forest?
  • Why was it important for Little Red Riding Bot to be careful?
  • If you were designing a forest inside a computer, what would it look like?

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