When her beloved (but underfunded) inner-city after school club is at risk of shutting down, tweenager, Brianna must dig deep in order to find confidence as a leader and a singer so she and her crew of misfit friends can win the grant that will save their special program.

SYNOPSIS:

When 12-year-old Brianna and her best friends at the Eastside Afterschool Club overhear the director talking about how the building’s owner wants to double the rent and turn the building into a Dollar Store, the kids panic! The club may not be fancy but when they walk through the doors everyday after school and see their favorite person, Director Dee-Dee, they instantly feel at home.

Days later, Brianna is excited to announce she’s found a solution: a local industry is offering a $20k grant and a week at science camp to the club that wins a series of monthly academic and artistic competitions. The kids are determined and start plotting the first challenge - a fancy tea party presented to some elderly church ladies. But when the baking team discovers that the club fridge has broken and everything they bought with their limited budget has spoiled, the tweens fall apart. Dee-Dee gives them a rousing rap song about some incredible real life POC and, inspired, they decide to make a music video to post online to ask for a new fridge.

At the big tea party, disaster strikes again - ants, from earlier in the episode, are discovered crawling all over the food! To buy time, the kids beg Brianna to sing a song to the church ladies (which takes some persuasion since she had declared earlier she was giving up music forever). She totally shines and saves the day. The kids proudly end up winning 2nd place; they are still in the running toward winning the grand prize and saving the club.