It is rather surprising that so many people are amazed that we are an all-girls team. I'm not sure if they thought that girls aren't as capable as guys in building and operating a robot, or maybe they just liked our robot. Since we are all girls, we are all involved in the building of the robot, we really don't have a choice. It is quite a sight to see some of us with power tools.
I was a little intimidated my first year because of the predominantly male population, but most people do not treat us differently because we are all girls, so thats good.
Well, if anyone is ever at the same competition as us, feel free to come over and say hi:D.

mmm, I'd debate that. While I do know girls on several teams who work their tuchus off, it's not exactly the same on our team. Except for two girls, all the girls on our team do next to nothing, except take up space and noise.

We have 8 girls on our team. 3 were heavily involved on the Build Team, and spent at least as much time working as I (or anyone else) did. 2 of them ended up being on the drive team, too. The rest of our girls are on other groups, and do varying amounts of work, but not to the same degree of involvement.

Jeff not a cool thing to say considering all of our wiring was done by one of our girl members. But true not a lot of the girls volunteered for the cutting of metal.

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my team has 5 girls from 3 various schools, rockville, esast hartford, and manchester are where the girls are from, our team also has members from RHAM and coventry, we also have rumors to kids from tolland wanting to come over.
our team is primarily from rockville and east hartford, about 30 of our 40 members from those two schools, and the other schools are sparse because the engineering programs are not as large as those in the other two schools
overall, our team will accept anyone who wants to join, we have previously had members from Loomis-Chaffee and Cheeny Tech who had enough interest to form their own teams at their schools
As for the girls, i am one of the 5 that actually get dirty in the shop, not that the others don't want to, they either aren't in the metal shop when we build [our facility is in EH, metal shop in my school in rockville] or dont like that part of the team
i also got onto the build team and pit crew because i wouldn't let the engineers leave me standing there, i kept asking questions and damanding answers and wanted to know how things worked, so they put me to work, it was definetly worth all the annoying, and now they really like me!!:D
With most of the team leaving next year [seniors this year] i've done my best to get underclassmen like myself involved with building, which most of the seniors did, although i have had little luck, i believe next year should work, however much difficult it will be. But girls tend to like being PR and things that keep their hands clean, i, on the other hand, like getting my hands dirty and help build the machine, so that's what i do
you can't force the girls onto the team
most girls won't even date people on robotics, let alone join the teams, in my opinion, we don't need those girls, those who want to be involved will be

girls there are plenty or more can join!! I am in 11th grade joined in 9th i continue to love this program & ethusim about robots. I learn alot and do whatever i can to help. I do battery's and help out in the pits w/ the guys! This program has made me realize that my dreams in technology may come true! :D I had always liked computers and wanting to work w/ technology in ways. This program has made that possible. I have never been in a more exiting thing i have ever did! DEAN KAMEN is the best guy to make my dream in combing the two things i love to do into a big competition!! GIRLS BELIVE IN YOURSELF & U CAN DO ANYTHING U PUT UR MIND 2! ;)

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you know what... if your scho9ol doesn't have it already set up a all girls technology club. from there encourage them to go to the robotics team.... thats what we did

our team has 3school's and about 20 student and their are 7 girls 2 of them are our captain and co-captain. one of the girls did controls.

Those numbers are pretty close to our numbers. Most of the girls on our team do the behind the scenes work. They do things like the chairmans report, the awards, and the fund raising stuff. Our team probably wouldn't be able to even "stay a-float" with out their help. They are constantly working in the computer lab on several different projects. I thank all of them for the work they have done this year.

Good Luck to everyone at the invitationals.

Yeah, well, our team has a bunch of just awesome girls, and though the majority are a part of the PR team.. i think that our team would be completely lost without them!!!
We have one girl who designed the whole autonomous mode by herself.. and i think that that is just jaw dropping fantastic..
.. not to mention that i am a girl myself, and i think that we had a great dynamic to the team.. but then again, perhaps i'm just a bit prejudiced.. haha

wow "lindsay" i totally agree.
the girls on our team definately liven things up
(who else would do the tick dance into the hotel swimming pool fully clothed?)
but um i guess since i also am a girl i too may be a bit prejudice

one step at a time. our team has a similar situation, if there are girls in the pr, they iwll probably tell her friend and who knows will get addicted to mechanical and electrical. this yr my team is focusing on letting the lil'uns do work rather than teh veterans doing almost all of it.

i think we are actually going to go from classroom to classroom giving fIRST talks and recruiting people.

Well.. this year our team had like 5 girls and most of the time there were at least 3 girls at the class working on the robot (or at least trying to.. its hard to work with the big machines when the guys dont let us!) hehe! Next year the team is gonna be composed of 5 girls and 2 guys (were losing like 15 guys! )0: sooo sad!) .. but regardlessw, hopefully girls will be more active.

*ash*

We have DOUBLED our female participation for next year! We had one this year and will be having two female members next year. If I had a part in the new member application and selection process the number would be much higher. But unforntunately, I do not. :(