103 Team Members
 

Cybersonics members are as follows for 2003
Male: 18
Female: 15
We have 5 student officers - 3 are female

Famale Role Breakdown:
1 - mechanical/scout
1 - electronics/head scout
1 - electronics/programming/scout
1 - Inventor Website Development/Manager
1 - PR/Strategy Coordinator
2 - Animation/scouts
1 - Animation/PR
2 - PR
1 - PR/Web Content/Scout
1 - PR/Fundraising
3 - PR/Fundraising/Scouts

-Why is the question asked to "exclude" those in PR?

We have numerous girls on our team.
And being that I am not only a mentor but a chaperone
YOU
CAN'T
HAVE
ANY
OF
THEM!!!



Go back to your room! :rolleyes:

He meant other schools as in other high school students interested in their robotics program, not previous visiting members from college. Plus, are you saying that Dan's a girl? =P

team 388 has always had a majority of females,
ex our first year we had 4 guys, and around 20 girls!!!:yikes:
the next year, about 7 or 8 guys and 12 or so girls.
this year is ALMOST half and half, but more of the girls have shown up to work than the guys.
:yikes:

Personally... while sheer numbers of girl look good to the affirmative action crowd... From a teenage boy standpoint- we need to do something to encourage the convergence of the robot geeks and the attractive members of the female subspecies. It may have been said by everyone once. But we should have cheerleaders. FIRST cheerleaders.

we did..
almost every one of our girls was a cheer leader, basket ball player, track runner, or just plain beautiful.
hehe... we had em alll!!!!
tho its because of the way our team works,
its part of an extra cirricular program that normally only the "brainy" kids get into, and those are usually the ones you described

Masamune:

It's not so weird. My brother and I are from Sweet Home High School, and we drive 45 miles to West Albany to go to meetings. Next year I will start a team in sweet home.

Virusmirusne:

I totally agree with you, however, though some girls are attractive it is best to get ones w/ attractive personalities. Both doesn't hurt, though. :D

Team 692 is called the Fembots. I'm sure you can figure out how many of us are girls. :p

Our team doubled in size in comparison to last year. It's awesome to see so many girls interested in this program!

A girl without a personality is like an aluminum box without a chiaphua.

It is nice to have girls on your team, but its not all about having some hot chick to stare at all the time. when you are around guys 24/7 during robotics, its nice to have girls in there to lets say even out the hormones. They are different than us, and fun to hang out with.

FIRST does not want to attract girls because they are hot, and because teenage guys like to stare at them. FIRST wants to attract girls, becuase typically, technology and engineering fields are filled by men. FIRST's goal is to get girls interested in science/technology/engineering who would not be exposed to these fields otherwise.

How do you think girls feel when they see that people want them on their teams simply because they are "hot"? I don't think that women are flattered by men who want them around, simpy because they are nice to look at. I would say that the vast majority of the girls involved in FIRST are not in it so they can recieve attention from us, but because they are interested in robotics, or want to learn about robotics.

To sum it all up:

It is very demeaning to only value girls because they are "hot" value them for who they are: people just like us who love robotics. There is a lot to be learned from each other.

Sorry ive been ranting for so long, but I feel this is important:cool:

Cory

Very well said. I always find it offensive when someone says that their team needs more attractive females. It's perfectly fine to be attracted to good looking people, but being chauvinistically disrespectful and misogynistic is definetly not cool.

I don't mean to attack virusmirusne, but it's just a general pet peeve I have...

Guys... I was really joking... it was very much a sarcasm thing. I joked being fully aware of what are held as the "traditional" views toward women in engineering. The sarcasm thing has never gone over well on the internet... it's an age-old problem. Our head programmer is a girl... and she definitely knows her stuff. I'm not a bigoted woman hater or anything. There are plenty of girls more intelligent than me and in very advanced math classes and things. My sister is graduating this spring from Rollins with a bachelors in mathematics... I know smart girls are cool... I was just trying to lighten the mood.

All of this evidenced by the post that followed my original post...

Cory, I love you! We've had problems with this in the past ... some guys on our team are always saying, "Man, I wish we had some hot girls on our team!" Or "Oh man, I wish she was on our team - we need some hot girls!" From my (and the rest of the girls on my team) standpoint ... it really hurts. Sure, the girls on my team might not be the most beautiful things that ever walked the planet ... but we've got brains. And kick*ss personalities! Doesn't that count for something? I don't mean to carry on about this, but I think this is something that affects a lot of girls involved in FIRST ... and it kind of sucks. :(

virusmirusne - I'm sure you were just trying to lighten the mood. I'm not trying to rip on you in any way, shape or form. :) But this does come up a lot with my team, and it really does hurt.

With that said, I'm gone.

- Katie

wow.......