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On our team we have 6 girls. Three of them write for our website and publications, the other 3 are actively involved with our robotics project. At least one of them is gonna be an excellent engineer one day.. :)

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I am the only girl on the robot team

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Scare the guys? no way, we'd like it :D

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we have 3 girls, and their all involved in strategy and documentation, nothing mechanical.....
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We have 5 "active" girls on our team (there´s one other, but she´s kind of an on-off sort of participant) , 26 students overall. This saddens me a bit, considering last year we had 7. It cheers me up, however, to see that the female work isn´t concentrated towards one area (which is usually Marketing)...2 of them work with PR/Marketing, one is a mechanic, another works with electronics and I´m a mixture of Documentation, Logistics, PR & Programming. Being the minority, we can get left out at times but it doesn´t come to a radical point where we do nothing at all. Some may disagree, but I certainly feel as if we´re being discriminated...
This whole FIRST-guy bias thing needs to be broken...all we need to do is prove that gender doesn´t reflect that person´s ability whatsoever. But sometimes the difference between those that can prove or not depends on one thing: opportunity.

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i'm a mentor for an all girls team

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Our team has 26 members, 9 of which are girls. That's almost a 2:1 ratio. In my mind, that's a ridiculously high ratio for a FIRST team. But the girls on our team do a lot of different activities. From publicity, to awards, to documentation, to showing the guys (who are to belligerent to even listen to each other) a new approach to something. If it weren't for them, we'd probably tear each other's heads off.

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unfortunately our team doesnt have nearly enough girls. we have probably about 15 out of 60 people on the team (this is better than the two on the team my freshman year). The girls do all jobs on our team, we have no bias, although some girls are a bit timid with working with machines they still help build the robot.

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Our team is Team 1243 From Swartz Creek, MI. We have a group of about 6 students who are there all the time and 3 who shows up occassionaly. Our team consists of 3 that show up all the time and 2 who show up occassionally. Our girls on the team do just the same work as the guys. As a matter of fact of team leader of students is a girl. The girls work on the robot in any way they can.


James

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Ah yes this beauty lives on.
Well the X-Cats are back to their girl heavy look this year with 18 girls and 14 boys and we make sure they participate in all aspects of the team.
Our coach and assistant coach will be young ladies this year.
Also our student liason, our scout master (mistress?), project planner and our spirit leaders are all young ladies.

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ours didnt really do much of anything last year, but its changed quiet a bit this year. i think they gained soem confidence and they are actualy quiet helpful now, without one of them, we would be broke and not have anuff money to enter this year :]. not to say that the guys did anything... out of like 15 kids only 4-6 of us did much. it has changed with them also, we got soem new guys who know their stuff, or are willign if they dont. the actualy number of kids who do stuff if much better than last year.

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almost half of our team consists of girls (12 out of 30), me being one of them. 3 work just on the robot (Me and two others) and the other girl does the math. All the other girls work on animation, website, marketing, I just wish more would get involved with the machines.

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I'm one of 4 girls on the team. (last year we only had 2! :ahh: )

I'm the only one of those 4 that isn't new this year, and the others haven't quite found their niche yet.. although one of the girls has started to work on robot construction the last couple meetings. I was a programmer last year and I'm thinking I'll work on electronics/sensors this year.. I was also a driver last year :D

Our team is pretty good about including the girls.. then again, our team is pretty small, so we need everyone we can get! :rolleyes:

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the 2 from last year that we had are gettining into the machine work, im glad they are cuz its fun, helpful, and a very nice skill to have(nothin better than a woman who knows her way around a shop, honistly). they made plywood prototypes all nite on wedsday while the rest of us bickered over designs :D.

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We have about 40 people on our team (845) including the engineers. We have about 13 girls on our team.