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I am the only girl on my team of about 30 people and I am the President.

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Our team consists of 3 girls out of maybe 25. One of the girls has been very helpful in discussions and design. The other two, we're starting to think, don't really care. Perhaps this was a college application club for them, I'm not sure. They don't really come to meetings so we give them public relations jobs. But whatever. Not much you can do about it. It would be nice to have more girls interested in engineering, programming, etc. in the club, but that's not something we can control just yet. Soon our club will be big enough to inspire such things.

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Our numbers have gone up this year... We started out with 60 students... Consisting of about 19 girls... When people realize what kind of work we put out, the numbers have dropped to 45 overall and approximately 15 girls...

(Our passed 3 captains have been girls but not this year)...

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There are 45 students on my team. 10 are girls. 6 are very involved in spirit. 2 are very involved in assembly. 1 (me) is involved with designing (CAD, etc.). The captain (me) is a girl. Both co-captains last year were girls.

In recent years, I don't believe there have been any female members of the drive team, but let's see if this year changes that. ;)

~ Jill

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We have 7 girls on our team this year! Finally! Haha. We haven't had over 2 girls in over a few years. Quite sad, really. But here's the rundown on what they do:
Me -- Business Coordinator (Chairman's, Image/Spirit, Public Relations, Scouting at competitions, etc.)
Jamie -- Photography, Business with me.
Brittany G. -- Drive
Komal -- Auxiliary
Brittany W. -- Artist (for our t-shirts)
Sonia -- Image with Brittany W. (unsure exactly what she does.)
Kirsten -- Drive
We have about 32 people on our team as of yesterday. We've had a few people join on Monday. Quite an interesting thing that was.
=)

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our team has about 20 students, and of that, about 8 of them are girls. Most of the girls on my team are seniors (we have 0 senior boys this year), and so are very active in every aspect of our team. Most people choose what they want to do pertaining to the club, and most of the girls want to do the scouting at strategising on our team.

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Not sure if this was covered... (13 pages! Wow.)

Way back in the day, when I was in 8th grade, we had a prospective students night for the graduating 6th graders. They would come in and see all the school's facilities, especially for the elective classes. (They would choose shortly after that night.)

The woodshop teacher would only accept girls as volunteers for demoing tools. (I was into woodworking back then, and I got turned down for demo night.) Seeing my disappointment, he explained why:

1.) Girls come into woodshop and see other girls using powertools, getting their hands dirty, etc. It breaks down some of the gender barriers for them.

2.) Guys see a woodshop full of girls.

He figured it was a good way to get both sexes to join woodshop. My advice to teams who want more girls in engineering roles: Take the girls you have, and give them important roles during demonstrations: speaking, fixing, and driving.

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That is what my team needs a woman mentor on the mechanical side of things.

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Looking at our website, it seems that we have a total of 13 girls on the team this year, with three of them working directly on the robot.

818 is split up into several subteams which are created by the mentors; girls are free to apply to whatever group they wish, but it seems like most of them end up in the scouting/spirit/fundraising group. I don't know if that's by design, chance, or something else entirely, but that seems to be how it's worked for my time on the team.

That said, it bothers me that we still think about this and still make a big deal out of it. With any luck, we'll be able to reach a point where we don't need to do that sometime soon...

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This year, our team has 11 girls out of a total of 33 members. I myself, a female, am team president. Three out of the eleven work in our manufacturing department, 1 works in animation, and the rest of us are part of communications/PR/marketing (a secretary, 2 photographers, several newsletter editors, fundraising, web managers, team spirit, chairman's/hall of fame, etc). Having girls represent a third of the team is definitely a positive thing, though it would be awesome to inspire more girls to join in the years to come and pursue interests in manufacturing and animation.

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'bout 21 kids on the team, 2 gals for sure, 1 who keeps flunking and can't participate and 1 whose parents don't let her come all the time
I do communication pr and writing stuff
ariel would do machining if she was ever here
and Jesse does electrical if she would stop burning herself with the sautering iron
and carlyn who would also do electrical if she were ever here.....not too great a representation...doesn't help that none of the people in our school are like us and that we live in a lake of preps.... :mad:

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there is one girl on our team (student, that is... there are also a couple of female mentors) and she is in our programming/electronics subsystem.

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Our team is composed of the Honors Advanced Physics class and then other students. In our physics class, we have 15 girls in our class of 28. We currently have about 65 members in addition to the class. Probably about half are girls. The girls in the class hold most of the administrative tasks. However, these are jobs we picked at the begining of the year. Girls are give any opportunity they want to work on anything they want. At the begining of the year, they were able to learn from other team members things like programming. I personally am the communications officer and publicist. But I specifically fought for my position.

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We have a grand total of about 11 people on our team. 2 of those are girls. Kepp in mind that we DID NOT force ANY position on the team on them. They chose their positions ON THEIR OWN! They do work as our publicists and make good relations with teams and when the rest of the team is at the field, they will be staying behind and giving info. about our program and bot while we are away. Our 'head mentor' if you would like to call him that is extremely encouraging more girls to join our team. It just so happens that at our school has more guys who want to join the robotics team than girls.

P.S. We also have our girls run most of our presentation that we do for businesses that might want to sponser us.