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DeathMonkey 27-01-2005 18:11
Re: Girls on Teams
 
well on 481's team we have about 3 girls on our team. one of them is even the Captain!! as far as their jobs go they get down and do just as much if not more of the heavy machine duty than the rest of the team. For anyone who doesn't know about Alyssa then you are missing out. she is the heart, soul, muscle, and mind of our team and you would be hard pressed to find someone more dedicated. to put it simply, that girl makes the team what it is. even as one of the guys I can see her worth to all of us.

JamizzleHavok13 28-01-2005 08:36
Re: Girls on Teams
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorienne Plait
Sonia -- Image with Brittany W. (unsure exactly what she does.)
Heh. Very true. Since this year's my rookie year, I don't know much about previous years, but I'm really glad there are a good amount of girls this year, and we're actually doing a lot of work, and doing it separately instead of flocking all together.

Lazarus (Adam) 28-01-2005 09:49
Re: Girls on Teams
 
We don't have many girls on our team- currently we have 4 girls-but all of them do as much work as the boys. ;)

Megas_xlr 28-01-2005 14:37
Re: Girls on Teams
 
Hi well i'm the only girl in the team and i'm the manager. I'm the one in charge of all the project :ahh: I'd just like to tell you all guys that it's really hard to work with all guys please be nice to them and include them in all the activties, sometimes girls don't do anything because they don't know anything that is why you guys have to help them and explain stuff and don't treat them like they're stupid

We're actually pretty smart and helpfull :)

cheers

Kyle Love 28-01-2005 15:40
Re: Girls on Teams
 
45 now has 6 or 7 girls on our team now. They are master spacer makers. They also help with the Chairmans and Woodie Flowers awards. Last year we didn't have any that went to the regionals. But IRI, we had a few go and they actually stayed on the team, so now we won't be an "all boy" team anymore! :)

phrontist 28-01-2005 15:58
Re: Girls on Teams
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki
I have a unique perspective on this; much of it is due to my personal experience:

I am female (duh :rolleyes: ). During high school I was one of 5 females on a team of 20 students. I entered the team without any technological knowledge, so I sought information and education on how to machine, prototype, and design. I had mild success but I found a greater passion: the PR, the awards, being interviewed with judges, and event organization. Next to that stuff I still machined parts in the shop and enjoyed it, could I do both?

I went to school to study Mechanical Engineering because robots are cool and I was a FIRST female who wanted to break the stereotype. After two years in college I realized that I was trying to be somebody I'm not. I'm not a designer, I'm not a person absolutely enjoys taking things apart & putting them back together again, and I'm not a person who enjoys talking about gear boxes all throughout a FIRST gathering after a regional. All I was doing was breaking a stereotype, but in order to be true to Who I Am I decided that life isn't about being who you want to be, but being who you are.

I'm a person who can make ideas happen. I can dream up a FIRST off-season competition, ask people for a tens of thousands of dollars, and organize the event. I enjoy making my ideas turn into reality. I feel like more of an entrepreneur. Oh great, another FIRST female going into business - Not Really. I'm now studying Industrial Engineering and I'm loving it! However, I do want to get a high-tech MBA afterwords.

Basically, I want to be a person who creates jobs for engineers. Not one of those engineers who fill a position.

I want to learn how to weld, machine better, and I enjoy working on FIRST robots with teams who need the help (not teams with 7 engineers who've been working together for ten years and are set in their ways). But this is only a hobby. I'm not tech-minded, I wasn't raised to be, and what I'm good at/enjoy can make me a lot of money in the future.

Girls, if you are techy, great! If you're not, don't worry about it. We're all good at something and FIRST can show you what that is. Just remember, be true to WHO YOU ARE.


erin
Thats exactly what I was failing so miserably at saying. :o

ElGeeko 28-01-2005 16:10
Re: Girls on Teams
 
Our team captain is a girl as is our main mentor. Other than that, no other girls have joined the team.

Mike Ciance 28-01-2005 16:24
Re: Girls on Teams
 
we have 3 girl members and 2 girl alumni who come to the meetings. the 3 girl members are all newbies this year so they have not had any huge jobs yet, but they help out whenever they can. the more involved of our female alumni (Kiwi_queen) is in charge of cheer/buttons/theming (known on our team as the Volcano Crew), and this is where the girl members mainly help out. our other girl alumni does not have enough time to get as involved, but she was on the battery crew for all 4 of her years as a member.

MXR1120 29-01-2005 16:41
Re: Girls on Teams
 
I was quite mollified when I saw this topic here at ChiefDeliphi. It interested me to see the roles of girls on other teams, as I have always wondered, Are the girls on the other teams doing the same things as me?

My name is Joy, and I am a fifteen-year-old sophomore at my school. I am one of the few rookies on the team this year, this being my first year. I've been interested in Robotics since I-don't-know-when, because my dad is an engineer and I've been exposed to the atmosphere for a fairly long time. I love electronics, and hence I am one of the two electronics apprentices. The other apprentice is a freshman, of the male gender. XD

There are 22 students who have signed up to be on the team, 15 of whom are active. And of those 15, 5 of us are girls: 1 freshman, 1 sophomore (me), 2 juniors, and 1 senior. Diverse, no? What's more, is that 1 junior and the senior girls have been members for more than a year. They are also council members, secretary and treasurer. Not much, you might say. But I say that their being on the council made me want to join even more.

Like I said, I am an electronics apprentice. This means that I'm learning on how to work on the electronics, how things work, and why. I love it! :D It's just one of the things that I love, I suppose. I am also on the chassis team, helping to build the robot.

Relationships between the girls and the guys here are quite easy-going, and everyone works great with anyone else. However, (yes folks, however) there are times when I myself feel that the guys think they know more. But of course, this might be due to the fact that I'm just a rookie. -__-; So really, I can't speak.

I must say, though, that many people find it hard to believe that I am on the Robotics team in the first place. This is because my other love is Art & Theater, which by the way, is no easy task, either. Still, the jump from Theater to Robotics is still pretty big, and balancing the two would be yet another wall to scale. Yes, with the Spring Musical coming up as well, this will be a pretty interesting season.

Ciao,
~Joy

cmurdoch 30-01-2005 00:49
Re: Girls on Teams
 
I'm not sure how many girls are on our team exactly, but they're involved in all areas. It's true that most of them end up doing administrative jobs like fundraising, but we have girls on our mechanical and electrical teams. I, for one, am the only girl programmer on my team :( But maybe I can recruit others for next year. Just thought I'd share.

Sam Lipscomb 30-01-2005 10:38
Re: Girls on Teams
 
We have 7 girls out of 22 total students...3 are freshmen, 3 are juniors, and 1 is a senior. We have no sophomore girls, but that's because there are only 4 sophomores on our team. :rolleyes:

Most of our girls are actually in PR...I'm editor of the newsletter and webmaster for our site, another girl is head of scouting, another puts together our Chairman's Award. But we all get involved in the construction process whenever we can, and our backup driver and operator are female, so next year we'll probably have a predominantly female drive team.

Our 3 captains are male, but with only 1 senior girl, that's not surprising. Next year, will a good number of the juniors being female, we'll probably have a more diverse group of captains.

The girls on our team work well with the guys: anything related to girls not being able to do something because of their gender is a joke, and is taken as such. We're all friends here! :D

'lil Gach 30-01-2005 11:35
Re: Girls on Teams
 
Well we have 10 girls (about) on our team.. All the girls range in different jobs... I know that on the electrical team there are 4 girls me included. I am the leader on the electrical team... So I mean there are a lot of girls that get involved with the robot.. One of our girls also does mechanical. Then there is one girl on software.. It is her first year on the team and she already knows more about software then I do! But that is ok because she is cool! Then we have one girl on playing field who is also a freshman and she does a lot with that! Then we have 2 of our girls on video.. Which they do an awesome job with we always have a good end of the year video!!!!! So on our team girls have the same amount of envolvement as the guys... There are just more guys then there are girls!

KelliV 30-01-2005 11:55
Re: Girls on Teams
 
On WildStang we have 10 girls on the team (i think) and I am happy to say that we all do a lot of work on different areas of the robot.
One thing that I do want to say is that publicity and cheerleading is not a bad thing. I am the head of the video team which is like publicity and to tell you the truth it is a good asset to the team. Whenever the software team wants to immediately check auto mode they can using our taped matches. Movies also give schools around the US a chance to see FIRST though the eyes of students.
Also cheerleader is a noble role for a FIRSTer, be it male or female, how else are the other teams going to know you are there? Also cheering lets people on your team playing active roles in compititions, not everyone can drive, but everyone can gather up in a large clump of FIRST spirit and cheer their hearts out!

WildStang also has 4 female members on their 7 member chairman's team.

ConKbot of Doom 30-01-2005 19:40
Re: Girls on Teams
 
We have a team of 37 this year, and 5 girls. 1 is head of draftsmen (they have been sorely under-worked this year, somehow we got 5 draftsmen, and only need 1 or 2) 2 do photo/video stuff and 2 do pr/team spirit.

But we are a technical school, so our main girl student body is in Cosmetology, Floral design, landscaping, Health occupations, agriculture. But there is a significant number also in Printing, and CAD though. 3 of the 5 come from CAD, and the other 2 are in CANT (Computers and Networking Technology, the seniors last year came up with it and it stuck) I was hoping for more girls, but that is how things go.

But the one who is our lead draftsmen likes to use the mill, so when she has the work done, and no freshman to wrangle, she does that.

newgrl101 30-01-2005 21:29
Re: Girls on Teams
 
Well, on our team, there are about 17 people on our team, 696, and we only have one girl.....me. Basically, my job includes programing, electrical, and machining. I am also partially incharge of fundraising efforts on the team. :]
But the truth is, it really is hard to be the only or one out of three girls on a team because no one takes you seriously. To All the guys out there: don't exclude girls or make fun of them, because really, we are just as strong. :cool:


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