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Last year we had about 1/3 of the team were girls, including our team captain. This year its not 1/3, maybe 1/4 or so. Most of the girls are on the animation team, but we have one who does alot of the electronics(and last year she did alot of machining. But she also does alot of outreach and PR), 2 working on one of our manipulator groups, including of the sub-teams leaders, and one working code and strategy. Then we have 4 or 5 on animation. We also have 5 female mentors i beleive.

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we've got maybe 4 or 5 girls on our construction team but they never come, the webmaster for our site is also a girl and she is the only one who ever shows up to meetings. its kindof sad, we would like to have more girls on the team but for some reason we can never get that many.

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Our team technically has about 5 girls out of about 25, but that last weekend before shipping, I noticed on Saturday and Sunday nights that I was the only girl there out of about 10 guys there. Which, dude, any member who wasn't there totally missed out cuz on that first trial we did with our robot, stacking 4 tetras very first time: WOOT!. One girl does our photography, another is the spirit leader, I'm not sure what the other does that shows up, but her father is very useful and the fourth doesn't show up, but she says it looks good on her college application.

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yeah iv noticed that too, not just the girls but about 60 or 65 people on our 80 member team just seem to be on the team for how it looks on apps and never actualy show up.

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It really pisses me off because then these people who don't really put in any of the work, get a lot of the benefits from the team. I mean my college application next year won't have a gpa that is nearly as high, but that's because I spend all my free time doing things. She on the other hand will be saying she does all these other things on top of keeping great grades, but really she's just working on the school aspect. Of course she's gonna have good grades when she has time to get 8, maybe even more hours of sleep. Meanwhile I spent last weekend at the robot house til 1 am and this weekend? Yea, I've spent 19 hours at school already for Drama(Stage Managing) and thats where Im leaving to go 5 mins from now. (Little Shop of Horrors play next weekend! =) and then I'll be back at the robot house. I barely even spend 8 hours away from school on the average day. I'm not complaining about the workload, cuz wow, some of the funnest times I end up having are at robot or at drama, but it's a lot of WORK, and she's just getting the credit.

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well its always about will you feel good about turning lies into colleges?

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Three on ours. There was five at the beganing of the year but as you can see we lost two.

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To be honest, i would love a few high-school girls on the team. Give a bit of balance.

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there are but not as many as everyone would like.
((sorry if i brought this thread back.)) :(

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hmm i think we got let see:

cara, steph,katelyn, himena. . ok 4 girls.. about 30 team members..
himena and cara are in shop .. steph does animation + sprit and katelyn spirit

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We have 6 "girls" on our team out of 10 students that really participate: Bailey, Leslie, Emma, Diane, Kaitlin, and Anna. We're mostly "girls" this year. We won the Detroit regional, so I guess "girls" can build robots too. Here's a mentor's point of view on our young ladies.

Bailey (senior) is a team captain. She leads the mechanical team, does our welding, helps build the robot, writes the business plan, is the drive coach, does a lot of fundraising, and generally acts like a mom for everyone.

Leslie (senior) is also a team captain. She leads the electrical team, constructs the electrical boards, organizes the team meetings, takes meeting minutes, works on fundraising, and provides much of our comic relief. She's also our arm operator.

Emma (senior) was in charge of design and pneumatics. She created the drawings and CAD models that we used to build the robot. She also installed much of the pneumatics on our robot. That was a big task this year.

Diane (senior) has historically been our lead on build and in the pit, but she's had a smaller role this year due to some personal issues.

Kaitlin (Sophomore) helps out where ever she can. She did a great job on the BOM and has taken the lead on managing the batteries in the pit. I suspect she'll be one of the leaders next year.

Anna (Freshman) is learning a lot. She has been great to have around because she puts everything she has into whatever task you give her. I think she'll take more responsibility next year and will ultimately be a leader on the team.

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Our team has traditionally had a lot of girls on it...6 year team with 2 male captains.

I do PR work sometimes, I have written award submissions and done chairman's presentations but it was more because I was able to fill that gap. I also ran scouting for two years, was an alliance captain, work on pit crew, have done two leadership positions, have done four years of mechanical and have fun pretending I know what I am doing in electronics. I think that girls with no previous experience, like any member of the team without previous experience, walk in and look for gaps to fill in the team structure. If they can find a gap to fill with inviting people all the better...or at very least a place to be. I think though that with a good training program and a welcoming team girls will randomly gravitate towards any spot.

It is hard to break down girls/guys as far as numbers on our team...we don't really categorize them that way. It is more labeled by "competent/incompetent."

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I am one of three active female members. there are maybe 32 members all together.
One, is the electrician... she's amazing, the only person on the team who can wire the robot.

the other works strictly in the machine room. She's there, constantly working on parts. she was a human player at VCU as well.

I am the Reinassance girl.
I started off by doing logistics; calling companies, making hotel reservations. Then I stepped away from the phone and computer and actually got my hands dirty with the table saw, making bosch trinkets. Now I'm a scout leader.
(I also worked on the Ackerman steering)

There are two or three others that don't come to meetings, but they'd worked on the bot during class.

I, sadly, am the only girl on my team that's going to nationals.