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On our team we have like 4 girls on the media team and 4 on the build team. on the build team the girls drill, mill, and cut parts for our robot. they do everything the guyz do and the work is equally split.

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on our team, we have one girl and she does scouting, chairman's, some PR, and anything she thinks can help... and she did help in the shop during the build season

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Team 173 rage- With 24 active students total on our team we have 8 student females. Their roles range from past team president, drive team coach, robot drivers, cheerleaders, spirit, build committee and pit crew. Girls rock so do the guys. We have grown a lot as a team dealing with the male -female thing.

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slightly less than half of our team is girls and thats pretty good for a team with 60-70 kids. I have done field construction and some pit work (not bunches though). Girls do driving. there is only one guy in the pit crew. they other three are girls. Mostly girls are in the spirit team which consists of cheerleading and going to local businesses to get giveaways for competitions. we also work on the buttons. girls work on the chairman's award. they have welded (and that was a scary sight for some of them). We basically do anything that we can.

I also spoke at a VIP luncheon at UCF BECAUSE I'm a girl. they wanted girls giong into engineering. so that was cool.

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im the only girl on our build team....and the work is not spread out even.

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Its lucky to have an all girl team, but unfortunately for some other girls, it's not their faults that they are more cheerleaders than builders. Although I personally can't complain about missing jobs because I was a girl (I helped build, computer program, and was a robot operator for all the practices and competitions), because I was a girl, I was given certain jobs. Regardless of my being a robot operator, when our coach had us interviewed and pictured for a newspaper, I was there because I was a girl and the other guy was there because he was black. We joked about it because we both did deserve to be there, but we were actually there because it made our team look well represented. We're from a southern private school. The black guy was the ONLY black guy on our team of about twenty-five (which actually is a much higher percentage than our schools ratio of black/whole pop) and I was the ONLY girl on the team that did "grunge" work like the guys. Instead of representing other members for their innovative ideas, we were picked based on looks. My coach also told me I'd be the one talking to anyone who came around the pit area to ask about our team. It was convenient because I was nearly always in the pit 'cause I put way too much in to the robot, but I was picked BECAUSE I WAS A GIRL. Granted, I liked doing PR, but it wasn't for the right reasons I was given the job.

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Just to play devils advocate and in no way trying to insult or offend you, what evidence do you have that the discussions presented above were based on race and gender as opposed to competence? Were you told or did you just make that assumption?

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Assumption on what exactly?

Did you mean on this thread over all?
This thread is called "Girls on Team".... I think that covers the gender aspect. The race was just another example of some of the unfairness of how a team can be represented....

If you meant on my team:
Otherwise, yes of course I was told I was being picked because I was a girl. I originally felt I was much too busy to be doing PR (I was on field as an operator and otherwise I was in the pit organizing our (AMAZING!!) scouts data or recalibrating the robot). It was a pretty obvious climate of separation as my coach had different "team rules" for me than the rest of the team, some understandable (its a school trip, i have to room alone and stuff as i was the only girl there- really fun spending all night alone in a hotel room until i get to spend later nights next to a girl i didnt know who snored like a whistle), but yes, i was most definitely told such things. The guys were allowed to leave the hotel, didn't have a curfew, etc because I was essentially isolated in my room where I was safe and therefore they couldnt get in trouble. As it was, my coach repeatedly took me off the tryouts list for our arm operator and put me under "PR" and "Team Spirit" because he felt I'd be more comfortable with girls. It was other members of the team that even allowed me to try out and pushed for me to get it because I was the best (at tryouts) and they knew I'd put in the practice effort.

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1 of 25, shes our organizer

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The less you treat this like an issue, the less it will be.

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i have absolutely nothing to say since im on this team, and dain (the starter of this thread), you KNOW you love me! CONGRATS ON GETTING INTO COLLEGE!

677 represent!

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Team 971 has 4 girls out of 20 members, none of whom are particularly active in the club (one is our webmaster, the rest hardly ever show up). I personally have tried to recruit more, but the only ones who are interested tend not to be able to commit the time, being in multiple AP classes AND doing sports AND working part time, etc. etc...it's really a bummer.

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This year, despite active recruiting of girls, we only have a single female student. She is picking it up very quickly after only a couple months, and it looks like she has a knack for welding and putting things together. I sincerely hope that her apparent enjoyment of the program will lead to more girls on the team... she is the first we have had on our team since our former team captain moved :(

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I agree. As long as girls make a big deal out of women engineers, the longer they will be seen as being different.

I'm a girl myself, and I'd rather be treated like "one of the guys" than seen as different.