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44 of 115 Team 226 members are girls. They are involved in all aspect of our team and is 45% of our leadership including Engineering VP, Information VP, and Engineering Design & Strategy Team Leader. We took a photo of some of them today showing #ILookLikeAnEngineer. John

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This year I believe the it is about 16 out of 55 team members are girls.
A lot of the girls are on either chairman's team or control systems team. I am the only girl out of twenty five people on out design and mechanical team. Three years I was one of out teams safety captains but I also helped with machining, designing, wiring and really anything that needed to get done.

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We have about 10 girls on a team of 35 but over 2/3 of the leadership positions are manned (or womanned?) by girls.

Team Captain: 1
Mechanics: 3
Programming: 1
Business: 5

Note: I'm not counting those girls that are super new members, or come irregularly.

Something to think about with a lot of girls doing PR or business related stuff is that people tend to be drawn more to what their friends are doing. And in my experience, a lot of girls are friends with mostly girls, and the same goes for boys. 90% of the boys on my team do something other than business while only 50% of girls do. When I joined, a girl I was friends with was doing business, so I did too. When my (female) friends joined most of them decided to do business also; it's more comfortable to work with people you know. New male members already know team members from outside of school and will then join whatever it is they are doing: which is mechanical or programming.

I do wish that someone had pushed me out of my comfort zone when I first joined, so that I could've tried some teams outside of business even though I've grown to really enjoy it. Honestly, I think the best way to address gender divisions is to really encourage girls to do things they aren't really traditionally expected to do or think they're not smart enough for, even if their friends aren't doing that.

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Our team is pretty small with about 20-25 students wanting to be on the team. We have 4 girls. One of them is a PR student by her choice, the others are all Build team. Two of them will more than likely be Drive Team or Backup Drive team this year and the third is moving before Kickoff and will no longer be on the team. :(

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We have close to 100 students on our team with about a 60/40 split for guys and girls. We also have some students who identify as transgender. What is interesting is that consistently, year after year, the girls log more hours than the guys. The girls put in almost twice the number of hours to the guys last year.

I try to seek out opinions from all of our students on how we can improve and one of the things they keep telling me is to continue to foster an environment where everyone is welcome. We're always looking to improve but we seem to be doing a pretty good job of it based on their feedback.

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Our team has about 20-25 students, with about 9 girls. Most of them are in marketing, but 2 of them are in build and pit crew, and one of them is our team captain.

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I believe we have half girls and half guys on our team. I am a female and am Electronics team captain. The girls are very active on our team. Many of them are on business team, but there are quite a few on the technical side of things! :D

EDIT: and one of our two team captains is a girl!

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We have about 30% girls on our team. They do everything and anything they want. This year, we have 4 team captains and they are all girls. We don't divide people up into teams at the beginning of the season so everyone can work on whatever needs doing. This past summer a group of three girls were the mainstays in our summer robot project that ended up on the winning alliance at Chezy Champs. Our intake wheels for that robot were 3D printed and molded by an incoming freshman girl.

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We would love more girls on our team! With that said:

Of the 8 girls on the Foley Freeze - Team 910 Robotics team (25% of the team is made up of girls), we had 1 media/photographer, 1 Business/Documentation lead and the remaining 6 were on Build or Prototype. 2 were subteam leads. 3 were new freshman. The subteam prototype lead was also our spirit lead. :)

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We have 13 girls on a 21 person team, and they are 3/4 of our drive team, our lead programmer, our two electronics people, our chairman's team, our safety team, and two of our build team captains, as well as many of our build team members.

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On team 342, we let our students choose what they want to do. we have 1 girl on drive team, 2 in mechanical(drive included), and 5 in chairmen's, website, and business. I am the safety captain.

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On team 839 Rosie Robotics we have 6 girls on our team and 24 students in all, and 4 out of the 6 are part of our 9 student executive board. Their roles are Director of Manufacturing, Director of Risk Management, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer. The other two girls are on our Engineering sub-team and our programming sub-team.

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Over the last 4 years we've had 30-40% girls, about 50% on our travel squad, 4 girls as captains plus 2 more co captains. Our 2013 drive coach was a girl (we now use an adult). We also stage a WiSTEM conference in the fall.

Our girls were asked a couple of years ago about playing in all-girls matches at a regional, and they said, "no, we want to compete against the boys."

Our lead mentor is a girl so if anything (even the tiniest thing) seems unfair she will not hesitate to say something. Also, we are all one big group of friends (or we're dating each other) so if something does come up it is really easy to talk about and fix it. It makes me so mad to see some girls being pushed aside at competition or in the build room- girls have super important skill sets!!! Listen to and let your girls help!!!

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I don't have the exact number of girls on my team, although I know its close to even with guys, girls on my team do anything from marketing to fixing our robot in the pits, some program, some do mechanical work, and a few do electrical fixes. To me it feels like a pretty equal makeup. adding to that one of the co-captains is a girl.

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3506 has about 25 students and 7 are female this year which is lower than our norm. Last year we were closer to the 50/50 split but we had a lot of graduates. Our drive system with 3-stage shifting gearboxes, electrical system, and first climber were built by females.

When this year is over we should have a high influx of female participants from our all girl FTC/FLL teams.

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We have 3 girls in The Riot Crew now. One has a lapsed membership, but when she's around she is fully into building and maintaining the robot in the pits. A second is on the build/pit crew and knows the robot really well. A third spends much of the build season on spirit, but is our operator this year, which is fantastic.

When I was on the team (a decade ago) none of the girls were much into building or in the pits, but we had a great human player, two girls in the business / organization area, and I worked almost exclusively on the team's website. I think we've made a huge improvement, but should get more girls on the team. :yikes:

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10 of our 50 students are girls. We have girls on Mechanical, Electrical, Finance, Imagery, Communications and Outreach, and multiple involved in Leadership. We even had 2 audition for Drive Team (although neither made it). Most perform key roles on the team. Like without these girls, our team wouldn't function.

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37% of our team are girls, and that includes two out of three build leads and both presidents, themselves being involved in design and programming before their presidencies.

Our drive team is male human player, male operator, male driver, female coach. Pit is four girls and two guys.

While both our business VPs are female, one is also the pneumatics lead, and our social media lead is a male.

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About 40% of our active members are girls, including 2 of our 3 co captains, our electrical/pneumatics lead, and our mechanical lead(me!). This percentage is pretty constant throughout our subteams, including our business team, drive team, and pit crew. Also, our only mentor who is a mechanical engineer is female.

When I joined the team, my freshman year, I was the only active female member by the end of build season. The next year we didn't recruit any students who stayed active(we had a clique of seniors who did everything). I ran the interest meetings my junior and senior years, and we saw a huge increase in female retention. In one year, we went from 10% female to 40% percent female(we're a small team) among our active members. This year, we saw another increase in general student retention, but a less dramatic increase in female students.

What we've learned from this is that recruiting female students is easier if you have female leadership. Girls are more likely to stay active beyond the first meeting if they see other girls having active roles in technical areas. We are hoping to increase female representation further by doing presentations to girl scout troops(our lead mechanical mentor is the leader of her daughter's troop) and the GEMS(girls excelling in math and science) club at our school.