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Re: Girls on Teams going to Engineering
1) Several of my friends were on the team and I saw how much fun they were having so I went to a couple meetings, went to a regional, and was hooked.
2) This will be my fourth year. I'm currently a college freshman and am a mentor on the team my college sponsers. 3) I'm attending Boston University, but I was also accepted to Case Western, UNH, Lehigh, Lafayette, and Skidmore. 4) I'm a biological anthropology major. I love FIRST and engineering, but anthropology is a field I know I will enjoy studying more all the way around. 5) We need more female engineers, especially on FIRST teams, to show girls that it really is a field they can get involved in if they want. It's a field that you can definatley get a good job with, and many colleges are looking for female engineers. |
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2) 6 years 3) Went to WPI on the Allaire Scholarship. Accepted to Northeastern, RIT, RPI, Clarkson, Georgia Tech and UCF 4) Currently, I'm studying Mechanical Engineering. Initially I wanted to go into the design aspect, but as I go along I discovered I'm enjoying Materials and Manufacturing more. 5) Because I hate going to certain classes and being one of three females in the class. In my smaller classes, this is always the case. There isn't enough female engineers out there. |
Re: Girls on Teams going to Engineering
1) The team leader, my physics teacher, and a friend from my classes on the team both encouraged that I joined at the end of my freshman year. I checked it out then and decided to jump on board my sophomore year.
2) I was involved on team 433 my sophomore to senior year and I volunteered at Philly this year. 3) I am currently a sophomore at the University of Delaware studying Chemical Engineering. They have a prestigious ChemE program there and I was awarded a $10,000 FIRST scholarship to UD. FIRST not only enabled me to receive this scholarship, but through the exposure to engineering, was the reason for my choosing to study engineering. 4) I hope to use my engineering training in the pharmaceutical industry. I think the advantages an engineering degree provides toward your career are invaluable, especially for a woman looking to advance her career in a very competitive job world. 5) I think many more women should be encouraged to consider engineering because it is a field, despite many stereotypes, in which they can excel that is currently mostly male dominated. The more women who follow this career path, counteracting the stereotypes, the better off every industry will be for the unique talents women can bring to the table. FIRST, in my experience and observation, is the BEST way to encourage women to explore this field and is probably the most effective organization currently "recruiting" women to engineering from high school. Whether a girl chooses to fill the role of cheerleader or PR representative over that of robot engineer does not lessen the impact of the exposure and opportunities provided to her through FIRST. |
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