[davidthefat]

1. What is your team name and number?
Falkons 589
2. Where is your team from?
Southern California
3. What is the gender break down of your team? Specifically regarding:
A. Team Leadership:
1 Female
2 Male
Students?
~10 Females
~30 Males
Mentors?
1 Female
8 Male
B. Drive Team:
Not Decided Yet
C. Pit Crew:
Not Decided
4. Have you dealt with or seen a gender bias on your team? Please explain.
I've seen gender bias; programmers are all male.
Family Life Questions:

1. What is your gender?
Male
2. What are your parents’ jobs/careers?
Construction
Stay at home mom
3. What is your career/your spouse’s career? (If applicable)
Student
4. Do you have brothers and/or sisters? What are their hobbies/jobs?
1 Brother; annoy me, watch tv, play basketball, play video games.... the typical 12 year old boy
5. Roughly describe your childhood: (i.e. who did you spend time with, what types of toys did you play with)
Legos and C++ are the only profound "toys" I remember. Videogames

Person Specific Questions:

1. Why did you join robotics?
What is the use in a talent for programming if it is being used for random junk biz that no one would see? Robotics allowed me to use my skill productively.
2. Why do you think that there are so few women working in science and technology fields?
Why? Because of the history of human kind and the circumstances they were put in.
3. What do you do on your team?
Lead programmer
4. What are your post high school aspirations? (Include college majors etc)
Doctorate in Comp Sci/Come Engineering in Caltech. I want to be a research scientist at JPL, IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, or any of those types of companies/organizations.
5. Have you considered going into a science or technology field? Why or why not?
Yes ever since I was like 5... I never knew why, I just love it.
6. Have you ever been discouraged about your career aspirations? By whom? (Relation and gender, no names please)
A lot of people. Mostly for my mediocre grades... The stereotypes.