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Team Specific Questions:

1. What is your team name and number? Team Stealth #1802
2. Where is your team from? Kansas City, KS
3. What is the gender break down of your team? Specifically regarding:
A. Team Leadership: 1 female and 4 male
Students? Total: 16; Female: 2; Male: 14
Mentors? Active mentors(we have some away at college currently) Male: 5; Female: 2
B. Drive Team: Not decided yet but most likely all male
C. Pit Crew: All male, possibility of 1 female
4. Have you dealt with or seen a gender bias on your team? Please explain. We have a difficult time getting students in general which leads to finding females wanting to participate extremely difficult. Our team is very small compared to other local teams.

Family Life Questions:

1. What is your gender? Female
2. What are your parents’ jobs/careers? Admin and Shop Manger(mechanic)
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, he competes in FLL and likes to make replicas of medieval weaponry
5. Roughly describe your childhood: (i.e. who did you spend time with, what types of toys did you play with) I spent time mostly with boys, I grew up outside of a neighborhood and had to entertain myself. I loved my legos(still do), Lincoln logs and my barbies.

Person Specific Questions:

1. Why did you join robotics? Heard all about it from my cousin and wanted to be apart of something so amazing
2. Why do you think that there are so few women working in science and technology fields? Gender roles still playing a major factor in today's society
3. What do you do on your team? Student: Treasury, scrap booking, attendance, safety, public relations, outreach, fundrasing, and basically everything outside of the robot. Mentor: Basically everything I did in high school but now I'm helping coach the students on how to do it
4. What are your post high school aspirations? (Include college majors etc) College and a job with FIRST
5. Have you considered going into a science or technology field? Why or why not? Was originally a ChmE then switched to Secondary Education focus in science.
6. Have you ever been discouraged about your career aspirations? By whom? (Relation and gender, no names please)