[Frenchie461]

Team Specific Questions:

1. What is your team name and number? Westside Boiler Invasion 461
2. Where is your team from? West Lafayette, IN
3. What is the gender break down of your team? Specifically regarding:
A. Team Leadership: 2 Female, 2 Male
Students? 8 Female 40 Male
Mentors? 2 Female 7 Male
B. Drive Team: 3 Male
C. Pit Crew: Not Decided
4. Have you dealt with or seen a gender bias on your team? Please explain.
Not really, one of the primary assemblers for tech is a girl, and one of the primary outreach people is a guy.
Family Life Questions:

1. What is your gender? Male
2. What are your parents’ jobs/careers? Professor and Stay at home
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 Sister, stereotypical 13 year old popular girl
5. Roughly describe your childhood: (i.e. who did you spend time with, what types of toys did you play with) I spent time with a lot of my friends that ended up on robotics, and i spent a lot of time messing with computers, audio equipment, and LEGO robots

Person Specific Questions:

1. Why did you join robotics? I got recruited by DUKE461
2. Why do you think that there are so few women working in science and technology fields? a widely accepted idea that women are naturally bad at math
3. What do you do on your team? a little bit of CAD, electronics, and almost all of the CNC work
4. What are your post high school aspirations? (Include college majors etc) Major in econometrics at University of Chicago, with a possible PhD
5. Have you considered going into a science or technology field? Why or why not? Yes, but economics is far more interesting
6. Have you ever been discouraged about your career aspirations? By whom? (Relation and gender, no names please) only when I wondered about a PhD in theoretical math, and that was only because of difficulty