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Originally Posted by Karthik
This is a very interesting point that is rarely talked about in FIRST. Take a look at this post from 6 years ago by Andy Baker:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=54
Andy makes a list of 43 technical mentors who have had huge impacts on the engineering evolution of FRC. Every single one of them is a male. Why is that? Where are all our female rockstar engineers? Why aren't there female Raul Olivera's or Paul Copioli's? (I know they exist, but not nearly at the proportion that they should) It's an important question I've been pondering for years, but still don't have an answer for. |
I have no idea what a "female rockstar engineer" looks like, but it appears there have been many women who have won WFFA in the last 6 years. Maybe someone can update Andy's list.
I have worked with some women engineers locally who are terrific role models.
They more often are quietly working with teams, going about the business of mentoring in a way that matches what the team needs.
I have also had the pleasure of working with women engineers in the field of "engineering education" including some real rocket scientists.
FRC does not tell teams how they should run their team. So I am a little baffled by all the opinions here. I will try to read over the posts again to see what I am missing. For example, I just read a book about a FRC team where only seniors are allowed on the team...