Thread: Are all girl FIRST team counterproductive to the philosophy of FIRST?
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Re: Are all girl FIRST team counterproductive to the philosophy of FIRST?
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Originally Posted by treffk View Post
Although, I do support single gender teams especially within Girl Scouts because they are focusing on introducing the girls into technology. There are single gender schools that also have teams. Do you think they should combine with another single gender teams of the opposite sex?
I find it interesting that you would bring this up, and that I would read this. The situation which you described is very similar to what my team did. We are from an all-boys Catholic high school. For our first year, we were an all boys team. Over the summer, we opened membership to a local all-girls Catholic high school. Currently, we have about 2 or 3 active members from the girls school.

When we first opened membership, there was a very good response. Roughly 30 or 40 girls showed up to our "orientation" meeting, which we held to get the girls ready for an all girls competition hosted by the Firebirds (FIRST Team
433). About 10 of those girls showed up to the competition, which was about all we had enough room for. Since then, we haven't seen most of those girls (many of whom admitted to their friends that they showed up for the boys. Who can blame them? We've got some fine looking gentlemen on our team! ).
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