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Originally Posted by Lledargo
The goal of FIRST is to inspire innovation, and teach students how to work in todays rapidly growing society. Exclusive teams only let people work with others of the same demographic, meaning they will not have to try as hard to learn to work with others that they may disagree with. which is not only counterproductive to the FIRST philosophy but to society in general.
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I'm going to have to jump in and disagree you here. Exclusive teams work with other demographics at competition. Working with people from other demographics that you may disagree with is pretty much the definition of the alliance system for matches, complete with occasionally incompatible goals.
I haven't worked with any of the other all-girls teams (or if I have, I didn't notice they were all girls), but I've been to several competitions with the Robettes. They spend as much time working with other teams as anyone else (and are generally wonderful to work with). The all-girl teams get plenty of exposure to other demographics.