There are 29 students on our team. 11 are girls.

Most of the girls on the team do spirit, but there are a few exceptions. One of our two captains is a girl, works on chairmans and build, and is also pit captain (she's also going to college for mechanical engineering). One of our electricians is a girl and she's also our treasurer and secretary. Another girl on our team is co-captain and works on chairmans, fundraising, and PR. I'm a girl and I'm a programmer (the first and only girl programmer on the team).

If you look at all the girls on our team, only 3 do engineering-type work. That's a little disapointing when you notice that about every single guy on our team works on the robot at some point and there are 18 guys on the team. Our drive team hasn't had a girl on it since 2010 (and no girls tried out for driver this year). Our school offers a varsity letter in robotics and I'm sad to say that I'm probably the only girl on the team who will get a varsity letter this year.

Yes, I do understand that not everything is about the robot, but isn't our goal to get more students involved in engineering?