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Originally Posted by Seth Mallory
The point of FIRST is to inspire students to learn. Different people work best in indifferent ways. That is the reason teams have different ways that they function. Our team is coed and some of our captains have been girls. Since all the students have to take the same training they all use the machine tools. Our school also has many girls on the local Girl Scouts team. I would like them on our team but if they want to be on the Girl Scouts team that is where they belong. At the regonals some of the teams the girls have minor rolls and do not work with the robot. When asked they respond that they do not work on the robot during build. Many of those girls would be better off on a all girls team just to get the chance to learn. Diffrent teams for diffrent folks.
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It has been two and half years since I posted on this topic. Last year our drive team was half female including the lead driver. This year we have a female team captain, 25% female members. and one third of our mentor staff is female and she is the lead mentor. We have female students in all of our groups and they are some of our best lathe and mill operators. The Girl Scouts still take many from our school since they take fresmen and GRT does not. The new girls each year have to compete to get on the team the same way the boys do. I still feel that if a girl would feel better on a all girls team then she shoud be on one. What ever inspires the students to learn is where they belong.