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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
I think the important step here is to move girls into leadership roles. We'll have a female captain for the third year in a row.
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So interesting you bring this up, 2/4 captains of a team I'll keep undisclosed, are girls, but they both take on more roles in the non-STEM aspects of the team. While at least one of them was initially very active in building the robot.
My impression is that they are probably the MOST excited about FIRST, but are overwhelmed by the boys that are REALLY into building. I don't know the dynamics of the team very well, but there's certainly a subconcious gender conflict happening that keeps things separated.