[safiq10]

Now exclusion is something our team unfortunately has a history with before our 2013 season, our captains were mainly boys through voting. They somewhat abused their powers and made girls have the unfair jobs (Handling funding, outreach, really anything but the robot) then the robot was just all guys.
In our 2013 season a member of the team said, " So I know we made it to finals last year and lost against the future world champs that all swell and dandy but this whole guys build the robot and girls do the clean job has to stop...." He went on talking about how it is unfair and by being upfront with the team ans straightforward we have seen more girls join the team (we went from girls making up 16% to girls making up 56% in a single year.)
The girls still feel a little shy to join the engineering side of our team so we have started a girls engineering club at school so that girls can feel more comfortable engineering and if they chose can start co-ed engineering in FRC. So far it seems to be working since they are going to be competing in FTC next season.

In summary our team has had success with just being upfront with our team about the problems we face.