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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
In the beginning of the year we do demonstrations of what we do. From there we have them decide (boys and girls) what team they want to be on. Simple as that. I wish there were more girls on our team into engineering but most of our female members would rather write an essay then drill a hole. There are the exceptions like our engineering vp who is a girl and we have a freshman member who doesn't come much but when she does she goes around the robot and cleans everything up (she's a perfectionist).
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There are a lot of forces outside of your team pushing both boys and girls in one direction or another. I haven't mentored a team before, but if I ever did, I would try to do a little more than just sitting back and letting people "choose" - because there are a lot of things going into that "choice" that aren't necessarily positive.