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Re: Make: To Build a Better Team, Build a Better Robot - Kate Azar on Women in STEM
Another thing we're doing this year that we're hoping will better integrate the team by gender is requiring all members (and even mentors) to participate BOTH in a business-side committee AND on the technical (robot build and related topics). The two functions will normally meet on different nights, though we may occasionally have brief meetings of one before or after the other when it's convenient. The leaders on both sides will wear equal "rank insignia" on their uniforms at competition. (Yes, we do this: single bars for lieutenants, double bars for department captains, mentors wear FRC mentor pins, lettered varsity and lead mentors add the letter pin, and we may come up with some way to represent the people who've won intra-team awards.)
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