I am lucky enough to have two very assertive girls on a six member team one of whom is a state beauty pageant winner. Both girls are excellent team members, true contributors (safety, pneumatics, "build team", initial wiring, design concepts) and future leaders of the team.
Our resident state beauty champ desires to be an example for young girls wanting to enter a male dominated field. Her attitude towards robotics is "Beauty, brains and talent"!
She often speaks of working with our State Legislature to have robotics recognized as a sport rather than a club and will probably get a bill passed to that effect (did I mention she is very assertive?)
I feel the FRC would benefit from a recognizing a young woman like her. She is the finest example of young women in robotics and an awesome representative of the sport!