[221Sarahborg]

Interacting with girls is a big point of it all I noticed. For a few years I've brought our robots to the Girl Scout Day Camp I work at where my name is actually Robot along with another girl from marketing who goes by Pluto. The older girls (4-6th grade) get to spend the night and we go in the morning. We only bring girls including the mentor to strengthen that as well and we set up, talk about what we do, our time restraints, where we're from, etc. etc. Even though they're way too young to join the team there's still FTC and FLL. Parents are there and teen staff that I work with also see it. I was surprised how many people approached me about the presentation afterwards (kids, teens, and adults!). Just getting out there and talking to girls (if not boys and girls equally) then it gets them interested even if it's in the long run.

Supporting girls is an important thing. By showing up with just girls from a robotics team and telling them that they can build something like what we bring in just 6 weeks is really empowering. I also run the only STEM based program on camp, and I could not believe the support I got from everyone and how much they want to push it.