I'm the only girl on a currently 8 member team. For my freshman and sophomore years, I worked as just scouting lead and tried to participate in robot-building, but didn't do much because of other team issues. Last year, I was scouting lead again, but also worked heavily with the electrical and programming sub-teams and I loved being able to know what was actually going on with the robot.
This year I applied and was accepted to be business lead, even though robot-building is more of my passion, simply because the boys won't do it themselves and someone has to take responsibility for, you know, sponsorship, since the team does *GASP* need money to function.
I'm focusing on business off-season, so I can continue to work with the electrical and programming teams because I refuse to give up working on the robot after waiting years to be able to do so. I'm also hoping to be teaching the guys how to work with and keep sponsors or get some of our school's DECA/ marketing students involved, so the robot people (aka me) don't have to give up building the robot to market.
Here's to hoping I'll still get to work on the robot this season.
