[Clem1640]

We generally have 30-50% girls on our team. We've been fortunate in attracting some very driven and enthusiastic girls. Student leadership is merit-based and the team has always had girls and women in key leadership positions. Some examples:

2 of our current drive team members are girls

1 of our 2 current co-captains is a girl

Our current scouting lead is a girl

For 4 years (ending 2014), our pit captain and lead mechanical student was a girl.

For 4 years (ending 2014), our drive team coach was a young woman

Our 2015 robot chassis (and many earlier ones) was welded by a girl

One of our 3 current lead programmers is a girl

Having girls and women in leadership positions on the team has, I think, made it easier for girls coming on to the team to step into leading positions themselves.

It has also helped make us a better team; it's hard to get the best person possible to perform a job if you effectively eliminate half the population (why would you do this?).