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Originally posted by Gadget470
I think the impact of females is being underestimated. The machinst girls are good at what they do. The PR girls are good at what they do. Same as with the guys.
Whether they are electricians, machinists, number crunchers, or "just do PR" (as has been said) there is still strong impact.
I wouldn't be on my current team if it wasn't for one of the PR girls, and I don't think we could have won Engineering Inspiration at GLR if it weren't for the many projects she and the other girls that did PR did.
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I agree.
Our TIG welder is responsible for getting the most girls to the team. They don't know they'd be interested. After the fact we find that some of the them have a knack for the "dirty work" they didn't know they had.
We won Engineering Inspiration Award in Phoenix because we have a weekly open house that's been featured in AOL Digital City as #3 pick for Kids and Family in LA. When the public drops in they see the 2003 Animation of the game, the 2001 video of our national championship, our storyboards, our straw and cardboard drive train prototype, our 2001 championship robot, the kids ride on the goal the robot can grab, kids and adults drive the robot. People from as far as an hour away came. I can still hear the father, "This trip was SO worth it!"
Tiffany, public relations, is in particular excellent at PR, talking at all our exhibitions. I remember Veronica surprising all of us talking easily to the public at the TRW Open House (@1000 employees and their families) touring a room about our program.
Our painter, Breanne, is in particular undervalued. Some on the team say, "why spend all that time". She's not undervalued to me. She painted our
facilities cupboards ,
her designs are on our tool cupboards , all sides and top of
our crate .
Everytime her painting brightens my spirit, teaches others, current, and new team members who we are (surfing was introduced to US in Redondo, 2 rival teams on one robotics' team).