We have 13 girls, 9 guys.. students that is - and teachers we have 4 female, and like 6 male. Of the 13 girls, 9 are primarily on PR, although we do see most of them from time to time while we're working on the robot.. the other 4 girls are on both PR and Engineering, -- im lucky enough to be in this group, it's insane when you spend that many hours working on the robot and then any remote spare hours you may have are spent with PR, and then there's always the meetings that cause scheduling conflicts.. I love it that way! And 8 of our guys are solely on engineering, we have 1 who helped PR with the chairmans award
It works out well, everyone on our team is somehow involved in every committee a little, and the girls on our team are definately just as big of a part of the team as any of the others - so when people claim PR doesnt do anything, we just show them our chairmans award trophy :-) the neatest thing is that everyone on our team is somewhat involved in every part, and we all know how hard each faction works so there's a huge respect shared between all our team members, guys and girls, students and mentors...gender isnt a qualification for anything on our team, and i think thats how it should be~!
- jacqui, team 388