[London D]

On Texas Torque, a team of approximately 40-50 active members, we have a nearly 50/50 gender ratio, something that we have worked hard towards and continue to recruit both guys and girls to the team constantly.

At least for the time that I've been on the team, the leadership genders are split fairly evenly. We've had both male and female team captains, along with build being fairly split as well as the business side of the team having both male and female leadership. This, I believe, stems from the team being based out of a science and technology high school, so both genders are evenly and fairly represented within the school and both have a passion for STEM.

This year, the president and vice-president are both female, and while the vice-president also precedes over build, the rest of build leadership is male. We are also looking at a fairly heavily female dominated business side of the team, but that stems from the strengths that people show versus them being pushed towards those roles.

While I would say that our team is extremely well rounded in both genders being fairly represented on leadership (based purely off of skill, talent, and dedication rather than "filling a quota") one interesting split that we have is in drive team. This past year, I was the first girl on drive team since 2013, and I'm curious as to the genders of the drivers before even then.

Overall I believe that 1477 is very well rounded and every student on the team is just as passionate about the program as the next. I hope to continue to push and lead my fellow students to the positions of leadership that fit them the best, so that they succeed in whichever field they work best in, and that their gender has no bearing on that.