[kristinweiss]

Another thing that I have noticed is that after high school, the number of females that stay involved, either by mentoring or by volunteering, significantly decreases. It is especially apparent at competitions, particularly within the alumni group that comes back to volunteer at events, where I often find myself being the only girl or one of only two or three girls with a group of over a dozen guys, but that could just be a local thing. It's not something that has ever particularly bothered me, but I've always found it funny how hard of a push there is to get more girls involved in FIRST, but as soon as they graduate they leave.