In the medical profession, tremendous progress has been made since 1950s to increase female medical students from 5.5% to 47%.
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In engineering, we still have a long way to go.
Team 226 Hammerheads is very appreciative that our near by FRC teams 2834, 469, 33 and 68 have been hosting their annual Bloomfield Girls Robotics Competition in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. As we participated in the competition these past two years, we have seen a 50% increase of our female students from 32 to 48 (We have about 75 male students). Of our 20 leadership positions, 10 are held by girls including the Engineering VP.
I believe these girls-only competition events definitely have helped to interest more girls to join a robotics team and hopefully a career in STEM!
- John