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Re: Discussion on All-Girl events
Check out this FIRST Strategic Pillards posted today:
http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...is-first-going
Increase Diversity is one of the pillards which coincides with our topic of All-Girl events very well.
From the blog:
"We also know that the demographics of FIRST participants do not fully look like the communities we serve. With approximately 30 percent female participants in our Programs overall, we are underrepresented in young women, as well as people of color and kids from lower-income families. I am proud to say that FIRST demographics are quite a bit better than the tech workforce overall, but we still have a ways to go to mirror our communities.
Why is this important? If you believe, like I do, that FIRST programs are real game changers for kids, opening them to a world of opportunity and enabling them to become the critical innovators and problem solvers of tomorrow, then shouldn’t every kid have access to these Programs? ..."
- John
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2015 FIRST Championship Tesla Division quarterfinalist
Last edited by JohnTu : 21-07-2016 at 17:43.
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