[bethMonster]

please, don't attack kaelia! i know, i find it hard not to sometimes myself... if i durst, i think what she means it that we've noticed a lot of girls at competitions wearing cheerleading skirts and who are completely in the dark about what goes on in their team. we are not trying to cast doubt on the validity of fundraising, bookkeeping, or other robotics team responsibilities, but we couldn't help but notice girls in those positions in disproportionately high numbers, and those who do mechanical work, or, even more importantly, have a good mechanical understanding of their robot, are disproportionately underrepresented. we don't mean to accuse any specific teams. Rather, we just want to encourage other girls to fill any role they choose. Frankly, no one on our team can imagine choosing bookkeeping over getting covered with delrin dust or aluminum shavings while dremeling or bandsawing or something.

To answer the question i neglected earlier:
Kaelia and i think two other girls worked on controls, with two male mentors.
I and i think three other girls worked on drive train with one male mentor and one female mentor
two or three girls worked on suction cup (later becoming foot) with one male mentor
three or four girls worked on wings and sail with one male mentor and one female mentor
one girl worked on integration, bookkeeping, and other paperwork with one male mentor helping her out.
six girls worked on animation with one female mentor.
all girls besides animation worked in the machine shop. there was a lot of crossover between design teams, so almost every girl knows almost every function of the robot to some extent of detail. (with the exception again of animation. they sort of kept to themselves)

sorry i neglected that.