team 233 (aka the
PINK team) has a pretty decent guy to girl ratio. i'm not sure of the exact figures, but its pretty close to 50:50. the girls do so much for our team, if i do say so myself. Those of you who saw the girls painted pink at the 2004 UCF regional (yeah i was one of them) but thats not all we girls do! sure we females are there for spirit (boys paint themselves pink too!), but a lot of us helped with building the robot, our practice playing field, scouting, etc. We've got 2 girls in Pit crew... one is our lovely Tool Girl, who does a very nice job i might add (shes a sophmore), and out pit cheif (who is a junior) is also a girl, and its even her first year on the team! a lot of girls tried out for human player and driver too. we girls help a lot with design and things like that, and i mean, seriously, our team color is PINK. you all just KNOW that had some female influence.
there were also three girls, including myself, who worked on our admission for chairmans award (yours truely was the project manager), and i also helped with making the little pink team trading cards we have.. good luck if any of you can find them. lol i'm also the team 'seamstress'... i made a flag and button banners.... anyways, i'm living proof of the "little sister factor".. i got interested in robotics because of my brother (hes the arm operator for our robot this year!). the girls have been welcomed and accepted to the group, and its just like a great big family! ^_^ (i've even become an adopted little sister by some of my teammates lol) but yeah anyways, girls on team 233 arent just there to just stand around and look cute, we have some major imput to our team and are every bit as valuable as the boys!