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Originally Posted by Jay H 237
When you are demonstating your robot at different events it's good to have some of the girls on your team there. QUOTE]
I dunno maybe I am looking at this wrong and if so pleas correct me but couldn't that be portrayed as a bit shovanistic that you parade your female memebers around just so you can increase your numbers on the team? I am not saying lock them up in a room so people don't know you have female memebers, just to specifically bring female memebers to events to increase your numbers seems wrong to me. They should be dealt with as if any other person and not specifically do a certain taks based on there gender... or am I just reading WAY to into this?
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I think you're looking at it the wrong way. I'm sorry if my post came off that way to you. My idea isn't to parade the females around as models for our robot or the team for that matter. The fact is there ARE females interested in careers in the science/technical industry. The fact is SOME females are reluctant/hesitant to talk to, let alone join the team when all they see is males on the team thinking they won't be accepted or allowed to join. When they see other females on the team they realize that they could join also and that we don't discriminate against them. When they find out that some of our female members machine, program, assemble, wire and drive the robot they realize that they could do that also and start pursuing thier interest in science and technology. It's unfortunate, even in these days, but some people ARE still sexist and don't feel females should be doing (or can't do) machining, programing, wiring, ect.
Just remember the idea of FIRST (other than GP) is to allow ANYONE thier interest in pursuit of a career in the science and technology fields.