[HPA_Robotics_13]

HPA Robotics currently has 4 female team members, if you count the student that is our videographer. Of the 3 students on our team who are currently doing their 3rd or 4th year of FIRST, 2 are girls (I am the third). One of the two is both our lead electrical engineer and software engineer, the other dabbles in a bit of everything, seems to prefer mechanical work, and is potentially next year's replacement for my position as team captain. The 4th female team member is a junior new to our school this year, who was on a FIRST robotics team as a sophomore. She is on our programming team and also helps out a lot with both electrical and mechanical.

Our team essentially has 5 or 6 students who have the experience and maturity to actually make decisions and solve the hard problems, the rest of the team is new to FIRST. They still need to learn, and want to be told what to do. Of those 5-6 lead students, 3 are female.

I haven't read any of this thread (it's too long!), but from my team's point of view, FIRST is definitely not male-dominated. In fact, I'd say in that in the high school world, FIRST is one of the few places that sexual equality is easily proven.