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Re: Why is it that not many girls are into robotics?

Here's a mechanical engineering student from RPI's perspective of women engineers. RPI is a prodominantly engineering school with 81% male occupancy. This has forever been an issue at the Institute, but has been battled by campaigns to bring more women to this fine school. As far as my team is concerned... Of 18 college mentors, 2 of them are women, and they are among the hardest working, and well versed members of our team. One of them, Erin is a TA at the student machine shop on campus and is always answering questions like "how the heck do i fit this blasted thing on the lathe" or "Is it bad if i'm drill pressing something without the proper clamp, and it picks the piece up starts spinning it in really fast circles?" The other, Lesli has been vital in designing AND fabricating of the gear boxes and telescoping arm system. Both of them are huge assets to the team. All jokes aside (even though i did laugh a little at the shopping sub team joke) The drawing board, and the machine shop can't tell the sex of the operator. I've never seen something that a woman has asked a man to do in any part of this project (except for short little Erin not being tall enough to reach the top of the vertical mill.... ). Women add a lot to our team, and we are happy to have them around.
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