[Dan Zollman]

Though this is our FIRST team's first year, the team is part of the larger Lower Merion Technology and Engineering Club. This is the fourth year of the club's existence.
In the first three years of the Tech & Eng Club, the president was a girl. We also had up to three other girls in the club in any one of those years. The club started with around ten people, and last year it went up to 40 or 50.
This year, the club's numbers suddenly rocketed up to over 100 and became the second biggest school organization (about 6% of the school's population). We're not sure why, but it's partly because of a) the large incoming freshman class, and b) the recently started TSA team in the middle school from which some of our freshman members come. This doesn't explain why the increase was so large.
The point is that we also have about 25 girls in the larger club, some of which are on the FIRST team. This is a jump from 2 to 25, while the overall club went from under 40 to above 100.
In short, yes, we have a lot more girls in the club this year.