We took about 8 girls to Atlanta last year. I'm excited to see the numbers for this year. We have at least 3 new students thanks to one of the girls on our team. She basically bothered her friends all year to join, and they've stayed so far!
Danielle even wants to learn how to wire the robot, and she's the head of our media committee. Chrissi is the head of our spirit committee and Sarah is the head of our Records & Business committee. Carli (who I hope will be back on our team soon!) is the head of our Fundraising/Events Planning Committee. So who says girls aren't essential to a team? 1089's girls are!
I agree with Mike. Our girls prefer to do the spirit, media, marketing stuff, but we do make sure to include them in building if they want to be involved. The best part about our team is we strive to let everyone have an opinion. This year we divided up into four groups to strategize and start brainstorming our robot design, the girls had the most to say.