I think having women in FIRST is very important. I know on my team, 1676, there are only 4 girls. Last year one of our female members graduated, but this year we got two new girls. All the girls on our team work hard alongside with the boys. From my experiences I would say that girls like to use the big power tools, but just don't know how to use them
Luckily for me, the only freshman girl on the team, a senior on the team kind of took me under his wing and taught me how to use some of the tools, such as the drill press and band saw. For me it was an extremely exciting time because I had always wanted to use the big tools, and had dreamed of learning when I joined the team.
Also FIRST really inspired me to get more involved with science and technology. Since joining my interest has skyrocketed! I join Science League
and next year I'm even dropping my lunch so I can take another science class. I hope that other women see how much fun and how exciting FIRST really is and decide to join as well because in the fields FIRST deals with women are definetly undermanned (or should i say womanned
)
All I really know though is that I am a woman in FIRST and I am extremely proud to be in it!!