Hi my name is Mabel Munoz and i am one of the lucky girls that got to participate in the San Diego Regional. Before the competition i didn't find anything strange with the "all girls team". We just wanted to do the same jobs as the guys. Not that we don't have the same opportunities but we tend to let the guys do "the man jobs". Once we got there we started to notice that people looked at us like outsiders. It was uncomfortable but we didn't care because we were enjoying working with the robot and doing the jobs we thought were hard. After the regional our team learned a lot. We learned that people aren't used to seeing girls doing what guys normally do, they just needed to be exposed to the "change". We are more united in the way that now we, the girls, step up to help the guys do the job. After all it wasn't as hard as we thought we just needed that little push to help us see that.
