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Originally Posted by Monochron
While not involved in the actual building of the robot most of our girls exemplify the other aspects to a robotics team. Katie is currently the head of our Scrapbooking sub-team and continues to make fantastic documentations of our year. They work with talking to judges and organizing some community events.
While they are not actively involved in the robot itself they are almost solely responsible for our image and representation of our team (along with one other female mentor)
They don't find it demeaning when commented on, but also don't see their role (and neither do we) as really separate from the team or as if we have allowed them any opportunity. They simply saw what they wanted to do in our team and made it happen.
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Hmmm, sounds familiar (happened in my own life!) However, do you think they may gain an interest in building the robot if they were given the chance? Also, if they don't accept the offer... "encourage" them to get involved in some design aspects? Girls are not likely to argue with guys over design, they want to help out where they can, but think... they joined a ROBOTICS team. They are already so close, don't let them miss out on the chance to discover themselves.
Not picking on you specfically, see my posts in the other thread. As a "marketing/program" girl in FIRST for five years, only now discovering that robot design and machining is fun and my design ideas are original and worth something... my new purpose is to make sure the girls on FIRST teams also get the chance to be inspired, and don't sell themselves short like many women in this world do.