Thread: Girls on Teams
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Re: Girls on Teams
MOE 365 has 32 students and 11 of them are girls. The breakdown...

Mechanical - 6: Kirsten, Lan, Ashli, Cassandra, Erin, Shannon
Electrical - 2: Bethany, Ilana
Programming - 2: Laura, Mercedes
Web - 1: Rai (Webmaster)

I am pleased to say that we have very capable young women on our team. This was not always the case. As was stated previously here, it takes work to create an environment where women can thrive on en engineering project.

We have two women technical mentors - Lucie and Kirstin, and a number of non-technical female mentors. It is very important to have role models for the female students to go to if they are feeling underappreciated or under utilized in the robot build aspects of the team.

I am glad to hear the comments of the growth of the number of women on established and new FIRST teams. And hats off to the all-female teams. We know you are as competitive and capable as any team out there!

To all, good luck getting that bot in the box and in your upcoming competition season.
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