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Originally Posted by CraigHickman
I really find this idea interesting. But to ask a question... Do you ever do a "Leave the Girls at home" trip? I realize it's a nice idea to support affirmative action, but in order to truly promote balance and equality, you need to apply both...
By celebrating differences, and requiring an administrative level action to bring girls into the experience, you're acknowledging the differences, and conditioning the youth that affirmative action is the way that they'll move forward. I realize this topic has been beaten to death in last year's iteration of this, but I really can't stop myself from asking.
So was there a male only trip? And if not, why?
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Well if you think about when men and mechanics are together they are like one. Most of the time the girls want to be involved but are shy and don’t want to ask a male team member to show them how to do something. Team 842's normal driver is a male. By only taking the female team members it puts the responsibility on the girls. It's a learning experience for the girls because they can’t depend on the boys they have to figure it out and learn to fix it. It’s putting science and technology into the minds of females. Its hard for a female to survive in a mans robotics world. We are not trying to change the whole computation just get girls more involved.
