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Unread 16-09-2002, 10:43
Amber H. Amber H. is offline
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Originally posted by TravisCarpenter
How to get more girls to join the team? Easy. Just tell em that Mandy Moore was at nationals last year

Really though, we just got about 10-15 girls that joined our team this year, and it is all from explaining what we do, showing them pictures of past competitions and especially closing ceremonies from the 2001 season... they seem to really like this and this

some of the girls that joined our team this year even are asking us to teach them how to use the tools and they want to help with the construction of the robot. Its still a wonder to me......
It's not such a wonder. We're out there, just to repressed to now that some of us might have a true calling in tech, etc.
I was an artsy theater, type. I spent years in training as a classical soprano. But let me tell you, I was constantly finding myself hanging around with the stage crew because I had this really overactive sense of curiosity about how everything worked.
I just had to know. (it actually got in the way of my singing career sometimes because I would rather have worked on the nuts and bolts, so to speak.)

I was always interested in how things worked and still am. It's shocking to think that even as recently as the mid-80's when I was in High school, I was still being told, "No, no, no, dear. You can't do that. It's a man's job."
Oh I was sooo angry! (still am sometimes)

I defied everyone. I went out and learned how to do all the tech jobs at the theater and got hired on professionally, but even then, I was always relegated to the housekeeping jobs (even after two years) because I was a girl. "Hey girls are better at it than us! You're the best one suited for the scrubbing." They would say.
I would leave the room and hear them snickering behind the door.

I finally quit after two years of being treated like garbage by my male counterparts. I never once got to do anything on a show other than set up the house, and clean up afterward.

I'm not saying all of this to whine. I'm just saying that there are girls out there with hidden talent that don't know they have it. When they come around, be patient and give them a chance to discover if they have the knack for the mechanics etc. You could change thier lives so much for the better, I can't even begin to tell you.
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