girls ?

[Marc P.]

We have a few underclassman girls that are better on the milling machine than most of the guys on our team. They also chop, drill, measure, assemble, and do virtually everything else in the shop at or above the level of the guys.

[JVN]

Originally posted by Amy Lynn
Well i'm going to speak on behalf of the girls from my team and say, all two of us high school girls are fairly active in our team, and we are the first to jump to the work... no offence to the high school guys on our team... Anyone else from 229 wanna back us girls up??

You two are some of the most enthusiastic, and hard working students I've seen on our team. I wish we had 10 more like you!

It's not quanitity, it's quality

[cammie825]

yeah, we have girls...
Although, we really don't have a clue most of the time. For the most part, I stick to my computer over in the corner, and at times, help out with some electrical work. And sometimes, they do try to make us into "administrative assistants". I guess I can't blame them, I am a bit mechanically illiterate. (stereotypical girl... haha)

As for the cheerleader comment, I resent that. In the end, I WILL be a cheerleader, but, it doesn't matter. Our teams need the support, and it could be worse!

okay, thought I would defend that!!

[Tyler Olds]

Originally posted by Katie Reynolds
We have four females on our team. Not one of them just does PR/clerical/"cheerleading". One girl is the lead of our programming team. One girl (me!) is the lead of our electrical team. One girl devotes her life to drive, and the other does animations. And every girl knows how to use the shop (though you'll usually only find ChellyZee in there.) All four of us are also part of the Tesla Engineering Charter School, which rocks! At the start of the season, we had eight girls ... but a lot of them dropped for various reasons. Oh well.

- Katie

/me Looks back into his credits list........... we have a girl on animations?

Originally posted by Katie Reynolds
Cory, I love you! We've had problems with this in the past ... some guys on our team are always saying, "Man, I wish we had some hot girls on our team!" Or "Oh man, I wish she was on our team - we need some hot girls!" From my (and the rest of the girls on my team) standpoint ... it really hurts. Sure, the girls on my team might not be the most beautiful things that ever walked the planet ... but we've got brains. And kick*ss personalities! Doesn't that count for something? I don't mean to carry on about this, but I think this is something that affects a lot of girls involved in FIRST ... and it kind of sucks.

virusmirusne - I'm sure you were just trying to lighten the mood. I'm not trying to rip on you in any way, shape or form. But this does come up a lot with my team, and it really does hurt.

With that said, I'm gone.

- Katie

As a guy. I think that just some people aren't....very good with their comments. TO be honest, I wish we had a few more girls on the team, especially in direct construction of the robot. But it just so happens that the girls on our team are rather nice and pretty.
*I won't say hot for fear of backlash*

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Butcher93
/me Looks back into his credits list........... we have a girl on animations?

We did. Yeah ... she kind of stopped coming. Now we're back down to three.

- Katie

[Tyler Olds]

Originally posted by chellyzee93
I don't know what the boys/mentors would do without us. Sometimes I feel like a mom. Kt makes sure that all of the management is taken care of, she's great at fixing things, and rocks your socks off in electrical.

I work with all of the groups so that I know what is going on, because of this i'm good at utilizing every member on our team because I always have something for people to do. I work on that while walking in and out of the shop. Sure the drawings get a bit dirty, but hey we've got stuff to do. It's my job to make sure that the robot gets manufactured, kt has to make it work

I would have to say that the girls are a very important part of our team.

Yes very important, just as important as anybody else on the team, but they are NOT the entire team.

[Koko Ed]

Originally posted by Specialagentjim
Yeah yeah yeah, we've all seen the x-cats...

[JVN]

Originally posted by Koko Ed

Ed,
In some circles the X-Cats have a reputation for being a team made up largely of girls. Most teams who compete against them realize this. In a competition dominated by desperate guys, you can see how this thing would get around...

I remember last year in Cleveland I was looking for one of my drivers, and heard he was "at the pool with xcats in bikinis."

It's not necessarily a bad thing is it?

[Koko Ed]

Originally posted by JVN
Ed,
In some circles the X-Cats have a reputation for being a team made up largely of girls. Most teams who compete against them realize this. In a competition dominated by desperate guys, you can see how this thing would get around...

I remember last year in Cleveland I was looking for one of my drivers, and heard he was "at the pool with xcats in bikinis."

It's not necessarily a bad thing is it?

It is if you're a chaperone.

[unixfreak]

We have a total of 3 STUDENT girls. One is a college student, she works. The other 2 are PR, and dont do much fabrication if any. We have 3 female leaders also, but they do mostly "behind the scenes" work like fundraising and such. Our actual teachers are male.

[FRANK(WGH)]

well most might say that you don't see very many girls around the shop or power equipment but truth is there are many girls that do alot of work on our team for example 2 of our team members that are both girls have done aot of machine work for our team and the wheel hubs look real nice.

Thanks for all the hard work!!

[Biggs717]

Last year as some of you may already know, our team consisted of 14 girls and 8 boys...needless to say there are always girls doing things! this year we have cut that number down to only five due to all the seniors who graduated last year were girls...but the girls do have a big roll too!

[Katy]

I am fairly sure we have always had a girl captain and this is the first year there are more guys one core team than girls (this is our 4th year). We have six elected leadership positions four of which are girls. (This is our first year with this much structure to things to we are still working on how it all works.) I for one am one of the four and learning to weld steel...can do it but not well enough to be of real use yet (I will be learning Al soon hopefully). I do a little electronics a lot of design, did the crate with some help, and then just using the tools to cut the Al or whatever along the line to fit into the latest theoretically brilliant but realistically disastrous project. (I’m kidding, really we aren’t too awful about staying on earth). Most of us (both guys and girls) do a little of everything with the exception of programming and sometimes electronics as far as building goes (those two have their own little groups). We don't have a real machine room (save a little area with two drill presses a chop saw an old band saw a grinder and a few hand drills) but everybody can do most of those (some hamsters too). You could say we are the opposite of most teams, the guys do more of the specialty things such as organizing day to day things, keeping inventory, web page, programming (mostly) and electronics (mostly). Chairman’s is new…so it is just kinda mine for the moment. Regional stuff is another girl (also new…before it just magically happened with parents doing it) and fundraising is split between one guy and one girl (that’s new too, we lived off UW and NASA grants before.) Day to day…who cares really? The guy girl stuff only really comes up for us when it is time to book hotel rooms for regionals.

Our team has been fairly much controlled by girls a great deal (...somehow it wasn't the guy's idea that we spray their hair hot pink and put zip ties in it...) We were the team in hot pink and black last year that ran around with the toy hamsters that sang (Seattle regional). Personally I haven't found the whole "girls don't do that" or the girls must simply be decoration mentality inside FIRST in team kids or mentors. It is more common from outside…although sometimes people assume I don’t know what I am talking about until I prove it but honestly I think that is just because I’m terrible at explaining the little world in my head.

[Tytus Gerrish]

We have 4 girls on our team , and one studet (amanda) who's work is only seconded by Jared (fellow Driver) and myself