Are all girl FIRST team counterproductive to the philosophy of FIRST?

[CallieJ]

Originally Posted by Phcullen

Again I would like to state that I do not include teams based out of already exclusive groups like schools and scouts.

Just out of curiosity-- are there many all-female teams that are not based out of a school or Girl Scouts?

Those are the only two groups I have ever run into that support all-girls teams, and the only Girl Scout team I've ever met is our own (I know there was another Girl Scout FRC team in Austin on 2009 and 2010 but I don't think they're operational this year).

If so, are these teams more common in other parts of the country? Does anyone have any reason why that might be? The last regional my team attended there were only 3 all-female teams out of ~55 teams, and two of those were from Catholic high schools (the other one was us).