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

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Originally Posted by eagle33199

Clearly you've never worked with an all girls team

You are correct... I find that tends to be true for all male students. However, I will admit that I have never worked with an all boys team either.

Originally Posted by eagle33199

You don't avoid any disagreements by being in an all girls or all boys team. Working with my team, I've come to see that it really doesn't matter what the make up of the team is - same gender, mixed gender, same ethnicity, mixed ethnicity, whatever. In the end, it's all about the engineering process. Sex and ethnicity of your coworkers simply doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what they are capable of doing, and you judge that on an individual basis. If you are finding major disagreements arising from working with a mixed group, then your group really isn't getting it. They aren't focused on the important aspects of FIRST.

I understand what you are saying, It is true that anytime you get 2 or more people working together their is potential for a conflict. I suppose that while you may have more conflict and learning experience in a more diverse team, there is still plenty to disagree about and plenty of chances to learn how to deal with such situations.

however, I still do not completely support exclusive teams. As, the people being excluded are missing out on the learning experience simply because of their demographic. So I would like to ask, is it common for exclusive teams to help mentor, ore even start co-ed teams?