Girls on Teams

[O.S.S. King]

3/43 are girls on our team. One of them is on the animation team and the other two are on the build team. We have been trying to recruit more girls the past few years. Any suggestions??

[Karibou]

Wow, I forgot about this thread. It's been awhile.

Originally Posted by O.S.S. King

3/43 are girls on our team. One of them is on the animation team and the other two are on the build team. We have been trying to recruit more girls the past few years. Any suggestions??

Treat them the same way you would treat guys on your team (alright, there are some things you may not want to talk about around them until you get to know them better, but you know what I mean). Try and include them in whatever is happening; encourage them to take part in team activities. Don't just leave them to fend for themselves. It can be really intimidating trying to fit in with guys sometimes, especially for freshmen.

[dag0620]

Maybe it's just me, but this whole distiction of guys and girls doesn't really happen over on 1071.

While we do have a 60/40 Male/Female ratio, it's still well intergrated. We have girls in all of our Major 3 departments, (Machinasits, Programming/Electrical, and Public Relations). To be honest there just like one of the team, and they generally are just as active as the guys.

[FrankJ]

Two of our Chairman's presenters are young women. Our drive team coach is a women. Next years head programmer might be a women, but she has keen competition if you look at that way. A number of the build team are women. As a group I cannot say if they are better or worse than the men on the team. Say what you want about groups, but at the end of the day you work with individuals.

There are 29 students on our team. 11 are girls.

Most of the girls on the team do spirit, but there are a few exceptions. One of our two captains is a girl, works on chairmans and build, and is also pit captain (she's also going to college for mechanical engineering). One of our electricians is a girl and she's also our treasurer and secretary. Another girl on our team is co-captain and works on chairmans, fundraising, and PR. I'm a girl and I'm a programmer (the first and only girl programmer on the team).

If you look at all the girls on our team, only 3 do engineering-type work. That's a little disapointing when you notice that about every single guy on our team works on the robot at some point and there are 18 guys on the team. Our drive team hasn't had a girl on it since 2010 (and no girls tried out for driver this year). Our school offers a varsity letter in robotics and I'm sad to say that I'm probably the only girl on the team who will get a varsity letter this year.

Yes, I do understand that not everything is about the robot, but isn't our goal to get more students involved in engineering?