Girls on Teams

[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.

[Nikki Haux]

Originally Posted by Brian Ha

We support girls on our team, but they like talking more haha

First off, I really can't tell if you're kidding or not.

Our team has got a lot more girls on the team in the last few years, but I have to agree they (yes, I'll say they), do like to talk a lot.
We have 12 girls of 25 kids on the team. It's about 50/50 girls who work and girls who talk. Some of us work in the shop, but some do work on business etc.

[Akash Rastogi]

We have girls on 3929 that I can honestly say have been more committed on the mechanical front than some of our guys. And they are freshmen!

We are very happy about this.

[Reanna]

Fembots are an all girls team as well!

[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?

[gixxy]

I want to say we have 8-12 girls, about 45 total. There are 2-3 who are on Mechanical team.

Our Marketing and Literature team are nearly entirely girls. Without them on the team I don't know where we would be.

[tsaksa]

The team I mentor does have less than a 50% Female to Male ratio, but it is not so far off that mix that the the women that we do have seem at all out of place (at least to me). The women on our team also seem fairly well distributed in interests and capabilities. We have female students doing CAD/design, fabrication, electrical, programming, marketing, etc. They also do not just hold "entry level" positions, and represent a significant portion of our sub-team and organizational leads. They also seem comfortable making their opinions known at meetings and generally seem well respected for their work.

In fact, if it were not for this thread, I do not think I would have bothered to even consider any differences between the male and female team members. There are much greater differences between individual team members of either sex that anything I can see between either group when taken as a whole.

[johnmaguire2013]

I don't really see a distinction on our team. Members are free to choose what they want to work on and can even switch around throughout the season simply by seeking out jobs in other areas. Really, there's always work to be done and whoever wants to can, male or female.

[Team 3705]

In our build team, we have 2 dedicated girls working. We also have a marketing team with 4 girls and some guys. The lead for marketing and our controls is a girl.

[dictionaria13]

We have almost as many girls as guys. I do a lot of fine wiring (the mentors say I'm the best at it), one of our team co-captains/go-to people is a girl (we love you, Karina!!), our safety captain is a girl, plus various other all-purpose female team members who do whatever is needed at the time. I can't imagine being relegated to cheerleader just because I have a second X-chromosome.

[Shelbers2486]

13 of the 33 members of our team, 2486, are female. Along with this we have several technical and non-technical female mentors. Girls on our team have roles in every aspect, but more specifically, one girl is our secretary, one our teasurer, one our non-technical president, and me, our head builder. I would say that girls really have a role in everything on our team.

[Jon Stratis]

18/18 members on our team are female. 2/6 mentors with the team are female.

I guess coming from a small all girls school, that first number isn't all that surprising

[ClearlyClare]

4 girls out of 28 (and I'm one if them!)

This is our third year and I was originally the only girl on the team. I am the marketing lead, one does a lot of essay work and other random PR. Another works half with me and half with the robot and the last girl this year is in charge of ALL the electronics. She's co-captain and will most likely be captain next year.

(And, honestly, if I had signed up to be captain this year, I believe I would've gotten it, but I already do too many things haha)

GO GIRLS!!!