Engaging women in FIRST

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Originally Posted by Taylor1023

Our team has tried several programs to get more girls involved in FIRST.

Probably the most successful way that I've seen is starting girls in robotics in elementary school. We had a few all girl or mostly girl FLL and JFLL teams last year. I started robotics when I was ten and have followed FIRST from FLL to FTC to FRC. This year we're considering doing a sort of "summer camp" and hopefully we'll have a nice turnout of girls.

Excellent point. And I do know that our team needs to do more outreach. We are lucky to have several female students right now that make excellent role models. It would be a shame not to take advantage of that.