Girls on Teams

[alextried]

Our team is roughly 50% girls (about 60 members). We're involved in pretty much everything on this team. We have had/still have female captains, pit crew members, safety captains, scout leads and more at competitions. During build season, we probably have the least amount of girls in PR, and most are in engineering and programming. My team has a really good balance with kids right now.

[garyk]

In my 11 years as an FRC mentor, I've been associated with three teams that have had young women as captains - 972, 2643, 3256.

[planetbrilliant]

We have roughly 4 girls on our team (of roughly 25 ish kids) and we're aiming to fix this i promise (we have a significant number of freshman hopefully joining our team)
In the past we haven't been that great regarding female team members, most of us were kind of pushed toward pr and spirit and marketing even if we wanted to work on the programming or robot itself. It didn't help that for our first two years a group of 3 people did most of the work on the robot and didn't like or want other people trying to work on it.
We had some issues.
This year however, the member(s) encouraging this kind of behavior have graduated. Our team captain this year is going to be a girl who has been with us since the start and she's ensuring that everyone, especially the members who have been pushed toward the background, get to do what they've wanted to do all along.

[SoulianPride]

We are roughly 58% (out of about 30) girls at this time with most of our girls involved with working on mechanical, CAD, or electrical. Everyone is required to work on the robot, though a few of our girls prefer to keep their work there to a minimum and work on business which we see as completely since since it's their choice.

[cjl2625]

Hmm... From my memory, this past year, we had 2 female seniors, no female juniors, no female sophomores, and about 4 female freshmen.
They aren't really involved directly with the robot, more so with scouting and whatnot.
Our team has around 50 members total.

[JohnTu]

44 of 115 Team 226 members are girls. They are involved in all aspect of our team and is 45% of our leadership including Engineering VP, Information VP, and Engineering Design & Strategy Team Leader. We took a photo of some of them today showing #ILookLikeAnEngineer. John

[GennyK]

This year I believe the it is about 16 out of 55 team members are girls.
A lot of the girls are on either chairman's team or control systems team. I am the only girl out of twenty five people on out design and mechanical team. Three years I was one of out teams safety captains but I also helped with machining, designing, wiring and really anything that needed to get done.

[tab1a]

We have about 10 girls on a team of 35 but over 2/3 of the leadership positions are manned (or womanned?) by girls.

Team Captain: 1
Mechanics: 3
Programming: 1
Business: 5

Note: I'm not counting those girls that are super new members, or come irregularly.

Something to think about with a lot of girls doing PR or business related stuff is that people tend to be drawn more to what their friends are doing. And in my experience, a lot of girls are friends with mostly girls, and the same goes for boys. 90% of the boys on my team do something other than business while only 50% of girls do. When I joined, a girl I was friends with was doing business, so I did too. When my (female) friends joined most of them decided to do business also; it's more comfortable to work with people you know. New male members already know team members from outside of school and will then join whatever it is they are doing: which is mechanical or programming.

I do wish that someone had pushed me out of my comfort zone when I first joined, so that I could've tried some teams outside of business even though I've grown to really enjoy it. Honestly, I think the best way to address gender divisions is to really encourage girls to do things they aren't really traditionally expected to do or think they're not smart enough for, even if their friends aren't doing that.

[Hgree56]

Our team is pretty small with about 20-25 students wanting to be on the team. We have 4 girls. One of them is a PR student by her choice, the others are all Build team. Two of them will more than likely be Drive Team or Backup Drive team this year and the third is moving before Kickoff and will no longer be on the team.

[marshall]

We have close to 100 students on our team with about a 60/40 split for guys and girls. We also have some students who identify as transgender. What is interesting is that consistently, year after year, the girls log more hours than the guys. The girls put in almost twice the number of hours to the guys last year.

I try to seek out opinions from all of our students on how we can improve and one of the things they keep telling me is to continue to foster an environment where everyone is welcome. We're always looking to improve but we seem to be doing a pretty good job of it based on their feedback.

[natejo99]

Our team has about 20-25 students, with about 9 girls. Most of them are in marketing, but 2 of them are in build and pit crew, and one of them is our team captain.

[Anxiolytix]

I believe we have half girls and half guys on our team. I am a female and am Electronics team captain. The girls are very active on our team. Many of them are on business team, but there are quite a few on the technical side of things!

EDIT: and one of our two team captains is a girl!

[WynS]

We have about 30% girls on our team. They do everything and anything they want. This year, we have 4 team captains and they are all girls. We don't divide people up into teams at the beginning of the season so everyone can work on whatever needs doing. This past summer a group of three girls were the mainstays in our summer robot project that ended up on the winning alliance at Chezy Champs. Our intake wheels for that robot were 3D printed and molded by an incoming freshman girl.

[eschaublinFF]

We would love more girls on our team! With that said:

Of the 8 girls on the Foley Freeze - Team 910 Robotics team (25% of the team is made up of girls), we had 1 media/photographer, 1 Business/Documentation lead and the remaining 6 were on Build or Prototype. 2 were subteam leads. 3 were new freshman. The subteam prototype lead was also our spirit lead.

[3175leheh]

We have 13 girls on a 21 person team, and they are 3/4 of our drive team, our lead programmer, our two electronics people, our chairman's team, our safety team, and two of our build team captains, as well as many of our build team members.