Discussion on All-Girl events

[Tyler Olds]

I'm not going to read through all the comments on here but here's the process and feedback from my team's experience from last year:

One of my female students saw the post for Indy-Rage last year and after telling other girls on the team who became interested they practically begged me to go.

Girls who attended the event overwhelmingly had a blast being able to drive/operate/participate in a lead role and mentored first year female students attending to get them comfortable in the environment. The response from the seminars was "meh" but they said they absolutely want to go back next year.

This year we had our first female driver/operator in our teams history and had a very close bid for another female. Previous years our driver try-outs has never been close to a female student earning their spot. We also had a much higher percentage of our female students in lead roles including both of our student leads being female and a higher percentage of females in the pits. Is this 100% due to Indy-Rage? Of course not but I do believe that this sparked some motivation for my female students to take it upon themselves to step up and strive to assert themselves as equals in our program.

Make whatever opinions and observations you want from my post All that I care about is that my female students benefited from the experience and want to go back. Because of this I would like to thank Indy-Rage for providing this opportunity.