Girls on Teams

[Vince lau]

I'm mentoring an all girls school here in Toronto, in the Canadian regionals there will be 3 all girls schools competing

[Meredith Rice]

Originally Posted by Vince lau

I'm mentoring an all girls school here in Toronto, in the Canadian regionals there will be 3 all girls schools competing

What teams are they? I am always interested to learn what other all girl teams are out there, as I am from one myself, team 433. It would be nice though if there was some way to sort through all the FIRST teams to see what teams are all girls.

[Charley]

Our team (#1350... rookies this year) had 2 females out of about 17 students.

I am one of those females, and I must say that I do alot of speaking/ orginizing/ strategizing/ accounting on the team. This isn't because I'm a girl, just more because I have no building experience what so ever.

People on the team help each other, and I think I do my part to help out, though I'm not always sure if everyone else agrees.

They usually say I do the B**** work, because if no one else wants to do something, I will. I don't mind doing crappy little jobs, once again, because I don't really know how to do alot of building.

I learned alot of programming and electrical this year, and next year, by default of being an orginized Junior, I'm captain.

[Kaelia]

Glad to see this topic still kicking ^_^ I'm from the same team as the topic starter...I was approached by a scout from some team who was very surprised that our team put a girl in as high a position as a *gasp* driver! I kind of chuckled and told her that we didn't really have much say in the matter =P

On that note, though, I didn't notice very many female drivers (not counting human players or strategists) at VCU...head count?

[Vince lau]

Originally Posted by Fireboidsgrl

What teams are they? I am always interested to learn what other all girl teams are out there, as I am from one myself, team 433. It would be nice though if there was some way to sort through all the FIRST teams to see what teams are all girls.

Canadian all girls teams that i know of

771 - St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School
1275 - Havergal College
1291 - St. Clement's School

[JohnBoucher]

Team 237 has always had strong female leadership. It was an important element from the start. On this team, anyone can do anything.

[Aignam]

This year in the pits, two of the girls with initiative controlled Battery Crew. Both held jobs absolutely essential to the team's performace on the field. Both did absolutely wonderful jobs. I couldn't pick anyone on the team to do the job better.

[Joshua May]

We have 3 girls on our team out of 17. Two of our girls work mainly on PR, and the third (my sister) works with PR but stepped up greatly to work with machining, she has even earned the name 'Drillmaster'.

[Libby Ritchie]

We have a lot of girls on our team, though we have had many more in years past. However, I think a big part of that has to do with the fact that I am the team coordinator/leader and I'm female. The girls see that if I can run this team, they surely can contribute to the team and they have done very well.

I have a student team coordinator that is a girl (Stefanie Keffaber, 11th grade) and she has been a team leader for two years. She holds the highest ranking position for a student on the team as she oversees ALL of our sub-teams. (Sub teams include manufacturing, CAD, animation, chairmen's, and web) She is one of our best on the manufacturing team and has much influence, input, and actual build time on our robot.

In addition to Stef, we have four girls on the web team (on a team of five), five girls on the chairmen's team (out of five), and just Stef this year on manufacturing.

Like many others have said, it doesn't matter if they aren't directly working on the robot...the girls involved are making career choices that have been inspired by involvement with FIRST, they are marketing our team to sponsors and helping me find funds, and doing a LOT of work that must be done in order for this team to survive.

[phurley67]

Not sure of our count (we are a pretty large team and our numbers are somewhat fluid); however, the majority of members are male. That said our president, vice-president and programming lead (my daughter --> go Allie) this year are all girls. Last year our president and co-pilot were also girls. We have girls working in most if not all of our sub-groups.

[Celia]

Two years ago, we had a majority of female members (about 12 of 20). The past season, 11 of 25 were female, which is close enough to 50/50. However, more young women have assumed leadership roles on our team. The team captain (me), electrical lead, programming lead, business lead, and scouting lead were all female. This is five young women in leadership roles compared to two young men (CAD and build) on our team. In addition to this, our drive team this past season consisted of a female driver (also me) and operator (said programming lead) with a male human player.

I love how involved and driven our girls are, and I think it is encouraging for new members to see girls in respected positions, no matter the field. Our electrical lead was even mistaken for a mentor during inspection at competition this year by a mentor of a Hall of Fame team.

[Vince lau]

Originally Posted by Vince lau

Canadian all girls teams that i know of

771 - St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School
1275 - Havergal College
1291 - St. Clement's School

oh ya i forgot Emery Collegiate Institute has two teams this year an all boys team and and all girls team, so that make 4 all girls school teams in the Canadian Regionals that i know of