Girls on Teams

[Gui Cavalcanti]

We have two primary drivers, me and Jana.

Erin and Bess are skilled machinists. Erin's also our only human player.

Linda's project manager for the robot.

Our team has 4 girls on a team of around 12 to 15 people total. Anybody can do whatever they take the initiative to do, no matter what it is.

[Ryan Morin]

I'm not exactly sure how many girls are on our team i think its around 10. but for the most part the girls on our team do what they want to do. Some do the scouting for the drive team, some cheer for us and the other teams competing, we have two that are on construction and for that they are on our drive team, one is one of the best human players I saw in NJ and the other is the co-driver and is great at what she does too. But for the most part the girls on our team are very involved in what's going on. Its some of the guys that we have to worry about.

[Zimee]

Actually, the final tally of girls (students, not including mentors) on MOE is 4... then again, when there's about 30 some people on the team, I guess that's not saying much. However, all things considered, I think we do some pretty important work. 2 of us (myself and mi amiga Mel) hooked up the entire pneumatics system on GizMOE(Hence, we are the Pneumatics/Pneumo Chicks). Another girl is on the autonomous team (which also happens to be mentored by a woman) and the other girl is on video team (much as I hate the boom mike, I'll admit they do important work).

[skrussel]

OOOPS! Jason....6 out of 13 are girls!!! they did wiring, construction, and carpentry.

Originally Posted by Hailfire

4 out of 10 students are girls on our team. One does all of the web work, organizes team parties, one does most of the electrical stuff, wiring, etc., one does all of the writing, typing, and cheering for the team, and the last one represents our team by being the team mascot, and does a variety of stuff.

Meanwhile, I did some animation, some work on the crate for the robot, some wiring, some programming, and quite a bit of construction.

I guess you could say that everyone on our whole team did something constructive throughout build period, and outside of build period.

[MOEmaniac]

in my opinion girls are necessary on a team because their point of view on things can be different than wat guys would normally think. so my answere is yes i think they should be on almost if not all teams

[Trinora]

Team 237 is lucky; of around our 30 members, a little less than half are women. One major part was the "little sister" factor, but these girls who have been raised on FIRST have proved as if not more capable than their male counterparts. Though the majoirty of girls are sophomores and juniors, they are found on every aspect of the team. Our pneumatics team is almost exsclusively female, and most of our electrical team as well. In fact, only two members, both female, were fundraising and PR. Autodesk was completely female, as is Scouting, and the single member of Strategy.

I don't see women and men anymore, just the aweseme people who helped make our 10 foot tall baby. Sure, it can be intimidating, but that is why the older girls make an effort to help the younger ones feel more comfrotable. The grunt and burp masculine air of the team has only made us more tolerant and able to expell gas with the best of them.

[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.

[adventrx327]

Our team is pretty small, and we have only 4-5 girls on our team. THey do help contribute milling, drilling, soldering, etc., but I dont think we involve them quite as much as we should. Partially this is due to a lack of knowledge of the actual electronic components (etc. spike vs victor, difference in relay vs pwm output, etc), but next year we will focus on EDUCATION for the first part of the year.

But guess what? Our mentor that helped me learn C (well, machine based) was a woman (i guess a girl because she's reallly young)!!!

[Bridgette]

I'm one of three girls on my team, and at most meetings, I was the only girl there. I helped with electrical work, wrote our team's Chairman's Award with one of the other girls on the team. I'm also co-captain and manipulator. I was the only girl at most meetings, but I didn't let that stop me from doing anything. It wasn't too hard for me to become part of the team because my brother has been on 121 for 4 years and I know most of the other team members from school. I haven't experienced any discrimination other than good-natured teasing. It's hard to relate to the guys sometimes (like at regionals when they're checking out girls), but we're all one big happy family most of the time.

[Winged Wonder]

team 233 (aka the PINK team) has a pretty decent guy to girl ratio. i'm not sure of the exact figures, but its pretty close to 50:50. the girls do so much for our team, if i do say so myself. Those of you who saw the girls painted pink at the 2004 UCF regional (yeah i was one of them) but thats not all we girls do! sure we females are there for spirit (boys paint themselves pink too!), but a lot of us helped with building the robot, our practice playing field, scouting, etc. We've got 2 girls in Pit crew... one is our lovely Tool Girl, who does a very nice job i might add (shes a sophmore), and out pit cheif (who is a junior) is also a girl, and its even her first year on the team! a lot of girls tried out for human player and driver too. we girls help a lot with design and things like that, and i mean, seriously, our team color is PINK. you all just KNOW that had some female influence. there were also three girls, including myself, who worked on our admission for chairmans award (yours truely was the project manager), and i also helped with making the little pink team trading cards we have.. good luck if any of you can find them. lol i'm also the team 'seamstress'... i made a flag and button banners.... anyways, i'm living proof of the "little sister factor".. i got interested in robotics because of my brother (hes the arm operator for our robot this year!). the girls have been welcomed and accepted to the group, and its just like a great big family! ^_^ (i've even become an adopted little sister by some of my teammates lol) but yeah anyways, girls on team 233 arent just there to just stand around and look cute, we have some major imput to our team and are every bit as valuable as the boys!

[KingsvilleKukes]

There are about 25 students on our team, five of wich are girls. We are all doing PR this year, but i know i definatly will be helping more on buliding next year! I hope that next year more girls will want to join, i don't think the boys would mind.