Girls on Teams

[Sugar_Bunny]

We have 10 girls on a 28 member team this year. About half of the girls do public relations, and the other half helps building.
Jackie

[Fouleaf]

We have 6 girls on a team of about 20. One is head of programming, 4 of us make up the electronics group and then one is the head of PR.

[preussrobotics]

Originally Posted by batbotcrewfrosh

Since we are an all-girls team, we have lately been interested in the roles of girls on co-ed teams. Some members of my team were doing a survey of the number of girls on teams and their jobs at the Buckeye Regional. We were very disappointed to discover that on some teams, girls were given only the job of cheerleader, or publicist. Continuing that, just please give the number of girls on your team, along w/ the number of students on your team, and what the girls usually do. Thanks a lot!

I know that my team is not the norm, but over half of my team are girls. Two of our officers are girls and three of our sub groups are also led by girls--arm design, programming, and electrical.

[roboticsnerd698]

Hello, I am a girl from team 698. We have 6 or 7 girls on our team out of about 40 in the team and we have many jobs. We don't slack either. We have 6 officer positions--President and VP are guys--but the other four are held by females, including myself. If there is any advertising done by girls on our team, it is our choice. Our PR is a girl, but good luck trying to get us as cheerleaders. Sure we'll cheer on our team, but we're not here for just looks. Our girls work with programming, pnuematics, animation, electronics/special teams, and building and designing our robot. We don't let guys push us around Anything planned or organized is either done by a girl, or helped by a girl. Some of us show more drive, determination and dedication than the others, but that's human nature. We are very upset when we hear that girls don't do a lot of building and try to break all stereotypes. One of our famous phrases is "Girls rule with power tools!" We are just as capable as the guys and try to help out as much as possible by doing any job that comes our way--building, designing, advertising, anything.

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by roboticsnerd698

We are very upset when we hear that girls don't do a lot of building and try to break all stereotypes. One of our famous phrases is "Girls rule with power tools!"

Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine. If your motivation for doing something is "to break stereotypes" you are defining your actions in the context of a broken system and playing into the hands of the "adversary", be it the male patriarchy, the vast right-wing conspiracy, or the RIAA.

Feminists often get a bad rap for this, modeling their lives around the inverse of stereotypes, which is a very low form of protest, as they are still allowing themselves to be controlled by the stereotype. Had the stereotype been otherwise, they would be acting differently, and thus are not thinking for themselves at all, but rather acting on a knee-jerk contrarian sentiment. Are you rebelling for the sake of rebelling? Is this really rebellion at all?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by phrontist

Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine. If your motivation for doing something is "to break stereotypes" you are defining your actions in the context of a broken system and playing into the hands of the "adversary", be it the male patriarchy, the vast right-wing conspiracy, or the RIAA.

Feminists often get a bad rap for this, modeling their lives around the inverse of stereotypes, which is a very low form of protest, as they are still allowing themselves to be controlled by the stereotype. Had the stereotype been otherwise, they would be acting differently, and thus are not thinking for themselves at all, but rather acting on a knee-jerk contrarian sentiment. Are you rebelling for the sake of rebelling? Is this really rebellion at all?

It's better than doing nothing at all.

[Cyberguy34000]

We have a team of 60 or so students but only 3 or so girls, all of which are on the mechanical design and build team. (There might be a few more on web or animation but we never see those people) We've tried to recruit more, it's been a little bit of a problem because our corporate sponsors want to see more girls on our team. We've tried to attract some more to our team but haven't had too much success so far.

[melissa]

I am from MOE and this year we have 9 girls out of a team of 30- thats so exciting! I was one of 3 two years ago, and then one of 4 last year. Even though I am the only returning girl, they all jumped right in and started working. We have girls in every aspect of the team- mechanical, programming, web design, PR and spirit, electical, pneumatics, and the list goes on...

~Melissa

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

It's better than doing nothing at all.

I disagree. Do things because YOU want to do them for YOUR reasons.

[Jasmin]

I have a couple of jobs on our team. The first one I kind of appointed to myself, and that is to record everything that was done during our meeting. It really helps us out to keep on track, and know what we've already covered.

The second is on the animation team. I'm one of two people who work on concept art/the storyboard.

Then I also do random tasks that need to be done for the team that no one's able to do. For instance, this past Saturday I worked on one of the horizontal band saws, cutting pipe to make the tetras while the guys put them together in the classroom.

Oh, and I am a cheerleader, but so are all the men on the team, too.

[Justin Baier]

We've got 5 girls this year. Which is up from 1 last year . Most of them write for the website and do journal/PR stuff. The two that are doing "real" work this year are invaluable.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by phrontist

I disagree. Do things because YOU want to do them for YOUR reasons.

Actually we make a conscious effort to draw girls and minorities to our team (Wilson Magnet is an inner city school after all). Diversity is a big deal with us. Everyone places different values on diversity and just because yours are not as high as ours does not make our preferences wrong.

[hockeydaisy341]

we are a team of about 30 i guess, some are dropping as build season goes on as usual, so its unknown right now. I would say 10 to 15 are girls. I personally am a part of the chairmans team and business, media, scouting, and human player. At our own competition Ramp Riot, i was head coach for our booth crew very fun. The other girls do various things on the team. 5 or 6 are on build/electrical. Others are on awards and scouting etc. Everyone gets a chance to do what they want. No girl is told that she cant build or anything. I think the girls on our team play a big part i think that could apply to any team!

[Modeish]

We have 10 girls on our team of 30 or so...

I am the drive train team lead, one is a programmer and webmaster, one does marketing, one does chassis, and the other 6 do spirit.

-Modeish

[EOC]

Out of the 68 active members on our team 30 are female.
Of this 30, 18 are on the administrative team, 8 are on the electrical team, 3 are on the mechanical team and 1 is on the programming team.