Girls on Teams

[Ryo_Himura]

The girls on my team have varying positions in programming, publicity, animation, building the actual robot. Basically there is at least 1 or 2 girls in each of the committees

[Shu Song]

Three of the five girls we have this year are on electronics, the other two do mechanical. They are all very talented and eager to learn. Having girls on the team definitely spices up the atmosphere.

[darragon]

well !st semester we only had one girl and she was doing programing and electronics,but now we have 3,(1+2) and the other 2 are doing web crap for us, codeing and camra-ing, and such.so ya not to many to my dissatisfation..i would love to have more girls on my team...email me ladys!!!!

[Kyle]

This year MOE has I think 9 girls, a new record for us. The girls all have very important roles on the team, one of them Melissa fox(Mclissa) is head of the pneumatics team, others are on our drive train team, web and animation teams, programing and electrical also, I think that there is a girl on each of our sub teams this year. I think it is great to have girls on the team, and thats not just because I am a guy and enjoy the company of girls. The girls have given us new and fresh ideas and have helped keep some of us guys in check during some of the meetings.

[roboticsnerd698]

Originally Posted by MXR1120

I was quite mollified when I saw this topic here at ChiefDeliphi. It interested me to see the roles of girls on other teams, as I have always wondered, Are the girls on the other teams doing the same things as me?

My name is Joy, and I am a fifteen-year-old sophomore at my school. I am one of the few rookies on the team this year, this being my first year. I've been interested in Robotics since I-don't-know-when, because my dad is an engineer and I've been exposed to the atmosphere for a fairly long time. I love electronics, and hence I am one of the two electronics apprentices. The other apprentice is a freshman, of the male gender. XD

There are 22 students who have signed up to be on the team, 15 of whom are active. And of those 15, 5 of us are girls: 1 freshman, 1 sophomore (me), 2 juniors, and 1 senior. Diverse, no? What's more, is that 1 junior and the senior girls have been members for more than a year. They are also council members, secretary and treasurer. Not much, you might say. But I say that their being on the council made me want to join even more.

Like I said, I am an electronics apprentice. This means that I'm learning on how to work on the electronics, how things work, and why. I love it! It's just one of the things that I love, I suppose. I am also on the chassis team, helping to build the robot.

Relationships between the girls and the guys here are quite easy-going, and everyone works great with anyone else. However, (yes folks, however) there are times when I myself feel that the guys think they know more. But of course, this might be due to the fact that I'm just a rookie. -__-; So really, I can't speak.

I must say, though, that many people find it hard to believe that I am on the Robotics team in the first place. This is because my other love is Art & Theater, which by the way, is no easy task, either. Still, the jump from Theater to Robotics is still pretty big, and balancing the two would be yet another wall to scale. Yes, with the Spring Musical coming up as well, this will be a pretty interesting season.

Ciao,
~Joy

Girl you awesome! This is my first year too, and I am a dancer as well. I work on the "frame and drive train" team as well as an arm team. It's so much fun and I understand that whole balance issue. Also, the guys around our team think they know more than we girls (which is mostly true in my case, but hey I'm learning!) but most of them don't know enough to have "security under their belts." Our GREAT president does, this being his fourth year, and he is the one teaching me. Him and ArmoredFairy698 (sp?) are my tutors this year--not to mention my two best friends. I was on the team "unofficially" last year, and I know it's tough. Balancing is hard, especially with two opposite ended spectrums, but hang in there! Robotics is so much fun and I'm glad I joined! That probablly had nothing to do with what you were saying, but I thought I'd add my two cents...

[GoSparx]

We have 30 students on our team. 4 of the 30 our girls. 3 of the 4 are on the promotions team and do things that involve buying supplies, working the website, chairmans award woodies flowers award etc. The other girl is actually on the electronics team and is one of the best workers. She is also our lead strategist.

[MyNameHere]

there are two girls on the team this year. one does CAD and the other one does marketing and floats between sub-groups that need help

[LexDeForge]

Well, being an all girls school, Elmwood's team is 100% female. However, all of our mentors are guys/men.

The information you were actually looking for: We've got a team of 25 girls, and 6 mentors.

[avwilloughby]

We have seven girls on a team of thirty. Our girls are very active and participate on each of our four committees. Three of these girls are student managers for the team. They are AMAZING!!!! They do so much for the team. However, we find it very surprising that only 23% of our team is female. Thus it would be quite nice if we could get more girls to participate. We have girls building, working with our logo and public relations as well as helping wherever they can. It brings an unusal, but much needed balance to the team. So, girls, everywhere! get involved!! And for those that are, kudos and keep keepin' it real...

[vic burg]

on 108 we have about, 10-15 girls on the team. there are about 40 people on our team. most of the other girls, actually, all the other girls are on PR or Graphics or animations or something like that. i'm on mechanical. i beleive that there is one other girl.im basically the only girl that works. but, the other girls on the team do do amazing work. and im proud that they do what they do. the fact that about, half of them show up to the meetings is disappointing. but, the ones that do, are good at what they do.

[Jess1513]

i am the only girl on my team ; i would say that i pretty much get along with all of them . our team is only made up of 7 and about 4 mentors. being a rookie team we are all kinda lost on this. The guys just wanna build and play and have fun they dont like doing any of the hard work. So most of it falls on me , though if i needed one of them to do something they would in a heartbeat

[10reasons]

WBI has 6 girls on the 26 person tech team as well as 5 out of 22 on IT and all three of our PR members. Also 5 of our 18 mentors our female. Most of the girls on our team give everything they've got. The problem on our team is not that the girls are intimidated by the guys but dealing with the comments the guys make about our being female.

[BLAZE]

Personally, I think teams with alot of girls are lucky.... More brains! No offense to all us guys, but you have to admit the girls do tend to think about things before they do them, unlike most of us guys... Our team only has 4, 3 white girls and one crazy PR girl we call "Isha", my conterpart during the competition. (Our team has two mascots, since I can no longer be the Lego Maniac I'm now the King Jester & she claimed the other side of the throne.) Seriously though, the girls on the New England teams seem braver than the guys and I wouldn't be suprised. Girls need to have a voice on a team. It lets you see things from all aspects. Well, enough said... does anybody know any of the teams in the Arizona Regional this year? My team's going there this year and it would be nice to meet some new people, not from the east coast.

[raining queen]

my team has over 50% girls...of coarse they are smarter and better at everything, except the heavy stuff, dont wanna break a nail u kno, lol... we have spirit yes we do, we have the spirit how about you!!! as you cant tell im hyper but thats nothing compared to the resident cheer nazis, girls of coarse.

[vic burg]

Originally Posted by BLAZE

Personally, I think teams with alot of girls are lucky.... More brains! No offense to all us guys, but you have to admit the girls do tend to think about things before they do them, unlike most of us guys... Our team only has 4, 3 white girls and one crazy PR girl we call "Isha", my conterpart during the competition. (Our team has two mascots, since I can no longer be the Lego Maniac I'm now the King Jester & she claimed the other side of the throne.) Seriously though, the girls on the New England teams seem braver than the guys and I wouldn't be suprised. Girls need to have a voice on a team. It lets you see things from all aspects. Well, enough said... does anybody know any of the teams in the Arizona Regional this year? My team's going there this year and it would be nice to meet some new people, not from the east coast.

yeah. i agree with you. not so much of the fact that i'm a girl but, i know some guys, in general, just tend to do without even thinking. as for the arizona regional, the teasm are: 38 Teams Attending
Team # Team Name City, State 1st Event?
1. 60 Ford/Southwire/Laron Engineering & Kingman High School Kingman, AZ Y
2. 64 GM Desert Proving Ground & Highland High School & Queen Creek High School Mesa, AZ Y
3. 80 Watts Premier & Cortez High School Phoenix, AZ Y
4. 190 WPI & Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science Worcester, MA N
5. 192 Gunn High School & PARC Palo Alto, CA Y
6. 207 Walt Disney Imagineering & C.V.U.H.S.D. and Hawthorne High School Hawthorne, CA Y
7. 234 Rolls-Royce/IUPUI/LHTEC & Perry Meridian High School Indianapolis, IN Y
8. 294 Raytheon/Northrop Grumman/RENT.COM/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & Redondo Union High School & Mira Costa High School (Manhattan Beach) Redondo Beach, CA Y
9. 330 J&F Machine/Raytheon/NASA/Goddard/Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & Hope Chapel Academy Hermosa Beach, CA Y
10. 399 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers/NASA Dryden Flight Research Center & Lancaster High School Lancaster, CA Y
11. 498 Cactus High School Glendale, AZ Y
12. 585 NASA Dyden Flight Research Facility/Northrop Grumman & Tehachapi High School Tehachapi, CA Y
13. 606 Raytheon Company/The Boeing Company/Northrop Grumman/Employees Community Fund of Boeing California/Los Angeles Trade Tech College & King Drew Magnet High School of Medicine & Science Los Angeles, CA Y
14. 610 The Bank of Nova Scotia/Enbridge Integrated Building Technologies/Siemens Canada Limited/Plan Group Ltd./Torcomp Inc./NOCO Energy Corp. & Crescent School Toronto, ON Y
15. 696 Hamilton Engineering/Glendale Community College & Clark Magnet High School La Crescenta, CA Y
16. 698 Microchip & Hamilton High School Chandler, AZ Y
17. 842 NASA/Inline Inc./Phelps Dodge Corp. & Carl Hayden High School Phoenix, AZ Y
18. 851 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers & Jubilee Torrance Academy Torrance, CA Y
19. 861 ?? ??, ?? Y
20. 872 NASA/American Electric Power/Columbus State Community College/NSF-DUE & Marion-Franklin High School & Southeast Career Center Columbus, OH Y
21. 888 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & Glenelg High School Glenelg, MD Y
22. 898 NASA/Quality Machining & Fabrication LLC & Ironwood High School Glendale, AZ Y
23. 973 NASA/Cal Poly SLO & Atascadeo High School Atascadero, CA Y
24. 980 NASA/Crystal View Corp. & Pinewood Academy & Delphi Academy & Mary's Schoolhouse & Renaissance Academy La Canada Flintridge, CA Y
25. 991 Tommy Gate Company/Ryan Companies US, Incorporated/Express Packaging and Crating/Chas Roberts Air Conditioning/Kitchell Contractors/Shaffer's Welding Shop & Brophy College Preparatory Phoenix, AZ Y
26. 996 Casa Grande Union High School Casa Grande, AZ Y
27. 998 NASA/The Challenger Learning Center of Alaska & Soldotna High School Soldotna, AK Y
28. 1011 University of Arizona & Sonoran Science Academy Tucson, AZ Y
29. 1136 NASA/Navair & Mt. Miguel High School Spring Valley, CA Y
30. 1165 Paradise Valley High School Phoenix, AZ Y
31. 1212 Microchip Technology Inc & Seton Catholic High School Chandler, AZ Y
32. 1223 East Valley Institute of Technology Mesa, AZ Y
33. 1290 "Jan's Iron Work & Chandler High School" Chandler, AZ Y
34. 1324 "NASA/Bent River Machine Shop/Phoenix Cement, Inc. & Sedona Red Rock High School" Sedona, AZ Y
35. 1343 "Desert Vista High School" Phoenix, AZ Y
36. 1401 "Universidad del Valle de M‚xico, Lomas Verdes" Naucalpan, MEX Y
37. 1456 "Intel Corporation & Basha High School" Chandler, AZ Y
38. 1492 "Microchip Technology, Inc. & Arizona Community Robotics Team" Chandler, AZ Y