Girls on Teams

[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...