Why is it that not many girls are into robotics?

[psych0gambit]

I am so retarded, I just found out that we have like three times more girls than guys on our team . So nvm my earlier post about why there isnt that many girls that is into engineering and robotics.

[Liz C]

I wouldn't necessarily claim that upbringing has to do with it. By the time a person reaches high school age, they are most likely able to decide what clubs they want to join strictly based on what they like or what they are good at. And some guys can insecure/stereotypical about the whole robotics idea and its supposed "dorkiness" too. In the whole scheme of things, it wasn't that long ago until women started entering the field of science, let alone engineering, and I've noticed (even though its not entirely true) that robotics is associated with just engineering. Perhaps this assumed relationship has something to do with it...

[sabrina752]

All I can say is girl power!

[angelc24]

When our team was first created the ratio of girls was 1/20 now it's 1/4. There is only one guy on the programming team and our drive train team leader is a girl. All of us contribute just as much as the guys to the actual robot.

[AngelShel29]

My sister, brother, and I were all involved with FIRST for multiple years. Go figure that my sister recieved a degree in Electrical Engineering... my brother is going to school for Criminal Justice... and I am in school for Mechanical Engineering... Hmm.. the 2 girls are in engineering, and the guy is is something else. Pretty interesting!

[Lil_moe]

Originally Posted by busterblade16

I am serious about this. Why dont they?

our team has the same problem the girls hardly show up

[aaronD341]

This is the question that has been pondered and pondered apon for sometime with no answer. I find it interesting thatI found this post the day when out local newspaper printed a story about our team avoiding the sterotype that girls don't do robotics. Our team doesn't really have a big problem with it. About 45% of our team is girls.

[santosh]

There defiently needs to be more girls in robotics at our school. We only have like 10 out of 84 people being girls in our club. Of Ptree, VCU and nationals, I think there was a higher percentage of girls at VCU.

[ymesays]

Originally Posted by busterblade16

I am serious about this. Why dont they?

ok thats not true! Team 126 there are way more girls then guys...everywhere I look with our team there really isnt a place where you find a guy who isnt out numbered by girls...So i dont know how it is with your teams but thats how it is with Team 126!

GO GAEL FORCE

[ymesays]

Originally Posted by Lil_moe

our team has the same problem the girls hardly show up

wow i thought our guys were bad

[ymesays]

Originally Posted by sabrina752

All I can say is girl power!

agree with ya...not like we did to stick together...i think the guys sgould cause we out number them by so much...hahaha

[bombadier337]

We have girls on our team, but they do mostly PR work. Actually all three of them leadership positions, we only have one guy in a leadership position. (me, VP)

[Tammyanez]

You know, some girls say that they don't join robotics because it is a "male" kind of thing. To them I say, FIRST robotics is about more than just building a robot. If girls are not into machining or engineering, there are other things to do, like creative aspects such as designing shirts or scrapbooking. They can also participate in marketing. There are so many facets to a robotics team and teams need to publicize this. If people only knew what goes on, a lot more people, girls and boys would join robotics.

[Kris Mackinnon]

will being one of the girlie girls on my team I say the reason for the girls at 240 host spot doesn't join in cause none of them are really into building things that doesn't inculed their make-up secltion but also over half are to busy with their sports to join. 5 out of 7 girls at my school are inovole in some from of a sport. There is a totally of 3 girls on my team out of fifthteen people. But those on the team this year most of us are being allowed to do stuff without the men coming over and taking away your project.undefined

[Nhiem]

Robotics was such a success the first year that we entered that the next year [last year] we split it into TWO teams. 1219 [Boys] and 1309 [Girls]. It was unbelievably difficult to manage but we made it through =). However this year due to a lack of interest we shrunk down to just 1219 again but did probably even better. Thats probably because the "leaders" of both teams joined together hehe. FYI i'd say there were ~15-20 girls on team 1309.