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Re: Girls,Why did you join FIRST???

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It would be great to start the FIRST Femmes (or something like that)... Our purpose would be to encourage young girls with potential to get involved. The disproportionate amount of males to females in engineering is sad - I'm the perfect example of someone with a lot of potential that went on to a more traditional "girl" field bc I though I was "supposed" to. grrrrrr...
If you're looking for a FIRST organization centered around girls... You'd probably be interested in the RCU (Robot Chicks Union)! That's part of the focus of the RCU... to get more girls involved in FIRST, engineering, technology, etc.
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Re: Girls,Why did you join FIRST???

Hm, well, Tom sent me over from the guys starting in FIRST thread...funny how some us get lost

Essentially I started becuase I heard about it from the girl I swam with freshman year. I needed a change, becuase I had a thirst for practical science that school science classes were barely providing me becuase I was above that level in interest. The choice to join was a difficult one. I was very very intimidated at first due to my lack of lab experience, and since I was doing a million and one things at once, decided to stick to a more laid back aspect.

However, once I realized what I'd gotten myself into, laid back was no longer a priority. Involvement was a priority. I am now with a group of friends who can smile when I rant about Science Fair and Robotics Nationals simultaneously and who help me see what education really means in this crazy world.

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Re: Girls,Why did you join FIRST???

I had always loved playing with legos as a kid, so when my elementary school was trying to start up FLL teams, I joined an all-girls lego league team in 5th grade. We stayed together all through middle school, and I found that I loved working on the lego robot and programming it to accomplish all of the challenging tasks.

When I was trying to figure out what high school to go to, one of my requirements was that it had a robotics team. I had been to see a few of the "big kid robotics" competitions, and knew that I wanted to do it when I was in high school. At our club fair day I went to the robotics booth, and they all immediately started encouraging me to join once they found out that I was a girl interested in robotics. And I've been a programmer on our team ever since!
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Re: Girls,Why did you join FIRST???

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If you're looking for a FIRST organization centered around girls... You'd probably be interested in the RCU (Robot Chicks Union)! That's part of the focus of the RCU... to get more girls involved in FIRST, engineering, technology, etc.
We are improving things and we need girls to be involved. Please sign up. We have a few things being worked on like chats about girl participation, how to get them involved and roles on the team and various other topics.
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