How did this happen!?!?! 7 new girls in a team of ~20

[GaryVoshol]

1188 took 6 girls and 5 guys to Atlanta last year. It didn't help that some of our guys had grade problems, and were suspended. The drive team was all girls, plus a woman engineer coach. They were asked several times if they were from an all-girls school.

This was after 4 years of my daughter being on an all-girl FLL team. (That came about because when they organized, there were too many for one team, and the boy/girl split was about 50/50, so they divided up that way.) The girls got sick of hearing, "You're an all girl team?" GP prevented them from answering how they wanted, "Yeah, don't you think girls can do this?" They proved they could do it by being runner up for State Director's trophy in their second year, and winning it in both their 3rd and 4th year.