HELP: GIRLS AND ROBOTICS

[riboSquirrel]

well, there are three girls on our team, one is able to drive the robot... I on the other hand... and not alowed to really touch it... i almost drove last years into a wall...(never driven a controler before) but last year was also my freshman year. and one thing that really upset me was that in the fall we had another girl on the team, her and i were the cheerign section and leaders of the design and creativity portions of the competition, her and i could be hear cheering clearly over two bands, and three sets of cheer leaders(not to mention the SOUND SYSTEM that was in kenasaws tent... the 50 or so screaming team members and the anouncer) but her mom made her quit because it wasn't "what girls should be doing" ... i wanted to go up to her mom and say"if this is something girls don;t do, what am I?????!?!?!?!? a DUCK?! " this year will be my first FIRST competition(my grades were no where near where they needed to be) but this year i am really looking forward to it... and our team has been GAINING girls year by year, and we are trying to start robot teams in the elm and middle schools in our area to try and spark girls intrest before its destoyied by steriotypes of "girls do that" "guys only" its really sad... lucyly.. i'm imune mwahahaha fear my thick non-girl ness YOU GO GIRLS!!!!!!!