Girls Vs. Boys

[Andrew Blair]

Personal opinion- In a school with a less than popular robotics team, boys are less likely to be turned off by the geek factor than girls. Alot of it is social relations, and, indirectly as a result of different groups, some people are not exposed freely to FIRST.

[irishninja]

This is going to sound really sexist, and I don't mean it that way, but as a PR person and a male I talk to a lot of people about robotics, espeically incoming students. I get a lot more of "I could never do that, I'm not smart enough, I don't know how to do that" from girls than guys ( I get it from guys as well but less so). I always try to tlel everybody, guys as well as girls, that it doesn't matter. My team learns from osmosis. We just absorb knowledge. Id dint' know anything, and I'm still not the most technical person, but I know more than I did. I don't know what it is, maybe just societal impositions engrained in our brains that guys have to be one way and girls have to be another. But my team has about 1/4 team members are girls, and most of them are in PR.