All female team- students AND mentors

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Marie

I am a mentor on a rookie team.
(the students for the team haven't been selected (that's going on now)).

We are an all female team, where students are from all girls high school, and all the mentors are female too.

I know there are other FIRST teams that are all female, specifically all female students. Are there other teams out there that are all female students and all female mentors??

Hi. I'm Ed Patterson. I approached you and your teammates after the Xerox robotics meeting last month and invited you to come to the Ruckus.
We talked about you guys at the Ruckus meeting tonight. We want you to come and play with us. It's free for pre rookies. I'm sure one of the teams can provide you with a bot (we are currently in the process of moving into our new home this weekend and may be able to provide you with our practice bot). If we can't get you the bot in time I'm sure Rolling Thunder can.
Oh and welcome to the Xerox FIRST family.

[GaryVoshol]

2048 was an all-girls team from Detroit last year; I believe they are registered again this year. But they have a male mentor.

[Royalpride1070]

I'm from team 1070, and we are an all girls team, our mentors are not all female though, and most of the all girls teams i know hav both male and femals mentors.

[RoboMom]

Western High in Baltimore will have an all-girls team this year. They have not received their number yet. However mentors are both male and female.

[JesseK]

I agree that having both male and female mentors on a team due to different thought processes -- historically males are spacial/visual and females are analytical, imo.

It also simply brings another brain into the mix. If you haven't had a male mentor respond asking if he can help that's something you can't help -- but specifically excluding a mentor just because he's male is ... well, whatever P.C. term you want to call it but it also eliminates possibilities that could very well help your team.

[JaneYoung]

From reading Marie's post, she is asking if there are any FIRST teams that are made up of female students and mentors. It would be my guess that there may be a few but not many.

It would be my suggestion that the discussion regarding having a mix of male and female mentors on a FIRST team is very interesting and it might be something that could be further discussed in separate thread. I'm not understanding why we should tell a team to change something that doesn't appear to need changing. Instead, I would encourage this new team to keep a journal of what they are learning this year and look at what they want to keep/what they want to change next year and in the years following. That's the cool thing about FIRST teams - they are full of surprises and on-going change.