You've Got Male

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Posted by colleen.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Other on team #?, Actually, I'm a FIRST-aholic, from an undecided team for the year 2000 and I'm taking invitations :-).

Posted on 8/12/99 9:57 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: You've Got Male posted by Mike Kulibaba on 8/12/99 6:22 PM MST:




you're really afraid of offending people, eh?

personally, from the perspective of being the recipient of the female-only award, i agree with what you say... it's obviously the desire of Carol Bartz to encourage women into engineering, and a valid reason for having the award.. and since Autodesk is a major sponsor and all, and because I think it's a worthwhile award- I don't see them being rid of it in the future.

As for the all male award- one for a student would be cool.. or a general student one, in which teams nominate one student and they write the essays and stuff like the girls for the DYF award do.. good idea

As for the male engineer award, i'd say no... if you want to make, again, a general award to be given to one engineer (kinda like the Woodie Flowers Award modified i presume) i think that would be cool...

Yeah, a lot of this stuff is sexist.. that's not going to change.. i think FIRST will always be male-dominated so the girls that do get really involved are going to get a little more attention regardless.. more awards that are more personal for effort would be cool..

How bout an engineering award in honor of Dean?

-colleen

and P.S. you were very well spoken, i would have never gotten offended :-)