Girls on Teams

[647techangel]

Originally Posted by SL8

Looks around, "where are the not so hot chicks? Oh, that's our school's cheerleaders."

i bet u wouldnt say that to my friend whos a cheerleader for our school sl9

[SL8]

Originally Posted by 647techangel

i bet u wouldnt say that to my friend whos a cheerleader for our school sl9

You know what I mean.

[jdh]

We have 11 members on our team. 6 guys, 5 girls.

We have one girl as head of electrical, and the other girls all were in mechanical. I remember when they first joined--none of them would touch a drill. Now they are drilling like crazy.

At the regional, one girl was our coach and another our robo-coach.

I don't think it really matters if a girl does a job--some people just have a biased opinion about some things like that--the girls on my team can do their stuff better than I could, so that is that. If a girl has the capability over someone else, let them help.

[Kersten]

Originally Posted by jdh

We have 11 members on our team. 6 guys, 5 girls.

We have one girl as head of electrical, and the other girls all were in mechanical. I remember when they first joined--none of them would touch a drill. Now they are drilling like crazy.

At the regional, one girl was our coach and another our robo-coach.

I don't think it really matters if a girl does a job--some people just have a biased opinion about some things like that--the girls on my team can do their stuff better than I could, so that is that. If a girl has the capability over someone else, let them help.

Well put!

[647techangel]

Originally Posted by SL8

You know what I mean.

no i dont,dont start 2 chicken out now

[Danny McC]

Remember to keep it to none-IM style conversation.

[i_am_samus]

On our team, there's only about... 4 or so girls, me being one of them. I'm team leader, and I've helped out with electrical, and mechanical, and wrote most of our hybrid's code.

One other girl helps with brainstorming, and has done a bit of code and mechanical. Otherwise, the other two don't really show up.

[Flanamana]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

For what it's worth, if the boys had said, "So, let's work out a way to pick our drivers" rather than "the boys will drive" things might have gone differently...

That may be true but the girls didn't do that either. The whole "equality" thing isn't reached, the power is just shifted to the girls, so it's their way now.

[ErikSR71]

There are three girls on my team. One was on the eletrical sub-team, one was in charge of our chairmans presentation, and the other worked on PR and random jobs.

[hopkins]

We have seven girls and fourteen guys on our team. I am the captain and driver of our team so obviously gender didn't get in my way. I guess our team either doesn't discriminate or i didn't care if they did. I might have helped that one of our mentors is a woman engineer. Everyone has had to prove their worth whether girl or boy. Everyone is taught about any area that they want to learn (build, chairmans, electrical etc.) and then they usually find their niche. Our girls are working in every part of our team even though there are few of them.

I think if a girl wants to have a role on a team they just have to show that they want to learn and they have to be determined and dedicated. When i started out in FIRST in FLL, back in 4th grade, it was girls team against boys team in my school. We took a lot of teasing, ignored it, and ended up winning a design award, and they went home with nothing. That shut them up and gave us confidence. I think that girls need to realize that they need to stand their ground sometimes, its obviously going to be hard. No one is going to hand responsibility to you unless you prove yourself, girl or boy.

[kazzykaty]

We have 3 involved girls on the team. They may not build the robot or website but we do EVERYTHINg else. There wouldnt be a team without someone to fundraising, PR, communications, orginzation and such. We keep everyone on task and do all of the "chores" that no one else wants to do.

[Cappeh]

We have fifteen members on our team, three of which are female. One wrote our Chairman's Award this year, but hasn't been able to do much else due to her workload and some personal matters. I, myself, am heavily mechnically based, and usually found in the pits- our third female member is our rookie programmer that's done a fantastic job on our robot this year. <3

Having a coed team can be a wonderful thing, if you have the right students. We luckily have a group of guys that aren't sexist in the least, and let us girls jump right in wherever we'd like.

[THE DYNAMO]

We halve five active girls on our team of 15(10 dedicated 2 of which are girls
Emma Scott and and Julia Haerr are awesome machinists so im making them shirts that say "chicks dig lathes!"

[Brian Ha]

We have 7 girls on our team of 30. 3 of them are on electrical but really only 2 do work, 2 are in shop we dont do anything, 1 on website who does do stuff. We support girls on our team, but they like talking more haha

[O.S.S. King]

3/43 are girls on our team. One of them is on the animation team and the other two are on the build team. We have been trying to recruit more girls the past few years. Any suggestions??