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Re: Q&A Discuss: Girls on Teams

I was the webmaster and media producer because I had the most experience as the Chief Technology Editor of the high school newspaper.
Us girls had the option of doing whatever we wanted, so I also helped with design, tried my hand at Autodesk, and helped with wiring when I needed to. I was also part of the pit crew at the Oregon Regional. As the webmistress, I also ended up doing a lot of communication with other teams.
I wouldn't think that any team would openly say girls aren't allowed to do shop and such. It's just easier for us to slip into doing what we supposedly do good: the whole human relations thing.
And so I suppose I did the same thing... this year. But that's only because I knew I had next year. I wanted to help this team do its best by doing what I know best. But even so, over the course of our team's short history, my knowledge and interest in the STEM fields has increased dramatically.
Now that I'm addicted to FIRST, next year I'm going to be the team captain, coach/teach the FLL kids, and so on. My personal goal is encourage girls not to be so scared of robotics, like I was when I switched out of my Introduction to Robotics class freshman year. My team and FIRST is doing a much better job at encouraging me to learn in these fields.
My second-in-command, the other returning senior next year, will also be a girl. Next year, OCPro seems like it's going to be predominantly female led. It shall be great, I tell you.



Cheerleading?... that's pretty sad.
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