Why is it that not many girls are into robotics?

[kapolavery]

I somewhat agree...
on my team there are only 2 girls. But robotics is fairly new in my community therefore the low amount of interest,
but a lot of the girls in our school think its cool.. a lot of them actually came down to see our team at our regional in hawaii (after I begged them to come.. jk haha)and also I heard chicks dig nerds. Im just playing..I dont know that for a fact.

I think its just getting them to change what career path they want to go into. A lot of people dont know what engineers are or do.
There's a lot of opportunities for young women to be engineers like most things, there becomes an equlibrium..just give it time.
And personally, I think it's awesome when I ask a girl what shes gonna do after high school and they say they want to be an engineer.

I kind of dont like it though when the robotics competition though becomes more of a social/trading and getting numbers kinda thing than the actual competition part. Not that it's wrong or that I haven't done that. sometimes it gets out of hand and the whole team loses focus because so and so got this girls number and so on. haha.
it just takes away from the main goal of why were there.