Why girls ARE joining our team...

[evulish]

After graduation...we lost our entire PR team. Well...it was two girls. That was a big team.

[Madison]

Originally posted by dixonij
If anyone went to Philly regionals last year you might remember the diablo girls. They were raising money by selling hugs and kisses. they actually made $83.52 from that. anyway we had 9-10 girls but after graduation we only had 1. we did get 3-4 newbies but that isnt really enough to make up for our losses.

Umm, ewww. Nevermind what other potential they might have, you can't make up for lost hugging/kissing revenue?

I know you didn't mean for this to sound the way it does, but it sounds that way. It's insulting.

[Judy]

Our team has about 10 girls... it's odd though because our media people are always trying to find a way to incorporate the girl's into the videos and such. Makes me laugh. It's basically because a lot of the girls are involved in strategy and media.. most of us don't know too much about fab(though I'm trying to learn) Should be interesting...
As for the whole grad thing. Next year our team is loosing a ton of people. The vast majority of our team is seniors and most of the people that do the work are part of that group. Our seniors are running the team almost... should be.. interesting next year.
*hugz to all as alwayz*
Ann-Marie -team 783 "Mobotics"

[dixonij]

Originally posted by M. Krass


Umm, ewww. Nevermind what other potential they might have, you can't make up for lost hugging/kissing revenue?

I know you didn't mean for this to sound the way it does, but it sounds that way. It's insulting.

im so sorry
by losses i ment by the amount of girls we lost, and it had nothing to do with the money.
i should edit that to remove all the parts of the kissing/hugging stuff. will i ever get around to it? maybe.

-Ian
dazed and confused after 87's first Robotics academy lesson.

[Mimi Brown]

I remember talking with a few girls @ Kickoff in Kokomo... I think they were from Ohio, but their team had more girls than they did boys...

that was us all the way!! our team has waaaaaaaay too much fun wherever we go!

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally posted by Jnadke
I remember talking with a few girls @ Kickoff in Kokomo... I think they were from Ohio, but their team had more girls than they did boys...

And I remember Adam and Benji talking about them for months afterwards!

- Katie

[Marc P.]

My experience with girls in general hasn't been all that great... my first girlfriend despised FIRST with a passion (since she felt I was spending more time with the robot than with her, which was true because she essentially had 2 other boyfriends while dating me, which I found out about before the FIRST season started, very long story behind that one, but I stuck with her for about 10 months) and with my next girlfriend we were both very happy for 9 months or so, until she went to an acting camp and met a guy almost identical to me (as far as computers, nerdy-ness, looks, and personality go), with the exception of him being an actor, while I was a sound technician. She dumped me with the excuse "I don't feel the same about you anymore." Then went out with him literally a week later. She was okay with the idea of FIRST, but I saw her a lot more during the season (since she lived down the road from our workshop). Eh well, I've only had a total of 2 girlfriends in my life, and that's how the story goes. *sigh* oh well.

[evulish]

Heh...that's 2 more than me.

[dixonij]

im 15 years, 6 months, 2 days single. god it sucks.

[Trashed20]

Originally posted by evulish
Heh...that's 2 more than me.

join the club. there is a possible one on the horizon though which would be very nice.

[Redhead Jokes]

Our family joined robotics to help a less social member stay in. We had no clue just how much my daughter Angela Barron would thrive in the program. She worked at the machine shop on the robot, co-drove at all the competitions, and is now RUHS president of robotics. Her sister-in-law is amazed because she never imagined Angela doing something like this. Angela’s freshman sister joined this year, fourteen years old the youngest welder ever in the welding class at El Camino College. She kicked her stepdad's butt who also took the class. A male alumni had clued us in that girls make the best welders, which gave us the idea of her joining her stepdad at summer school.

Marygrace is recruiting girls like crazy.

I think the reason we didn't have girls in the past is a prevailing attitude...
MCHS Robotics’ President Greg Nelson says, “On the issue of girls, there are not many girls involved in robotics period. We had two from MCHS and 0 from Redondo in 2001, and one this past season from MCHS and only a few from Redondo. This season I’m trying to twist some arms to get a few more to give it a shot, but the girls that I can get to come will not be willing to spend the time it takes to do robotics. Another reason that there are so few girls I believe is because of the field of activity. Without sounding sexist here...to be honest does robotics sound like the type of thing that girls would normally jump into? Unfortunately, for most of the girls I know, the answer to this is no. However, as with all rules there are exceptions. I just wish there were more. I think the girls can be just as talented as guys in this program but the problem is getting them to try. If you have any suggestions in this area, my ears are open.”

This year we have 10 girls from RUHS, and one cool girl from MCHS who also happens to be on the MCHS freshman football team - she's challenging MCHS's attitudes about girls in robotics and on the football field.

Raytheon took Angela and I to California Governor's Conference for Women...

http://www.cgcw.org/

We made contacts at the Conference.

LA Society of Women Engineers wrote an article about our team, and gave us inside scoop on funding.

[DaBruteForceGuy]

Originally posted by dixonij
im 15 years, 6 months, 2 days single. god it sucks.

I'm guessing that's your age, otherwards that literslly new-born relationship must of been pretty disfunctional

[evulish]

He could be 50.

[dixonij]

yes that is my age
no im not 50
tomorrow i will be 15 years, 6 months, 3 days single.


-Ian
Single...and hating it

[Mimi Brown]

im 15 years, 6 months, 2 days single. god it sucks.

Heh...that's 2 more than me.

Silly boys...you are sooo off the topic of this thread!