girls ?

If there aren't any girls on your team, or there are and they don't participate in the actual building of the robot, its your fault..... it may not be intentional but its your fault

everytime ive heard a team complain that the girls dont want to be a part of the robot building, ive gone to check it out and in every case so far theres been something a little more too it

[Elyse Holguin]

whoa! i'm on 71's pit crew. i worked on the bot, among LOTS of other things. i'm a floater, and i help out the rookies get into a place for them on the team. girls, stop being scared of a power tool already and pick it up! the only guy who's had a mishap with a power tool on the team was a guy. the only thing that matters is how you apply yourself. but in a lot of instances i see the guys are the ones that try to push the girls away. even i've been told to do weird jobs, like, testing strength... but you take it as it comes, laugh it off, and if someone feels like helping, yay!

[Amanda Morrison]

Originally posted by SharkBite
If there aren't any girls on your team, or there are and they don't participate in the actual building of the robot, its your fault..... it may not be intentional but its your fault

everytime ive heard a team complain that the girls dont want to be a part of the robot building, ive gone to check it out and in every case so far theres been something a little more too it

Not always true.

Our high school is one specifically for science, math, and humanities, so it's really incredible that there are so many kids interested in technical aspects. One girl on our team never really got interested in the robot, and I can't say I blame her. I'm an English major, and she plans on being an art major, but that doesn't mean that we are involved with the team any less than any other kid that is working on the actual robot. During my rookie year in FIRST, I hardly ever touched the robot, and I liked it that way. Even though I am a mentor now, I'm still an English major, and I have really no plans to go into any kind of engineering - but that doesn't mean that I can't encourage others to go into it. Even though now you'll find me working on the bot a bit more, I only do simple things, like tightening screws or holding things in place. I'm an english major. I might get a good kick from a lot of people on this forum for saying this, but I don't like engineering. I'm bad at it. I don't know what I'm doing and so I generally ignore the robot in its entirety when it comes to actually building it. But that's one of the great things about FIRST - there are things like the Chairmans' Award, the animation, the team spirit award, etc. to inspire those kids who maybe don't necessarily like engineering but still love FIRST. I was one of those kids, I still am one of those kids, and I hope to produce several more of those kids into the FIRST program through our team.

Our robot was built by dedicated students in a hole-in-the-wall teacher's lounge, and whether or not it was built by men or women is completely to their personal discretion. Hopefully all teams (and all girls) have the privlege of working the same way.

i dont think theres anything wrong with girls working on the non robot related project.... its just that if all of the girls are tending towards them, theres probably something to be fixed

most teams a few different kinds of kids on the team.... theres the dedicated core that enslave themselves during the building period..... theres the kids who know whats going on and help, but robotics isnt really thier priority.... and then theres the brand new kids and some other kids who participated previously but still didnt catch on.... the of kids that just kind of stand around and watch because they dont understand everything just yet..... the better the team (i mean in terms of being supportive) the faster these kids pick stuff up...... but if those kids are ignored too long, nobody teaches them how to use a tool or explains anything to them, they will either leave the team, or self motivate and find something else to do

most robotics teams are made up of mostly male mentors and students... when those mentors or veteren students are looking to reach out to one of the new students, they are less likely to pick a girl

all of the other committees within robotics are probably mostly run by females..... by this i mean PR, spirit, fundraising..... they are more likely to reach out to the girls

as long as people are happy its fine...... but sometimes girls on FIRST teams can get stuck in a rut where they want to build, and they want to do something else too, and its just easier to do that something else because thier friends are doing it or something

all im saying is that if you have a lot of girls on your team and none of them are working on the robot, some of them probably want to.... try to encourage them

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by SharkBite
i dont think theres anything wrong with girls working on the non robot related project

SharkBite

One of our girls is a wonderful painter. *coy grin* Did you see the
top of our crate

[utishpenguin]

Originally posted by Redhead Jokes
One of our girls is a wonderful painter. *coy grin* Did you see the
top of our crate

its a lovely painting... i wish our crate is as good as that....

[Kaelia]

Originally posted by IMDWalrus
128 is the only team that I've seen this year where the two drivers are both girls. They did a great job at West Michigan, and hopefully they'll do well in Houston.

Hey, all of our drivers are girls =P We don't have anything else, like the frosh helpfully pointed out already...Yup, to my knowledge, we were one of three all-girls teams at nationals. If I'm wrong and there were more, please tell me!

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by utishpenguin
its a lovely painting... i wish our crate is as good as that....

*grin*

not sure you saw

the rest of the crate

[Melissa H.]

*gasps*
Cool crate!

[hacksaw692]

Originally posted by Kaelia
Yup, to my knowledge, we were one of three all-girls teams at nationals. If I'm wrong and there were more, please tell me!

If someone knows, could you name all of the all girls teams, please?

I know there were three in the Archimedes division: 692 (Fembots), 771 (S.W.A.T.), and 433 (erm... team name I'm not sure of). And now 677 (what division were you in?).

We got to be allied with 433 once. It was cool. An all girl alliance... hehehe. We kicked butt in that match!

So if there were others, speak up!

[Marygrace]

Wuts up. My name is Marygrace, i am from Beach Cities Robotics. I took a class at the local Community College. I took a welding class. I did all of the welding on our robot this year. We have had female presidents for the past three years. We have seven girls total. One of them do all of the painting, she painted murals on all sides of the crate, including the top. My sister who was this years president, helped out with about a third of the robot making. The women are rising and will soon take over. LOL, j/k.

[Tytus Gerrish]

Aperently u havent seen this.....
http://www.7leaflets.i8.com/photo.html

We had 4 girls on the team and usually 2 of us were in the shop at a time...occasionally we got all 4 though.. =)

[Alexander McGee]

I am proud to say that my team has girls on our pit crew, and an equal number of boys and girls, 9 and 9.

Thats primarilly why we have Lady Thunder, cause it makes things more interisting...

Anyways, our girls do everything that the guys do. In fact, our best aluminum welder is a girl.

And, our girls were in charge of our arms this year. You know, the ones that were deemed illegal via update 20, GM 31????

Pretty imprressive girls!

[Meredith Rice]

Being from an all girls team (433 Firebirds, and yes we did kick butt in that match Fembots, 692) it is pretty obvious that out girls do all the work. So yes we must handle the building as well as the pr and artsy side of robotics. And we must accomplish this all with just about 10 members. We are very proud of our team and the relationship we have with our (male) engineers/mentors. We all overcome whatever fears or embarrassments we have around powertools pretty quickly.

I am still suprised at how many people we have apporach us, amazed at what we accomplish each year while being an all girls team. I am more impressed when I see a lone female hard at work in a pit full of guys. Coming from an all girls school makes it easy for us. All the power to you girls doing it on ur own!!