Why is it that not many girls are into robotics?

[hansTP2S]

It appears that I have too much negative reputation to edit/delete my post (-227). I apologize for what I said, I don't know why I said it. I should leave the house more.

[DarkJedi613]

As was said before - we have a few girls on our team, and they're treated the same as all the other members. No one cares that they're girls. I think an important point is that when they do seem interested in being in robotics, they must be treated the same as all other new members - teach them things they need to be taught, show them around the machine shop, etc. But don't treat them differently, either way that is - don't treat them poorly, or better, or as if they can only do certain things.

I'm not sure if it the girls that we have on our team or if its something else, but most of the girls don't have a problem speaking up about ideas, asking for help if they need it or just asking for one of the more experienced members on the team to explain it.

[davelu]

we don't treat our club girls the same, we treat them better than how we treat each other, beacuse the teacher gets mad if the girls leave and then he's gonna lecture us for a hour or 2 about how sexist the club is.

well, most of us blame it on the school for not having more girls, i'll say 90% of the school is guys the rest is girls. the worst thing is in almost all my classes there are barely any girls, most of the time its all guys class.

[- Raven -]

While I'll agree that girls are in the minority in this sort of field, I find it encouraging that there ARE more girls interested in engineering and other such subjects than there were say, a decade ago perhaps. Maths/Science subjects are stereotypically male-dominated. I pride myself on being an exception to the girly-girl rule-- stubbornly refused to wear dresses as a young child, was more interested in cars than dolls, and have been keen to get into the science sector for my career. Well, hopefully anyway. Plus, our team has it's female members. In fact, our current captain happens to be female. And she makes a great team captain, too.

Alot of my friends that arent in robotics always wonder why i do it etc. like i try to explain it to them and they dont get it so then they think its a waste of time and stupid. So because of that i think alot of girls arent into robotics is because they dont understand what it is until they come to a competetion or come to a meeting or whatever.

[mandyo]

Our team has 13 girls this year, and most are faithful members. We were able to improve the recruitment of females because our coach (that's me) is a female and engineer. I think girls enjoy robotics, but need to feel connected to the team. I don't think boys need that as much as the girls do. BTW half of our girls LOVE to build.

[greencactus3]

actually that must be only your team. our single girl was one of the most important designer/builder on our team

[psych0gambit]

I am so retarded, I just found out that we have like three times more girls than guys on our team . So nvm my earlier post about why there isnt that many girls that is into engineering and robotics.

[FlipperGiggles]

Originally Posted by busterblade16

I am serious about this. Why dont they?

I've wondered the same thing. I'm a girl and I LOVE robotics. We have about 4 girls on our team...and that's after several people quit. So far, I'm the only girl flying to nationals with 616. I wish more girls would get involved, but they just don't realize how great it really is.

[Lil_moe]

Originally Posted by busterblade16

I am serious about this. Why dont they?

our team has the same problem the girls hardly show up

[ymesays]

Originally Posted by Lil_moe

our team has the same problem the girls hardly show up

wow i thought our guys were bad

[ymesays]

Originally Posted by busterblade16

I am serious about this. Why dont they?

ok thats not true! Team 126 there are way more girls then guys...everywhere I look with our team there really isnt a place where you find a guy who isnt out numbered by girls...So i dont know how it is with your teams but thats how it is with Team 126!

GO GAEL FORCE

[Kris Mackinnon]

will being one of the girlie girls on my team I say the reason for the girls at 240 host spot doesn't join in cause none of them are really into building things that doesn't inculed their make-up secltion but also over half are to busy with their sports to join. 5 out of 7 girls at my school are inovole in some from of a sport. There is a totally of 3 girls on my team out of fifthteen people. But those on the team this year most of us are being allowed to do stuff without the men coming over and taking away your project.undefined

[Nhiem]

Robotics was such a success the first year that we entered that the next year [last year] we split it into TWO teams. 1219 [Boys] and 1309 [Girls]. It was unbelievably difficult to manage but we made it through =). However this year due to a lack of interest we shrunk down to just 1219 again but did probably even better. Thats probably because the "leaders" of both teams joined together hehe. FYI i'd say there were ~15-20 girls on team 1309.

[TheMuffinMan]

I think Kris had a good point, alot of girls are more involved in other things, apperances and sports than something along the lines of FIRST. I tried explaining what we did to my girlfriend and it went completely over her head she wanted to see a C3P0 walking android thing, and didn't quite grasp what our goal was. Then you've got some people that think we're off to make a Battle Bot thing with flame throwers etc, then those people get dissapointed when they learn we're just playing with triangles haha. Like my friend said earlier, all of the girls on our team are mostly working on PR stuff, handouts, banner, etc AND they're our officers, so they may not be hands-on with the robot but they sure push us along (except for the one meeting they all watched The Notebook and cried alow )