*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! 
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.
Heh…that’s 2 more than me.
im 15 years, 6 months, 2 days single. god it sucks.
*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.
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…
We made contacts at the Conference.
LA Society of Women Engineers wrote an article about our team, and gave us inside scoop on funding.
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*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:rolleyes: :DHe could be 50. 
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
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! 
i know its just that the thread migrated to that.
Still we need more girls. our PR people arent doing the greatest job of advertising robotics. (wait… do we even have a PR team?!?)
PR team? our entire robotics team is part of our PR team. When you go to a very very small school (read: less than 400 kids total in the h.s.) everyone learns to multitask very quickly;)
I’m trying to get there!
Our team is made up of 2 rival schools. As RUHS parent of RUHS robotics’ president I’m in the know, can quickly take advantage of publicity opportunities, respond to reporter’s requests.
However just the moment before reading your post I was emailed by the other school that yearbook had been begging several times for yearbook photos, and now he was asking my help to get them off his back. Wha?!@?
I think its great having the girls around…they are a lot more into the cheerin aspects and having a good time…especialy team 128… they came and rooted us on quite a few times and they were a blast to be around.
*Originally posted by NKhockey09 *
**I think its great having the girls around…they are a lot more into the cheerin aspects and having a good time…especialy team 128… they came and rooted us on quite a few times and they were a blast to be around. **
Je suis d’accord!<----please excuse my bad french:rolleyes:
i will now stop my whining about girls NOT joining our team. We have had a massive exploison of girls joining our team in the past week. we now have about 10 girls! (Maybe the Diablo girls will rise again!!!)
Maybe the Diablo girls will rise again!!
hey if they do and we are at a competition with u guys…send them over to us! multi-team cheering sections are awesome!
*Originally posted by Mimi Brown *
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hey if they do and we are at a competition with u guys…send them over to us! multi-team cheering sections are awesome! **
if they do rise again and arent making money off of weird fundraisers (ie. selling Hugs and Kisses[the real thing not hersheys chocolate] where they made 80 some dollars), i’ll try and get them to cheer. multiteam cheering sections are cooler if you are partnered up with that other team in a match.
Ian
-desperately hoping that the Diablo girls will rise again…
My team has about 15 girls give or take alil more this year! We started off last year w/ about 9 an this year we have so many more. I know from my school most girls dont care about robotics an think its “a guy thing” but if you look at it in the perspective as jobs when you get older, there are a number of females who do PR work, who finance, who design websites, who program, an those who are engineers! I think some girls are to chicken to get dirty and dont wanna do the building they think robotics is all about. Or maybe they have the perspective its to nerdy. Me, i could care less if i’m called a nerd, but if u look at a number of the teams an people you meet at competitions they are not nerds, or geeks, an have great personalities! They are normal people who enjoy doing things that will get them far in life. If someone doesnt want to take the time see what robotics is all about then they should not talk bad about FIRST and the people in it! We are normal high school students working together, an if you ask me i’ve never had an issue w/ any team or FIRSTer in my career of being involved with the FIRST program no matter where i went. I am proud of all the girls involved in FIRST and it shows we can do anything if we put our mind to it! To all the girls involved with FIRST way to go an keep up the good work!!!
By the way sorry to bring back an old thread, I wanted to let my opinon on this out there. Take it however you please.