photos courtesy of Ridgewood High School
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, on November 19th, Ridgewood High School hosted the First Tech Challenge League Meet, a competitive robotics competition. The RHS team played welcomed 24 teams from across the region. Each team consisting of up to 15 students must design, build and operate a robot.
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Additionally, the challenge requires programming the robot to work autonomously, as well as via remote control to move game pieces in a playing field. Teams must work together in alliances to try and score the most points. Although the RHS team’s robot “Chippy” failed to qualify for the finals, the team gained valuable experience and had lots of fun as a first-time host. The team thanks all of the great volunteers who helped pull off a successful event and looks forward to the next event in January.
It’s 2022 and only one female on the team . . . we are NOT doing enough to engage females in STEM. My sons undergraduate engineering program, at a Big Ten School, was around 75% male that percentage increases at “engineeering” institutions. Sad that this hasn’t changed since 40 years ago when I went to college and was the only female.
Maybe more men than women ARE INTERESTED in STEM.
How about supporting women FOR WHAT THEY WANT TO DO and NOT TRYING TO FORCE THEM TO DO WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO.?
You are no better than complaining that we are NOT doing enough to engage females in housekeeping and childbearing. Don’t you see that?