8-23-11

Yesterday in Robotics we saw a video about 'The Chairman's Award' in the video the first thing that really struck me as unfair was about the girl who said that she stayed after school for Robotics and when she told her father about it, he didn't believe her, he thought that she wasn't staying to build robots, she stayed to meet boys. Also her father strongly believed that women should not be in engineering and construction, that it was a job for a man. Only until she took him to one of her interviews to get a job he believed that she was actually doing this and was interested in it. That astonished me, to see that people living in this generation still had that kind of mentality, to still believe that women couldn't do certain jobs just because they were 'woman' and were viewed as weaker.

8-18-11

       Yesterday was my first day staying afters school for Robotics, I also stayed to be a Lego Referee. In that meeting for the lego referee, they explained some rules from the lego competition but they did not guarantee that those rules will stay the same. They also said that in the competition they rules tend to change a lot, we can't print them out because it will be a waste of paper, that's how often they change the rules. That part concerned me a bit, I don't have the best memory, and I'm afraid that I might not be able to memorize some of the rules. Afterward we had to gather in the hall way and they talked about the camping trip that is coming up, also about [i believe] Dean Kamen is coming to Phoenix and the team wants to go attend that. After that, we came back in and I started working on the project we had to start on.

Week

This is my first post, I'm currently in Science Seminar. I've been watching videos of the team, and their achievements over the past years. It was very inspiring how they can compete against schools that more wealthier, and enter a competition against them and yet that advantage doesn't help them much. I think I'm interested at the moment on being in mechanical and video editing. I hope to get more active in Robotics, and hopefully I become an important member in this group.