Status of Women committee  The university scholarships are awarded the same as any scholarship would be awarded. Some of them are phenomenal, with x number of dollars over four years. It would be the universities that are not using any kind of determination as to whether it's a boy or a girl receiving a sc

Status of Women committee  No, those are—

Status of Women committee  Also, it's their experience in FIRST as well.

Status of Women committee  Especially when they're going off to university, having someone in a mentorship position is key. Most often, for girls who have been through a program and are really finding their way, if they've had an experience in FIRST we know that they've developed the competencies they need

Status of Women committee  That was in 2002.

Status of Women committee  I don't have that specifically, but if you look at the 10 teams in Canada and the probably 30 girls on each one, you can get a bit of a ballpark on that. I can tell you that of the 23 all-girls teams in the world, 10 of them are in Canada.

Status of Women committee  Yes, it's pretty awesome, actually.

Status of Women committee  Getting the system to work together is one of the pieces that FIRST has really been able to do through the support. As Bonnie said, if you're not worrying about the funding it gives you the opportunity to reflect and plan to be able to engage with community partners across the co

Status of Women committee  I don't have all the metrics for it, but what I would like to say is that in being able to work in areas that are under-resourced, it's about the opportunity that FIRST has to be able to meet the needs of the teachers in the schools or the board when they put their hand up and sa

Status of Women committee  I think if you give girls role models they're going to thrive because they are going to aspire to that. They will believe that if someone else has done it, I can too. What I have seen in all-girl teams is the opportunity for girls to do anything. They are the electrical engineers

Status of Women committee  I would certainly support that. In preparing the brief I did quite a bit of research, which I really thoroughly enjoyed—and I mean that sincerely. There's a wonderful magazine that was published by the American Association of University Women that focuses on STEM. It has two hu

Status of Women committee  I think women certainly want job satisfaction. That's been well documented. If they're finding a place where they understand...and if a program like FIRST or any of these are able to help girls understand what engineering is and whether this is the place where they're going to fe

Status of Women committee  Initially I was in a coed school for a long time. What I saw happening time and time again in a science lab was that the girls would be sitting back taking the notes and the boys would have their noses in the test tubes, because the girls would often defer to the boys. I believe

Status of Women committee  A recommendation would be to encourage universities and colleges so that we are looking at skilled trades as well as professional choices to be made available, and for universities to encourage funding in those ways for students.

Status of Women committee  For scholarships, yes, and as you'll see from the slide we presented around the sponsorships we've been able to generate, there are sponsorships from those different organizations, companies, and whatnot. In the United States, NASA is one of the major sponsors, and the profound i