Hi, we are Emma and Rhea and we are the authors of this Girl Power Story book. We are a part of VEX IQ Team 359A Waialua Robotics, The Hawaiian Kids. We are trying to reach out to other girls and inspire them to participate in robotics, and STEM. W...
What We Think about Girl Powered and Our Future Aspriations
When we hear Girl Powered we think about inspiring other girls to participate in robotics and STEM subjects. We think about how we can inspire other girls to get involved and do jobs like building and programming, documentation. Girls can do anything we put our mind to, even jobs that are usually taken by boys, and girls can do things just as good as boys can if not better.
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The Girl Powered logo.
This idea is reflected in our team's approach to robotics. The boys will sometimes step down and let us build a part of the robot or they would let us help them out. We are always very active in the design process. Sometimes, we can solve a problem that the boys can't solve or Rhea will end up driving better than our other driver. She can do our whole skills routine within the time limit and sometimes she would score all 65 points! Rhea, Emma, and one other teammate will step up and tell the other driver how he can improve his part of the routine. Often, Rhea and Emma would be able to solve engineering problems that the boys couldn't solve.
Our Future Aspirations
Working in robotics has definitely changed our perspective of engineering. Before doing robotics, we weren't really sure what we wanted to do after we graduate high school. We knew we wanted to go to college, but what to study? We felt like engineering was more of a boy thing and we weren't super interested in engineering. We had joined robotics, because we heard that it was really fun, and we both like to be challenged. Even though engineering seems more like a boy thing, we ended up enjoying robotics and we thought of becoming engineers in our future. Emma wants to go to M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and study there to become an aerospace engineer, and work for NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration).
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The logo for NASA
Rhea wants to go to University of Hawaii at Manoa and study there to get some type of job in the engineering field. We both want to pursue jobs in the engineering field and we thought that being in robotics would help us.
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Engineers, like us design the future.
We hope that being in robotics will help us get scholarships so that after we graduate high school we can get into the college we want to go to and it pay less tuition. We both know that it will be difficult for us to pursue these careers, and we know that we might be discriminated against because we are girls. That will not stop us from being in robotics. We can become engineers if we want to, and no one can stop us. Even though we are girls, we can have a job in the engineering field. We have... girl power!
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