It’s been a busy competition season!  Our chairman’s team presented on March 14th and all three FIRST at Home challenge teams finished their projects and judging occurred for all teams the week of March 22nd.  Read our other competition season blog post here for a review of each at home challenge.  Each team did a… Read more

In light of Women’s History month, it is important to highlight the amazing contributions of many women to society. As an all girl’s robotics team, Girls of Steel works to promote the contributions of women in STEM in order to inspire young people to pursue their passions in STEM. We used to do this through… Read more

Competition season for Girls of Steel kicked off on January 9th!  This year, FRC teams have a choice of three different virtual challenges, INFINITE RECHARGE at Home, Game Design Challenge, and the FIRST Innovation Challenge.  The INFINITE RECHARGE at Home challenge engages teams in two ways: teams can compete for judged awards using their 2020/2021 robot… Read more

At the All Hands Meeting on January 12th, Girls of Steel was fortunate to have Helen Greiner as a guest speaker! Ms. Greiner grew up in London, but moved to the United States as a young girl and later attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  She was inspired to get involved in robotics by… Read more

When the whole world was shutting down in March, Delphi was hard at work developing COVIDcast, a map to track and record COVID-19 data. Girls of Steel joined the effort in May, just as the platform was being launched. This was not Delphi’s first rodeo. They had been reporting data for influenza since 2013 on… Read more

Welcome to the Girls of Steel FTC teams’ updates about the rest of our season. In case you missed it, here’s our first blog. Unfortunately we were unable to do any hands on work with robots during the 12 weeks of preseason, but we still had a great time.  We divided into 3 teams and… Read more

On December 6, 2020, the Girls of Steel hosted our first session of “Rosie Talks”, a webinar series that aims to introduce and celebrate the experiences and accomplishments of girls and women involved in STEM from across the Pittsburgh area.  This session, our speakers were Anna Nesbitt, Girls of Steel member and a senior at… Read more

While this has been an unprecedented year for everyone, the Girls of Steel lived up to their reputation of representing Rosie the Riveter—exceeding expectations and by delivering quality programs to our community. Below is a recap of some of the highlights from 2020. Details and more photos are available in the blog posts linked below.… Read more

The business and technical subteams had their final week of preseason the week of December 14th.  Despite the different circumstances this year, each subteam achieved many of their goals.  Here is a summary from every subteam on what they accomplished this preseason.  In case you missed it, here’s our first preseason blog post. Business Subteams… Read more

  Girls of Steel FIRST LEGO League Projects – RePLAY Our four virtual FIRST LEGO teams (37 boys and girls in grades 4 to 7) met once a week from September 19 until Demo Day on December 12, 2020. They wanted to share with you highlights of their RePLAY innovation projects.  Their challenge was to… Read more