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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #6
Our meeting on November 10th was full of excitement and learning. The meeting got started with a presentation from our technical leader, outlining important team information and events. Then we talked about the team culture of Girls of Steel with our mentor George focusing on being inclusive to all team members. Following our talk with…
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #5
November 3rd was our 5th meeting and it was super exciting! This week the turtle-elephant was added to our “zoo” to represent not having to carry a large burden alone and not feeling so stressed. Many girls are enjoying this portion of the all hands meeting because it shows universal ideas that everyone learns from!…
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #4
The 4th GoS preseason meeting was held on October 27th. The weekly meeting consisted of talks about many upcoming events, which are very important to the team. Then the team split up into their business groups, for about an hour, after doing another weekly “triad fun time” activity. This week’s triad activity was called “I…
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #3
On Tuesday, October 20th, Girls of Steel (GoS) held their 3rd weekly preseason meeting at Carnegie Mellon University. First, we went through the all hands presentation with the important announcements, dates, and upcoming events. After a detailed discussion about the nearing events, the team broke up into triads, or groups of three or four junior,…
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #2
October 13th was our second official preseason meeting. To kick off the meeting we started with our all hands meeting followed by some fun triad time. The whole team divided by grade level to play the human knot and see who could untangle the fastest, the seniors won by a landslide! The eighth graders split…
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2015-2016 Preseason Meeting #1
On Tuesday, October 6, we kicked off our 2015-2016 year. It was the first time we had all of this years girls together. In total our team will include 66 girls from 31 area schools. Our team’s junior member program has 17 eighth grade girls. With this program the girls will be meeting once a week to explore the…
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2015 Summer Camps Summary!
Wow! Girls of Steel had an incredibly busy and productive summer designing, leading and mentoring four of our very own camps! We kicked off the summer with the Girls of Steel NCWIT Aspire IT Summer Camp “Programming Your Future with Robotics!” at Carnegie Mellon University on June 15-19. The purpose of the camp…
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Girls of Steel Outreach!
Hi everyone! Well, it’s official! The FRC season is over. Where did the time go? It seems like we had our first preseason meeting a few weeks ago!! We had an exciting and eventful season, what with changing and improving Ada between all our competitions, winning Chairman’s, going to Champs, winning awards, and meeting so…
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Pipeline Presentation & Championships 2015
The last week and a half has really flown by!! We had a great time at champs (won two awards!! :)) and are celebrating, but sad to bring the season to a close. One of the most important parts of champs for me, the Media Lead of the team, was the presentation we gave on…
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Post-Season FRC Scrimmage
Hi everyone! This past Saturday, April 11th, we, along with another FRC team, SHARP, held the annual Post Season FRC Scrimmage at the CMU/Girls of Steel Robotics Practice Field. We had seven different teams come out to watch their robot go up against other FRC teams robots. The overarching theme for this event was “fun”.…