This all-female team of American college students is taking the robotics competition circuit by storm.
The Arizona State University team, Desert WAVE , was formed last August and they say they are one of just two all-female robotics teams competing in the world, along with a team at Texas A&M University.
Foster said she and her teammates are often the only female -- or one of just a few -- in their engineering, mechanical system, robotics and computer science classes. The team was formed with help from the Si Se Puede Foundation, an Arizona-based organization that provides opportunities to kids in underserved communities. The foundation's name translates in English to"yes you can."
"I thought let’s make an all-women team to see if we can disprove some of the stereotypes about women in engineering," said Lajvardi, who described himself as"stunned" by the statistics."If our team causes another team to form and then other, eventually the idea is it won’t be such a novelty to have an all-women’s team and then we’ve achieved success."
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