My organization is the Women's Mini Baja at Embry- Riddle. I have been a part of this club for 18 months now. This was a good way for me to get to know people at school, particularly girls.
The Baja team designe, manufacture, test and drive the car themselves. We start planning already in May or June each year, but we start the work when school starts up in August. The "prize" (as we see it), for a year of hard work, is seeing the results in a 4-day event at the end of the spring semester. There we compete against about 100 other university teams. We are the only all-women's team and have two female advisors. In this competition we get to see how solid and good our car is in different events and we get to show that girls can do the same engineering work as boys. We have the last few years placed in the middle of group, what we are very happy with! We are still a pretty new club.
We gathering girls from different engineering departments and get to know each other. We also promote engineering to other women and try to get them interested in what we do; hopefully so interested that they start at Embry-Riddle and join our club!
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