October 3, 2024 • 15 mins
As more girls and young women are being encouraged to get into science, technology, engineering and maths, meet the three Ulladulla High School students who have taken Lego to next level by way of robotics!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heartshol Haven.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Gooday, I'm Pete Andrea. There once was a time when
the genre of sci fi or Hollywood was the prime
driver of how we viewed a robot. Think C three
PO or R two D two in Star Wars, or
perhaps the robot in the classic seventies TV series Lost
in Space SAT or Will Robinson danger Well. The earliest
(00:24):
robots as we know them were actually designed and created
in the early nineteen fifties by an inventor from Louisville,
Kentucky called George C. Devil. He created Uni Mate, but
nobody actually bought his idea. Of course, these days, AI
is making robots more and more human in movement and thinking,
and that's where the next generation comes in. You're about
(00:47):
to meet three very switched on year ten students from
La Dulla High School, Charlotte McDonnell, Sarang O'Neill and Darcy Stewart.
These young ladies go by the name of the Sussex Smashers.
They're the latest success stories from the first Lego League,
which is a creative thinking program using technology and yet Lego.
(01:07):
The girls spend their time devising, designing, and creating robots,
and they have big ideas. Thank you ladies for joining me.
First of all, starting from our left, can I get
your name.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh, my name's Charlotte, my name's Arung, my name is Darcy.
And you're all in year ten at Aladalla High School.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Thank you very much. Well, welcome to my heartshal Haven Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now, three young ladies at high school. One would expect
you m I'll be interested in things like fashion, hair design, makeup,
things like that, but not you three. Nope, you're into
something very specific, spectacular and exciting and it's called robotics.
(01:54):
First of all, Charlotte, how did you get involved?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, when I was in it, my sister started a
robotics team, and as any younger sister does anythink my
sister did, I need to do it too. So I
made my own team and we did FL junior and
there was about six of us girls. So through the years,
the teams stopped and changed, but we've been doing it
(02:20):
for about ten years now.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Soring, you're one of the new faces almost.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Well, I started FL when I was in year three
with a different team in my primary school, but I
left that team to move overseas. But later on, when
I met these guys. I didn't actually know they had
a robotics team, but we became friends. And then well,
when they got their team started up again, I joined.
Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Darcy, Yes, what you want to robotics?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh well, Lottie's been my best friend for a very
long time, Charlotte, sorry, And whatever she did, I did too.
And when I first moved down to Sussex, I found
it fascinating robotics, so I took it on and I
haven't left since.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now when we talk about robotics, everyone thinks of a
robot Okay, so is that what you're doing. What does
the course involve? Do you have to design and then
manufacture and put it all together and make sure it
works obviously? Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So we do robotics through an organization called First and
so right now we're in a program called fl So
that's First Lego League and so there's three parts to
the program. So there's the Project, which is we get
a theme and a problem that we have to research
and come up with a solution that will then present
(03:45):
to the judges at competition. And then we also have
the Robotics Challenge, which we get a new kind of
board like emissions that the robot has to do, and
we have to build attachments and program the robot and
everything else. And then there's also core values, which is
just how like our team work and how we work together.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Right, So sering it's not like robotic wars where they
go out and cut each other up.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
No, there's like little missions on the board. They're different
every year that we have dissolve and complete.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So it's really is it's a team effort.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, very to do with like cooperation, collaboration.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, And what do you think is exciting about robotics?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I just like how many opportunities arise from giving it
a go. Like, for example, Lottie's sister Emily, she just
moved to America and she's studying engineering in America, megatronic engineering,
which she got into through Lego Robotics. Megatronic engineering. What's
(04:48):
that It's like machinery and how it works. And yeah,
I'm sure Lodie, yep.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So she got into that through another program in First
which is called FRC, which is First Robotics. So it's
more metals and building more robots and it's kind of
the next level up from what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's more like Robot Wars.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, definitely much bigger robots.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Right. And so you have been to international competitions I believe, ladies.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
We have.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Our most recent one was in Sydney. It was the
Asia Pacific Open Championship, which we wont to award there
working second place for Core Values.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Which is the second most prestigious award.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yep, right, Okay, so you know you're not working around
it's a serious little piece of research.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And whatnot you do, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Is there a lot of collaboration with your teachers and
whatnot as well? Do they help out?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, So we are actually a community based team and
we don't do anything at school. We do it in
our spare time and our coach. Yeah, they thoroughly help
us understand challenges and overcome things that we find very difficult.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And so, ladies, how do you think you know how
good are your coaches?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Our coaches are very good and also our mentors, so
graduated team members they definitely come back and help a
lot as well because they still just really love doing it.
And so whenever we get stuck, we go ask them
and try and get a new perspective or our coaches
and they're very good at helping explain a problem in
a new way.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, And so how difficult is it when you first
take that problem to find that solution? Is it a
long train of thought and events and mistakes.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, so we definitely have to change our attachments and
programming a lot. We usually keep the first like draft
and we always make a new one so we can
see how much you've changed and grown, and we always
like present how much we've iterated our attachments and Rover
designed and also with like the project, it always takes
(07:02):
us ages to come up with like the idea that
we're going to focus on.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Because there's like so many things that we want to
explore and so many potential options, but you have to
find one that's realistic and really excites us.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Is it more about solving day to day issues or
developing technology to help out certain things?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So every season, like we said, there is a new
problem that we have to solve, and so throughout the
seasons and years, we've done lots of different solutions. So
we've built apps and we've designed new technologies and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So it's not just hands on, you're actually developing apps
as well.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, Yeah, last season we developed a website and app
for our challenge.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, it's We called it challengeable and it inspired all
ages to get active and creative through exploring a variety
of different hobbies.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Wow, that's really that's that's really so you're actually in
spir ing other young people. Yeah, more soon of our
chat with Charlotte Sarrange and Darcy from the Sussex Smashes
and how the girls have held their own against other
international teams with their latest project.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I Heart Shoalhaven. I Heart shoal Haven.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Peter Andrea back with you and now more from Charlotte
Sarrange and Darcy from Sussex Inlet, who have not long
returned from the Asia Pacific Open Championship of the first
Lego League. It's a worldwide phenomenon and highly contested. The
girls did the shoal Haven proud, winning a highly commanded
award for their robot design. And these three friends can't
(08:40):
get enough of the research, coding and problem solving that
comes with developing anything with technology. In the years you've
been doing all this, what's the most exciting robot that
you've come up with?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I think probably the year during COVID where a lot
of the competitions were actually virtual. That was the year
we actually won Internationals.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
We won the Championship award.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, so it was very very exciting, and I think
the robot that year, it was definitely a new experience
for all of us because we've been doing it for
years in person, and we show up and you got
lots of nerves on the day and it was really
interesting having to record things and send them in and
doing zooms for our judging. And when the awards were
(09:28):
getting announced, we were just sitting there and it went
past the award that we thought we were going to get,
which was the Robot Engineering Award. Because our robot that
year was fantastic. We'd all worked really really hard.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What did it do well?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It completed almost every mission on the board, which is
very uncommon for the competition because you only have two
and a half minutes to complete all what fifteen missions
on the board. Yeah, and we completed all of them
in a pretty good time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Wow. And so does that mean moving parts and picking
up things, more moving things.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Lots of different movements.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
So there's lots of different challenges on the board. So
some things you have to push or pull somethings you
have to pick up somethings you have to jiggle around,
and you have to take things from different areas of
the board, and it's really hard to kind of strategize
in what audio going to do the missions, because there's
certain ways that will allow you to do more in
a more timely matter, because like we said, we only
have two and a half minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So that's pretty fascinating, and that you've got to look
at the problem and then work out a solution and
then make it work out. Frustrating, can that be?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Yeah, it can be pretty frustrating when things don't work
and things don't line up, and especially our competitions, and
there's a little pressure and then like the robot stops
working and there's some like little issue.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What you're right out of the battery.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, it's very annoying.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Or sometimes you like forget to plug in motors and
the robot's just sitting there stationary and we're like, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Moving around in circles.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It sounds like a robot arounding circles. So each of
you you're in year ten, so year twelve is UNI
calling and robotics calling in the future for yourselves.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, yeah, well maybe not robotics in particular, but I
can definitely use those skills in basically any career that
you could think of. Like we have the app design
that we're talking about, and this season we're looking at
how bushfires have affected the ocean, and that whole scientific
(11:34):
research is really fascinating. So I'm exploring what we all
are exploring lots of career paths and that could lead
to a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It can lead to climate change, can climate repair? Yeah, wow,
Serene for.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
You, Yeah, I think I'm definitely interested in something to
do with science.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
For my year eleven twelve electors, I definitely chosen a
lot of science subjects. So that's something I'm really interested
in for the future.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I think robotics is just you can do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I think there's really lots of options that you can
take robotics. I think it's all really really interesting, and
I think it's a really rewarding career path if you
go down it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
In the past, there's been mainly our scientists have been blokes, okay,
and there's been a real push for ladies to become
a scientist. So you're on board with that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, definitely absolutely. Well, yeah, we've always been an all
girls team, so powering through.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And is that because the guys aren't interested or they're
probably a bit scared of us?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, but yeah, even in first there are not as
many girls in STEM of course, So when we go
and we see other girls in teams or other all
girls teams, and he's really rewarding and we chat with
them and listen to their experiences and they listen to us,
and it's really really nice to just talk to other
girls in STEM.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Like when we go to competition, we always see like
a lot of guys. There's a lot of like all
boy teams, but not very many all girl teams at all.
So yeah, it's really like rewarding to be one of
those teams to be inspiring others.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It must be good when you do really well at
the comp and all these blokes and looking at you
girls really like it must give you a lot of confidence.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, absolutely, And it's always awesome when there's heaps of
young girls, especially they you can sometimes see like they're
in awe like of other girls pushing through and succeeding,
and it just feels so awesome to just say you
can do that too.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Would you encourage other young people, not just girls, but
other young people to get involved, Absolutely without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I think this is a great a great program for
anyone to do, no matter your interest. I think there's
something for everybody. And I think it's just really good
at teaching you life skills and problem solving things like that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
And even if you're not that interested in robotics, that
can activity you get in your community as well, and
like new friends as well. Like whenever we go to
international competitions, we sometimes see different teams from around the
world and we're like, hey, I remember you, and you
just have a like a blast that. Like last competition
(14:16):
went for four days, four full days of activities. We
went to zoos, we did discos, what else did and
it was so fun. Just you create a real bond.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah right, well, it's very very exciting. I'm glad I
spoke to you of it because it really has opened
up my eyes. And let's see we end up in
say five years time, you're going to ring me up
and chat about what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Then sure, why not?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah sounds brilliant.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Thank you, ladies, Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The Sussex Smashes, robotic team smashing the world of stem
for young women in the Jean Haven, and all built
on bright ideas and teamwork. That's I Heart shall Haven
for this week, supported by the new South Wales State Government.
I'm Pete Andrea.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Catch you next week. I Heart shall Haven
I heartshol Haven.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Gooday, I'm Pete Andrea. There once was a time when
the genre of sci fi or Hollywood was the prime
driver of how we viewed a robot. Think C three
PO or R two D two in Star Wars, or
perhaps the robot in the classic seventies TV series Lost
in Space SAT or Will Robinson danger Well. The earliest
(00:24):
robots as we know them were actually designed and created
in the early nineteen fifties by an inventor from Louisville,
Kentucky called George C. Devil. He created Uni Mate, but
nobody actually bought his idea. Of course, these days, AI
is making robots more and more human in movement and thinking,
and that's where the next generation comes in. You're about
(00:47):
to meet three very switched on year ten students from
La Dulla High School, Charlotte McDonnell, Sarang O'Neill and Darcy Stewart.
These young ladies go by the name of the Sussex Smashers.
They're the latest success stories from the first Lego League,
which is a creative thinking program using technology and yet Lego.
(01:07):
The girls spend their time devising, designing, and creating robots,
and they have big ideas. Thank you ladies for joining me.
First of all, starting from our left, can I get
your name.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Oh, my name's Charlotte, my name's Arung, my name is Darcy.
And you're all in year ten at Aladalla High School.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Thank you very much. Well, welcome to my heartshal Haven Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Thanks for having us.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Now, three young ladies at high school. One would expect
you m I'll be interested in things like fashion, hair design, makeup,
things like that, but not you three. Nope, you're into
something very specific, spectacular and exciting and it's called robotics.
(01:54):
First of all, Charlotte, how did you get involved?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, when I was in it, my sister started a
robotics team, and as any younger sister does anythink my
sister did, I need to do it too. So I
made my own team and we did FL junior and
there was about six of us girls. So through the years,
the teams stopped and changed, but we've been doing it
(02:20):
for about ten years now.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Soring, you're one of the new faces almost.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Well, I started FL when I was in year three
with a different team in my primary school, but I
left that team to move overseas. But later on, when
I met these guys. I didn't actually know they had
a robotics team, but we became friends. And then well,
when they got their team started up again, I joined.
Yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Darcy, Yes, what you want to robotics?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh well, Lottie's been my best friend for a very
long time, Charlotte, sorry, And whatever she did, I did too.
And when I first moved down to Sussex, I found
it fascinating robotics, so I took it on and I
haven't left since.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now when we talk about robotics, everyone thinks of a
robot Okay, so is that what you're doing. What does
the course involve? Do you have to design and then
manufacture and put it all together and make sure it
works obviously? Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So we do robotics through an organization called First and
so right now we're in a program called fl So
that's First Lego League and so there's three parts to
the program. So there's the Project, which is we get
a theme and a problem that we have to research
and come up with a solution that will then present
(03:45):
to the judges at competition. And then we also have
the Robotics Challenge, which we get a new kind of
board like emissions that the robot has to do, and
we have to build attachments and program the robot and
everything else. And then there's also core values, which is
just how like our team work and how we work together.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Right, So sering it's not like robotic wars where they
go out and cut each other up.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
No, there's like little missions on the board. They're different
every year that we have dissolve and complete.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So it's really is it's a team effort.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, very to do with like cooperation, collaboration.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah, And what do you think is exciting about robotics?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I just like how many opportunities arise from giving it
a go. Like, for example, Lottie's sister Emily, she just
moved to America and she's studying engineering in America, megatronic engineering,
which she got into through Lego Robotics. Megatronic engineering. What's
(04:48):
that It's like machinery and how it works. And yeah,
I'm sure Lodie, yep.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
So she got into that through another program in First
which is called FRC, which is First Robotics. So it's
more metals and building more robots and it's kind of
the next level up from what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's more like Robot Wars.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, definitely much bigger robots.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Right. And so you have been to international competitions I believe, ladies.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
We have.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Our most recent one was in Sydney. It was the
Asia Pacific Open Championship, which we wont to award there
working second place for Core Values.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Which is the second most prestigious award.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yep, right, Okay, so you know you're not working around
it's a serious little piece of research.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And whatnot you do, yes, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Is there a lot of collaboration with your teachers and
whatnot as well? Do they help out?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, So we are actually a community based team and
we don't do anything at school. We do it in
our spare time and our coach. Yeah, they thoroughly help
us understand challenges and overcome things that we find very difficult.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
And so, ladies, how do you think you know how
good are your coaches?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Our coaches are very good and also our mentors, so
graduated team members they definitely come back and help a
lot as well because they still just really love doing it.
And so whenever we get stuck, we go ask them
and try and get a new perspective or our coaches
and they're very good at helping explain a problem in
a new way.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Right, And so how difficult is it when you first
take that problem to find that solution? Is it a
long train of thought and events and mistakes.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, so we definitely have to change our attachments and
programming a lot. We usually keep the first like draft
and we always make a new one so we can
see how much you've changed and grown, and we always
like present how much we've iterated our attachments and Rover
designed and also with like the project, it always takes
(07:02):
us ages to come up with like the idea that
we're going to focus on.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Because there's like so many things that we want to
explore and so many potential options, but you have to
find one that's realistic and really excites us.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Is it more about solving day to day issues or
developing technology to help out certain things?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So every season, like we said, there is a new
problem that we have to solve, and so throughout the
seasons and years, we've done lots of different solutions. So
we've built apps and we've designed new technologies and things
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So it's not just hands on, you're actually developing apps
as well.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, Yeah, last season we developed a website and app
for our challenge.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, it's We called it challengeable and it inspired all
ages to get active and creative through exploring a variety
of different hobbies.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Wow, that's really that's that's really so you're actually in
spir ing other young people. Yeah, more soon of our
chat with Charlotte Sarrange and Darcy from the Sussex Smashes
and how the girls have held their own against other
international teams with their latest project.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I Heart Shoalhaven. I Heart shoal Haven.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Peter Andrea back with you and now more from Charlotte
Sarrange and Darcy from Sussex Inlet, who have not long
returned from the Asia Pacific Open Championship of the first
Lego League. It's a worldwide phenomenon and highly contested. The
girls did the shoal Haven proud, winning a highly commanded
award for their robot design. And these three friends can't
(08:40):
get enough of the research, coding and problem solving that
comes with developing anything with technology. In the years you've
been doing all this, what's the most exciting robot that
you've come up with?
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I think probably the year during COVID where a lot
of the competitions were actually virtual. That was the year
we actually won Internationals.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
We won the Championship award.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, so it was very very exciting, and I think
the robot that year, it was definitely a new experience
for all of us because we've been doing it for
years in person, and we show up and you got
lots of nerves on the day and it was really
interesting having to record things and send them in and
doing zooms for our judging. And when the awards were
(09:28):
getting announced, we were just sitting there and it went
past the award that we thought we were going to get,
which was the Robot Engineering Award. Because our robot that
year was fantastic. We'd all worked really really hard.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What did it do well?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It completed almost every mission on the board, which is
very uncommon for the competition because you only have two
and a half minutes to complete all what fifteen missions
on the board. Yeah, and we completed all of them
in a pretty good time.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Wow. And so does that mean moving parts and picking
up things, more moving things.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Lots of different movements.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
So there's lots of different challenges on the board. So
some things you have to push or pull somethings you
have to pick up somethings you have to jiggle around,
and you have to take things from different areas of
the board, and it's really hard to kind of strategize
in what audio going to do the missions, because there's
certain ways that will allow you to do more in
a more timely matter, because like we said, we only
have two and a half minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So that's pretty fascinating, and that you've got to look
at the problem and then work out a solution and
then make it work out. Frustrating, can that be?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Yeah, it can be pretty frustrating when things don't work
and things don't line up, and especially our competitions, and
there's a little pressure and then like the robot stops
working and there's some like little issue.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
What you're right out of the battery.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, it's very annoying.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Or sometimes you like forget to plug in motors and
the robot's just sitting there stationary and we're like, oh
my god.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Moving around in circles.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It sounds like a robot arounding circles. So each of
you you're in year ten, so year twelve is UNI
calling and robotics calling in the future for yourselves.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, yeah, well maybe not robotics in particular, but I
can definitely use those skills in basically any career that
you could think of. Like we have the app design
that we're talking about, and this season we're looking at
how bushfires have affected the ocean, and that whole scientific
(11:34):
research is really fascinating. So I'm exploring what we all
are exploring lots of career paths and that could lead
to a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It can lead to climate change, can climate repair? Yeah, wow,
Serene for.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
You, Yeah, I think I'm definitely interested in something to
do with science.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
For my year eleven twelve electors, I definitely chosen a
lot of science subjects. So that's something I'm really interested
in for the future.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I think robotics is just you can do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I think there's really lots of options that you can
take robotics. I think it's all really really interesting, and
I think it's a really rewarding career path if you
go down it.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
In the past, there's been mainly our scientists have been blokes, okay,
and there's been a real push for ladies to become
a scientist. So you're on board with that.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, definitely absolutely. Well, yeah, we've always been an all
girls team, so powering through.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And is that because the guys aren't interested or they're
probably a bit scared of us?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, but yeah, even in first there are not as
many girls in STEM of course, So when we go
and we see other girls in teams or other all
girls teams, and he's really rewarding and we chat with
them and listen to their experiences and they listen to us,
and it's really really nice to just talk to other
girls in STEM.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Like when we go to competition, we always see like
a lot of guys. There's a lot of like all
boy teams, but not very many all girl teams at all.
So yeah, it's really like rewarding to be one of
those teams to be inspiring others.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It must be good when you do really well at
the comp and all these blokes and looking at you
girls really like it must give you a lot of confidence.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah, absolutely, And it's always awesome when there's heaps of
young girls, especially they you can sometimes see like they're
in awe like of other girls pushing through and succeeding,
and it just feels so awesome to just say you
can do that too.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Would you encourage other young people, not just girls, but
other young people to get involved, Absolutely without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
I think this is a great a great program for
anyone to do, no matter your interest. I think there's
something for everybody. And I think it's just really good
at teaching you life skills and problem solving things like that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
And even if you're not that interested in robotics, that
can activity you get in your community as well, and
like new friends as well. Like whenever we go to
international competitions, we sometimes see different teams from around the
world and we're like, hey, I remember you, and you
just have a like a blast that. Like last competition
(14:16):
went for four days, four full days of activities. We
went to zoos, we did discos, what else did and
it was so fun. Just you create a real bond.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah right, well, it's very very exciting. I'm glad I
spoke to you of it because it really has opened
up my eyes. And let's see we end up in
say five years time, you're going to ring me up
and chat about what you're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Then sure, why not?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah sounds brilliant.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Thank you, ladies, Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The Sussex Smashes, robotic team smashing the world of stem
for young women in the Jean Haven, and all built
on bright ideas and teamwork. That's I Heart shall Haven
for this week, supported by the new South Wales State Government.
I'm Pete Andrea.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Catch you next week. I Heart shall Haven
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