When I was in highschool, I was in a model rocket club, and the science olympiad club. The gender ratios for both were roughly 50:50 (3-4 female-male for the r

When I was in highschool, I was in a model rocket club, and the science olympiad club. The gender ratios for both were roughly 50:50 (3-4 female-male for the rocket club, I forget the exact numbers for the science olympiad club, somewhere around 10-10). Both clubs operated very smoothly. I think that you give highschoolers too little credit. Rocketry and science competitions are not really any different from robotics and programming. None of them are exactly football team, if you know what I mean. The only real differences between "model rockets nerdy" and "programming nerdy" are a result of how the adults treat the participants.