As a high school girl, I was accepted to competitive engineering universities, too.

I completed my degree and minor, both in engineering, too.

I went on to complete a masters degree, too.

I work in a challenging and gratifying technical field, too.

My accomplishments are belittled when they feature an addendum that I, too, achieved them, as though I wasn’t expected to do so alongside my male peers.

Your decision to highlight the gender as the defining characteristic of a local robotics team disappointed me. Women achieve great things every day and our gender shouldn’t be reduced to a clever headline. I hope you’ll be more thoughtful in the future.

Corinne Pascale, Bellevue