Wesley Chapel High School is offering a new automotive class with a twist: It's girls-only.
The students in the class call themselves the Lady Wildcat Pit Crew.
"It's helped me a lot with my confidence, knowing I can do whatever I put my mind to, along with all the other girls in the class," student Bridget Robinson said.
The girls are learning the essentials, like how to change a tire and change oil.
At first, very few girls were in automotive class at Wesley Chapel High, but teacher Jeff Corliss changed that.
"My whole reason for starting this class is, I have a little daughter, 16 months old," he said. "I developed the idea for this class, thinking, what would I want my daughter to know if I wasn’t there? I’m teaching these girls what I would want my own daughter to know."
And for some of the students in the Lady Wildcat Pit Crew, this class isn't only high school credit. For Gianna Mojica, it's a new career path.
"I'm looking in North Carolina at NASCAR, because I really like NASCAR," she said.
Before this class, Mojica says she was always "obsessed" with cars, but never thought women went into the industry dominated by men.
Now, she has a different goal.
"I don’t want to prove myself; I just want to be among all the guys," Mojica said. "There shouldn't be double standards. I feel if a woman can do it so can a man."
It's a lesson these ladies can't learn from a book.
The Pit Crew, along with the other automotive classes at Wesley Chapel High, work on staff, students', and teachers' cars for free.
Because of this class, Corliss believes his higher level automotive classes will have nearly 50 percent women next year, as opposed to only 5 percent this year.
Corliss also says he hopes his class leads more women into the automotive industry.