Re: Where does your team work?
 

We have a sponsorship much like 1123. We have one sponsor that offers us a TON of time and a place to work out of. He owns the Tile and Marble Shop downtown (just a few blocks from the school) and we generally spend all our time building there. We also have a machinist that offers us time and free labor, and we spend time working in his shop too. We did just this year get our own room in the school, but we don't quite have the tools to be self-sustaining there yet. We built the field at the shop, but stored it at the school. Our old bots are in the school as well. General meetings are held in our school classroom, but typically end up at the shop around 4pm.

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1251 works mostly out of our highschool and sometimes at our sponsers warehouse sonnys enterprises, they build carwashes :) so they have alot of spare aluminum for us and can weld machine etc. At our school we also have a full machine shop with a few CAD machines and a full welding shop we took full advantage of the welding instructor this year lol. He has been welding for us about a week straight everyday after school.

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Our work is typically split between two rooms: metal shop and wood shop. The metal shop is the back half of a physics room and no bigger than a small classroom. The wood shop is much larger, but we use it more as a testing ground than a build area. Everyone is crammed into the metal shop right now.

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Our school created and gave us a room/shop for us to work in. We keep all of our tools and build down there but use the Project Room (basically a computer lab) for planning and strategy. We painted our shop and its a very spirited room now :)

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Our team meets in an abandoned refrigerator carton on the center divider of Highway 202 near the Gray Barn Garden Store. It's kind of noisy, but the nursery gives all the compost we can eat!

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We live in a depressing dying city. Too many businesses have left town, including our sponsor, Carrier, who recently packed up and left. :(

We use the tech ed rooms in our school to build.

Today is a bad day anyway, we lost power at school this morning because of the weather. The fuel cell did not work, so we were stuck in the dark cold. Then, the fire alarm went off because there was a fire near the gyms. Everyone was evacuated and sent home. I hope we'll be able to work on the robot tonight.

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An entire section of our school building is blocked off and given to our team for purposes. From storing aluminum to machinery and even having a practice room--we use the section for building our robot, video taping, to even creating buttons or writing news papers. Personally, it looks like a mini-library for FIRST students.

Fundraisers are always hard and difficult to manage. Usually, it just takes a lot of commitment and time for fundraisers to go through successfully. Moreover, dedication is a huge key. Our coaches continually push the students toward reaching a certain goal in when raising funs for the team-- and somehow, things just pull through. :]

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we work in our school's basement, which convewniently has a computer lab! Everyone on the team had to pay money to join, and the NASA grant really helped with funds

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Same with us.

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1293 works in the engineering classroom at Irmo High School. Some tools, some storage, and enough space to store Ockham, Chomp, Circumstance (get it? Chomp and Circumstance?), and all of our tools and KOP bins and what not. Bob's frame hangs from the ceiling support, so he's not much of a bother.

Now, next year once we have to wedge another robot in that storage room, we'll have a challenge that not even Dave Lavery could think up. ;)

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Our team works out of our CAD Lab, which sports 20 odd machines all capable of running Inventor 10 and 3ds. During the later part of the season, a small number of qualified pro and student machinists work in our high school machine shop. Only students who have taken the course can machine, so those who can spend plenty of time here. Our facilities worked out well this year, but in past years we have often had a third room where the machine was being assembled. Not this year. It has changed every single year that I have been here.

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1023 works out of Bedford High School. We work in the Auto and Machine shop. We also use a couple computer rooms, a class room, and sometimes the gym or cafeteria. For the last 3 years and this year, team 279, tech fusion's sponsor (Dana) builds them a field and they, graciously, let us practice there sometimes. Thanks 279!

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The teacher of team 1345 just told me that we built our robot at the international space station and they had to schedule a special shuttle flight just to get the robot back in order to ship on time.


BTW... the "international space station" is located at 1800 SW 5th Place, Astrological coordinates Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33312. :)

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No problem. We always enjoy having you guys over especially so we can see each other’s robots. Hope to see you guys this weekend, we have a section built and all that we need to do is install the green light.

But as Courtney said, 279 is sponsored by Dana and we work out of their Technical Resource Park (R&D) so there is quite a bit of room there. This year we have our own lab to work out of, but we don’t have a large area for the field anymore so we had to only make a quarter of the field. They graciously donate time on there CNC machine, Rapid prototyping machine, lathes, mills, and drill press. We are a very fortunate team. But again because of budget cuts and time restraints we had to find other places to help us machine parts. Owens Community college decided they would give us a hand in parts when we needed them, they cut a few plates for us as well as some top secret stuff. I am glad that we have the resources we do and I appreciate all of the people that have helped us find space or helped us machine.

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I heard that we will try to get out there and practice this weekend! I'll most likely just go Saturday. But it is always fun to see you guys and see what you're up to!