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Team 619 has no problems with space. We meet in a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of Virginia. All of the students (and mentors ;) ) think this is absolutely awesome, and it's a very intriguing building to say the least. Examples:

-There are random holes in the ground throughout the building, which we have covered with plywood. In one of them we have stored about fifteen old CRT monitors.
-The building is full of old, unused electronics such as analog oscilloscopes, robotic arms, data acquisition equipment, an evacuation alarm, and serial network cables. Most of this still works, and some of it we have found useful.
-We use the original reactor pool (there are two) as a storage room, calling it the "magic pool." Some years ago, a student brought in a Geiger counter and found that, while still far below safe levels, radiation levels inside the pool are, in fact, above normal. It is often rumored that standing in the magic pool will lead to "aha!" moments and out-of-box thinking. :D

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Our construction workspace, as far as where we build the robot and keep our tools, this year is the old photography darkroom, which is about 300 sq ft, I'd say, and our engineering teacher's entire classroom, which is about 5 or 6 times the size.

As far as workspace, like for designing, Web browsing, fabrication, woodwork, welding... Well, we're just down the hall from the school's welding shop and wood shop, where we can get about any kind of wood and many convenient pieces of metal.

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i really couldn't say how much room we have because it is all spread out and odly shaped, we have a full shop, 2 classrooms, a computer lab, and a smallish office to work with.

Shop
3 lathes
4 mills
welding stations
sheet metal station
wide variety of saws and wood tools
3 huge tables, where we assemble our robot

Office
4 Cad/Programing Computers where we cad and research stuff.
Laser engraver

The classrooms are used for driver practice and last minute assembly
the computer lab is for halo and the animators

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I am so jealous right now!!

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my team actually gets a good amount of space. lucky for us our head mentor happens to be the AP of the science department, so we get the whole 6th floor to our spirit team (banners, designs, buttons, art, cooking) and management. up until recently (like this year or last year) the mechanical and programing guys used half of the 6th floor with all the shops for there needs, but now we have our own shop on the third floor. its about the size of a large class room and came complete with tables with there own vices. before the school just barely used it for storage, so they gave it to us and now we have an official chop shop. we also pretty much have access to all the shops in my school.

as far as how well the shops are equipped, if its done on an airplane- we have a shop for it, an outdated shop, but a shop none-the-less (we use drill presses from the 1970's)

i guess its a pretty unique situation though. i don't think many schools are equipped like aviation though. sorry if it sounds like i'm bragging (i'm not).