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We could be on the same team, but it sounds like you're a bit too big-city metropolitan for us. :D

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we have a little over 500 kids in our high school, but we are a private school.

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7-12 we have about 500. And we're a public school. :D

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we used to use the school until two years ago when on weekends the administration decided we must pay a janitor $60.an hour to unlock the door and sit even when the shop teacher was there.
We began packing up all we needed for the weekend on Friday,going to The Knights of Pythias basement do what we could and bringing it all back Monday.

This year do to other issue with the school we will be building at the Knight,with the ability to come and go as we wish.

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Team 1519 meets in our coaches basement. Imagine two decent sized living rooms and a small, small bedroom to build in! One room was designated as our meeting area with a few computers, white board, and all the FLL stuff which contained no building/materials and was strictly meeting/FLL. The second room was where all the magic happened. It had all of our stuff in boxes everywhere with a little bit of floor space to build robots. The small unfinished room was our shop which had a chop saw, table saw, grinder, drill press, band saw, and all the hand tools. One funny memory was cleaning up in our build room and finding a marble fire place behind the piles of lexan and plywood! :) :p

Team 3467 uses the school's shop with access to our own large closet and CAD classroom since our coach is the teacher.

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My team has been very fortunate to have been able to build our robot in a local machine shop. The shop has been very generous to us!

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The school 2175 is from has about 300 from 6-12 and is a public school. My graduating class was 27 students. These small numbers come from being a charter school however, and not from being in a rural area.

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Haha. I understand. Then I guess you are too rural to be a part of the FIRST Interactive Rural Support Network! ;)

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We are grades 9-12 and in the city.

How many kids do you have on your team?

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25-30 every year.

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816 has always worked out of our Schools Pre-Engineering Classroom, though we've occasionally annexed other classrooms for our use. ;)

Connected to that classroom are two more rooms, one of which is probably about 15'x15' which will be used for prototyping, programming and some other tasks, while the second room which is about 15'x30' houses all of our tools and is where we build the robot.

Depending on the year we'll either setup a partial field in one of the large unused rooms in the school or setup a full field in our "atrium".

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573 has been in the back of an architecture classroom since 2001. About a third of the room is filled with boxes, spare parts, robots, shop tools, and trophies. We have been able to get plenty of work done, but we have always had to take stuff out and put it back for every meeting.

After asking for years(and another issue best left untold), we are finally moving out. Our school has given us a few rooms in the bowels of the school. There are currently walls dividing the space up into four rooms, but we have already contracted somebody to remove them. Despite the location, everything about the room will be great. We will have more space to work and store items. Also, we will not have to put tools and parts away at the end of each meeting. With the extra space, we will also be able to look into acquiring a few more shop tools. Hopefully, the walls will be knocked down and we will be ready to move sometime in the next week.

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For Team 811, we have what we call FIRSTbase in the first floor of an outbuilding of a local hospital. We've been blessed for our 10 years to have this space donated by the hospital (it helped that one of our school's alums was on the hospital board when we were looking for space!), and we usually have access to another building that has enough carpeted space to set up at least part of a field.

FIRSTbase is just under a mile from our school, a private college prep school of about 900 students. Being college prep, the school doesn't have ANY shops (other than maintenance), so we've had to build our tool inventory ourselves. To date we have a small mill, metal lathe, band saw, horizontal band saw, drill press, table saw, chop saw, belt sander, grinder, and bunches of cordless and hand tools. Wiring has a full compliment of electrical tools, and the computing power of the facility is fairly robust.

Our 25-40 team members per year manage quite well, considering that (lacking shop classes) we have to teach everything to new members annually. (No, there are no robotics classes in the school. :( )

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Pssh that's nothing our HS/MS combined has about 250-300. Yeah we're small lol. We currently have 4 kids on the team and about 4-5mentors. Just getting kids is difficult. Gotta love the rural areas :).

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Quit complaining about small school size. Hope Chapel Academy (team 330) has about 200-300 students, K-12. The team typically has 7-10 students.

Build site: the warehouse area of an old grocery store. Tool crib is a freezer, practice field is most of the shop. Works pretty well.