[Clem1640]

As FRC Team 1640 prepares to head out to St. Louis, our excitement at attending our first Championship and winning our first Regional (Philadelphia) is tempered by concern for the team's future.
As of mid-May, we will be without a home.
Team 1640 was founded in 2005 by a Downingtown High School physics teacher. Unfortunately, he was forced to leave the team in 2008 due to health problems. Recruiting another teacher has proven impossible. Non-teacher mentors and parents, however, have kept the team alive and growing. The team has launched fifteen middle school VEX teams and six elementary school FLL teams. The program now reaches over 150 students.
Without a teacher, the robotics program lost school club status. We incorporated (as Downingtown Area Robotics) in order to obtain our own liability insurance and to manage assets acquired by the team (primarily tools). We now operate and fundraise independently and are well-equipped for the challenges of FRC.
Throughout the seven years of the team's existence, The Downingtown Area School District has graciously supported the robotics program by, among other contributions, providing a space where students could build and test robots.
Unfortunately, the School District has sold the building in which we currently operate and no longer has any space available for the robotics program. We must move out just after Championships.
Team 1640 is seeking space to enable us to continue to bring hands-on, robotics-based S.T.E.M. education to students in the Downingtown, Pennsylvania area.
Any assistance, advice or leads from the FIRST community would be sincerely appreciated.