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Originally Posted by czeke
You are very fortunate. Our school's tech ed department, took space away from us. We're currently using a loft above a small workroom for storage and about 20 square feet at the back of the machine shop, along with our shipping crate. We have no space to store previous year's robots, so we dismantle them, after using them for demostrations and recruiting. The tech ed department doesn't promote us, since they have their own bots-iq team. Hence our team amounts to about 10-12 styudents and around 4-8 mentors.
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The Good thing is that your team is still together. My team has also struggled getting support from our school. Last year (our rookie year) we worked on campus, but this year the school decided to start wood shop to make frames for photography class and that left us with no working or storage place. For months we looked for a place and just 2 weeks before kick-off we found it! Today work on the basement of the
Delta Masonic Temple. The place is big, we have a kitchen 2 restrooms and 24\7 access for free. We are still tied up to our school somehow, but we also became a 4H team. We have students from 7 different schools and i think that has helped us a LOT too.
My advice to your team is to stick together and to keep looking for opportunities. NETWORKING is the key. Every person you meet is an opportunity not only for your team, but for that person to become part of something amazing like FIRST. Your school may not be a great support...yet, but there's still tons of people out there that haven't heard the FIRST message yet. Go to your sponsors and to big companies to give demos! We didn't expect it, but this year we got about 6 new mentors just from doing that. The challenges we've faced have made us stronger as a team, and it can be that way for you guys too
Karina Adame
Team Captain
Chairman's Award Lead
"Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been."
- Theodore Von Karman