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Re: Full Field Practice Facilities - How?

The Lee's Summit R7 Alliance (1730, 1986, and 1987) have individual build spaces on the campus of the Lee's Summit High School. These are year-round; each team has their own private space and a 4th room that's common. During build and competition season we're allowed to set up a practice field on the stage in one of the older gyms in the school. This isn't close to full size, but we have enough to have drivers' stations, a pyramid, and driving space.

During the last bit of build season we get to set up a full field on the gym floor. We don't have any electronics for the field; just plywood elements per FIRST drawings. Some things carry over from year to year; others we build each year. We were able to build a complete, steel, pyramid as well.

We invite other teams in the area to use the field before bag & tag; this year I think we had 10 or so teams show up.

Edit: I should add that we were able to get the build spaces funded thanks to a bond issue a few years ago. We had a tiny portion of the total amount ($1M each for 3 football fields' turf replacement, iirc) but it was bigger than zero and we have fantastic spaces with decent tools thanks to the community's vote.
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Last edited by Jaxom : 18-03-2013 at 20:56. Reason: Add how we got the build spaces
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