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Originally posted by Shelley_delphi chick
I know some teams that come from a number of schools and join together to form a FIRST Robotics Team. My team however is just from our school. We have somewhere around 57 students on the team roster, a FLL team in the JR. High and two more starting up next year. So, exactly how many teams have more then one school making them up, how do they share school space, and does anyone mind the travel factor?!?
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We have something like 14 area high schools working together on our team. Everyone converges at a DuPont site in Wilmington, DE to work. There really isn't enough interest at any one HS to start a team, so we all get together. One of our students is home schooled and he drives 2hrs to the build site. He chose to be on the web team, though, so he can do a lot of work from home. I travel 30min to the build site almost every day and don't mind it. It is really cool when you go to the build site and have to show your badge to get in the gate past the guard shack. Definitely adds the coolness factor over working in a school shop. That, and we can leave all of our big stuff out... like the ramp and robot parts.