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Re: Building Out a Workshop
We have yet to find the ideal workshop. This year is pretty good, though. The Pre Engineering classroom is now in the old Print Shop (progress?), and there are several nice work benches with drop down power cords above, a roll up door, and a little bit of storage space. Unfortunately it's a classroom every day, so we have to put our stuff away when we're done with it. But the lighting is good, the teacher plays music often, there's a table to serve dinner, plenty of computers with CAD software, etc. There is a carpeted hallway where we can play with robots, and just a short hike to a larger play area. We even used the shop air once.
Somehow our team has managed to stay about the same size for ten years, with about ten "core" students, and another dozen or so that hopefully are getting something out of it. Since we don't seem to be able to get more mentors involved, I guess the size of the shop is just fine.
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