[xjschwen]

We are luckier than most teams.

Our school district recently (2 years ago) idled the middle school due to declining enrollment. We have full run of 3 class rooms. We have them divided as a metal room with band saws and general chassis build area.

We have a second room referred to as the the wood room... We do most of our wood work and game elements here.

The third room is our software room... It is also the FTC team's main build room.

We also have full run of the library during build season because it has lots of space to setup a half field when needed.

I say our administration fully supports our team with this amount of space to work in. They have even purchased new cad workstations for the team.

However, our team struggles to get more than 10-12 students, which is about 4% of our student population in the grades 9-12. We are currently without faculty member of the school system being on the mentor crew.

We are working hard now to up participation and recruiting new members is a top priority for the team for the first time in a while.