[EricH]

Originally Posted by frcguy

I'm curious how machine shops work in a district environment. As the only regional I attended this year was SVR, the only machine shop I know of is the NASA trailer kind. I'm assuming that they don't drive a trailer out to every district event, although I may be wrong. Could somebody who has experience post a quick overview? Thanks in advance.

Depends on the area, even for regionals.

Ventura (and I'd highly recommend trying to keep that venue available for districts) has an on-site shop, with golf-cart transport (it's not quite at the gym end of campus). L.A. and San Diego(?) used the Holy Cows' mobile shop (a trailer). I'm not entirely sure about O.C., but I think the school shop was open there. Can't say when the last time I've seen the NASA shop down here was.

Short version: Local shop if possible, trailer shop if not possible or for other reasons (consistency, etc.). I'd be reasonably certain that something along those lines would be the case for districts as well, with the caveat that if there was a team at the high school they'd probably be expected to either completely shut down their shop or make it the event shop. (Example, if an event was hosted at 1197's school, which there are other factors against, it'd most likely be a hike across campus to the team shop, which would probably be opened for use as the event shop if staff were available.)