[Vu2000]

One of our mentor engineers actually worked at sun microsystems 3 blocks away and they had a machine shop with everything including a CNC, huge punchers, mills, lathes... that was never used, at least everything looked brand new. This was actuallly kinda a consequence, since we had a really good machine shop, we had the habit of fabricating custom parts for everything and we would find out at competition that when those parts break or get stripped you can't just go get one from small parts. Instead we had to run out to USC at So cal in order to fabricate new parts.

After fabricating all the parts, we would bring it back to our mentors classroom, he had one of those rooms between two classrooms where we could store stuff, and then we assembled everything after school.

Oh yeah, the machine shop was equipped with really nice welding machines and we were able to weld aluminum, which was really hard.