What Makes Beach 'Bots Unique?
Well, we're not supposed to say this but, we used to be the ONLY home schooled team. Now we're the only team that has mentored a home schooled team and there are two of us.
Our school's official facilities consist of a single office containing three desks. If more than one person wants to stand up at the same time there's a problem...
Our classrooms are wherever we happen to be. Though we do have places we use regularly.
Because we are a religious school, finding sponsors can be difficult. But as the Esteemed Mr Lavery pointed out in another thread, there are ways to achieve government (read NASA) sponsorship, even for us. We have been sponsored by JPL for longer than any other team. It hasn't been easy, but it can be done, legally even ethically.
This year we built our robot in a power plant that doubles as a movie set. (thank you AES!) If you've seen "The One", you've seen our playground.
If we take our robot across the street we can get beach sand in the drive train. Now you know why it's not allowed across the street by itself. Besides right now it's in a crate and on it's way to San Jose, I hope the driver knows the way.
Sorry, I couldn't resist