[Dan-o]

My team is a conjunction of Albany High School and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute. Since RPI has more appropriate facilities, we build our bot in the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) at RPI. The shop has such amenities (spelling?) as a CNC machine, Waterjet machine, 10 ton crane, forms of rapid prototyping that i am not completely familiar with, and all of the machines you could imagine to fabricate parts for a robot (Except for a metal break!). We also have several other machine shops on campus where so we can break up tedius processes (Such as drilling hundreds of holes through the frame pieces of the bot) onto several machines, given that there is enough man(or woman)power to operate them. Overall, the site is extremely easy to utilize.