[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

I was just wondering where do other FIRST teams do their building.

My team (1123) is a home school team that allows any high school student to join. We are very lucky to have a sponsor (who doesn't give us ANY money), but allows use to use his facility (which is a stone warehouse, so it is always very dusty and we have to put almost all our tools, materials, metal, etc on pallets, so the employees can put them up on a high shelf .)

I know that most teams use their school classrooms, and I was wondering, What restriction's does your school have for the use of classrooms, shops,etc. And also do you guys do/handle fundraising? (We have a very, very hard time trying to raise the $6,000)

Thanks

We have a room on campus (we have a small campus) in which we use for building. It's not that big (from guestamations, we get about 25x40) and then a storage closet which is also pretty small ( more guestamations ...10x18). And then we keep old bots on a different schools campus, but thats only for the old robots which we never see anymore so it doesn't really count.

As for fund raising, we had 4k from a workshop we put together for middle schoolers over the summer, and 1k from selling cookies (350 cookies a day to a campus with only 600 students) and the rest was a loan from the school.