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Re: Build Season in the Classroom

Connected woodshop (S-2) and drafting classrooms (S-1) that we claim for our own on weekends and after school and a shelf of computers in S-1 that we only use for the monitors (we swap out mouse, keyboard and box every build session). Connected to S-1 is the place with all of our stuff, The Infamous Closet. The Closet is packed full of tools, general supplies and materials, chaotic organization, a rather temperamental MIG welder, ancient woodshop tools and leaks with Stack Attack bins under them.

As for tools, we have a happy chop saw, a serene table saw, an irritable drill press, an inanimate wood press, a musical band saw (all of which are for wood- we cut aluminum ) and most fun of all, a spark saw (ceramic blade) for steel in the woodshop. In the drafting room we have a drill press and a band saw whose blade needs replacing. And of course, various hand power tools. Luckily we have recently added The TechShop as one of our sponsors and were able to have things milled and almost entirely welded (we were able to MIG weld a little bit at home S-1).

On the second to last night before Ship Date, we managed to get permission and supervision to sleep over in the woodshop. The build sessions were scheduled for 9am to 9pm or later anyway. It was oddly fun to sleep under the shelter of a table saw, and a little alarming to find that no one felt the least bit strange sleeping at school.
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