Posted by Ken Patton at 04/29/2001 10:47 PM EST
Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.
In Reply to: question for teams created among multiple high schools
Posted by Scott England on 04/29/2001 2:44 AM EST:
We have for the last five years sponsored one school, so I am somewhat off topic for your question. But, our solution would work for a multiple-school team, I think.
Our engineering team (all the engineers, roughly one half of the students) meets at GM Powertrain during the season. Since all of the work on the robot is done there, it makes it easier on everyone to be close to our shop. We have a room that is about 12 ft by 12 ft, plus a playing field in an open area in the building. We do not always have enough room, but we do have *some* room. The students spend a minimum of 14 hours per week there, but that grows as the ship deadline gets closer. There is always engineer supervision.
We have weekly "all-team" meetings at GM Powertrain also - I personally think it puts everyone on good behavior, since we are in a place of business. Not that we behave badly....
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The non-engineering team tends to work at the school, but its pretty common to find a couple of the students working late at one of the engineers' desks at Powertrain - they can stay there later.
Hope this helps,
Ken