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Re: Build Space
I've been meaning to post in this thread for a while, but for some reason never got around to it.
1071 first off has our build space at our school. First off we have our own shop. Originally when our school had a metal shop program, our team operated out of a closet in the wood shop. When the metal shop program got discontinued, they were about to take away the shop and renovate it into something else. We the team however had told them we still needed the machine, so the school gave us half of the existing metal shop (its a big room) along with all the tools and supplies, and machines left over from the shop. (The other half of the room is now the nurses/medical classes room).
In addition to building out of the metal shop, we also still use our schools wood shop. Since we retained our closet in it, we get a lot of use out of it. Since it is bigger and we have more space, the final robot assembly normally takes place here, as well as any wood working that needs to take place. It really becomes an extension of our shop, espically on weekends and vacations when we don't need to pack up.
The best thing about our team, is that in addition our room, and the wood shop, we are the only group at WHS that has a complete run of the Building. Thats right, if there is a room in the high school that we need to use, we can use it. This really is what makes the team happen.
Rooms we often use are:
- Auditorium (has a large open space in the back about half an FRC field) for running the robot/programming
- Graphics Lab - Photoshop/video work that needs to be done
- CAD Lab - some CAD work done, but mostly used just as a computer lab/office for chairmans team, business team, and for the all the paperwork with WIWI
-Misc Classrooms - In addition to our head mentors classroom, we use other area classrooms to conduct meetings and training sessions, as well as weekend lunches.
And as I said before, If it's a room our high-school has, we can probably more then likely use it.
I must say we are one lucky team!!
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