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Our robot (StART team 506) is built almost entirely by students. I'd say 90-95% of it is student built and about 97% student designed with occasional engineer modification suggestions.

We are a bit low on both space and resources. We build our robot in a physics classroom in our school. We have to completely clear it out each night for the next days classes and then take everything out again after school to build and work more. Our most presice tool is probably our countertop drillpress.

I admit I would love to have some of the tools that the teams with machine shops have access to, or at least a room to leave stuff out in, but it is interesting to see how much we can do with what we have. Last year (our rookie year) we placed 3rd out of 13 rookies and 17 out of 33 overall.

I know someone mentioned they don't want this post turning into a "spirit of first" type thing but I do feel that competition and winning aside, doing the work with little help from engineers is more enjoyable and more interesting than having a marvelous robot that was almost totally built by engineers. As far as i'm concerened the true objective is to have fun any way possible so long as it does not prohibit or decrease the fun of others involved.
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Re: Where do you actually build your robot and who does the building???

We have a GM Powertrain central building right down the street from our school and we go there during FIRST season to build.

And yes, our students design, build, and manufacture the robot. We have the adults do the bulk of the work in the machine shop but we are able to do some of it.
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Re: Where do you actually build your robot and who does the building???

We build our bot in our coach's room. It's a trailer out behind the school, the tech drawing room. And YES, we most deffinatley build our own bot, we're awesome! =)
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Re: Where do you actually build your robot and who does the building???

For FVC, our team (1070) builds it in a small classroom...or each other's houses.. at that point.. with very little parts.. it's pretty easy. and our students build our FVC bot. so i'm proud of us .

For FRC, since we are definitely talking about a lot of BIG machines and bigger parts.. then we work at a lab at CSUN, cuz our high school doesn't have one for us. and our students build the robot, with a little help from our mentors for ideas and tips on if we're doing something wrong. But YES we build our ROBOt!
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Re: Where do you actually build your robot and who does the building???

This year we will be working in a classroom. Kinda a bummer as studnets use it so we will have to clean up after each meeting. Also its a biology lab so its not like theres any machining equitment in it.
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Re: Where do you actually build your robot and who does the building???

Last year we built our robot in a team member's garage . This year we've been in touch with the district in hopes of getting our own workshop and we'll know the verdict sometime this week.

As for who builds the robot - its a combined effort. We have the students and the mentors working together.
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Re: Where do you actually build your robot and who does the building???

It was interesting going back through this thread and seeing some people I hadn't heard from in a long time...

Anyways, here with the Rat Pack, we build our robot out of the high school metal shop. The school shop teacher and our group of college mentors lead the build process, but the high school students do most of the work. We don't have much engineering assistance at the moment, so we basically do the whole thing ourselves. We can't do as many fancy things, but it's great experience for the kids.
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Re: Where do you actually build your robot and who does the building???

holy rusted thread revival batman

umm 1923 more or less built a good portion of their robot in team 25's lab, because the school is umm weird, but we think we have fixed that
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