My team 865 (Western Technical School) is looking to expand our community outreach for next year and try to help out our local teams. As we have considerably more tools than most teams we are thinking of hosting a "Come use our tools day" during build season where any team (especially rookies!) can come and use our shops. As we have to plan in advance to get the permits necessary I thought I would post this here while the forum is active to see what the reception is.
Our equipment
- Full 480 V 3 Phase metal shop
-XLO mills
-A bunch of lathes
-Lots of other stuff - CNC PlasmaCam with Miller cutter
- Bridgeport CNC mill
- CNC lathe
- Denford CNC mill
- Denford CNC lathe
- DIY CNC mill
- CNC wood router
- Welding shop
- Wood shop
- Large sheet metal tools
- Computers with licensed copies of solidworks 2013 and CAM software
- 2 Motoman robotic arms that swordfight
- Lots of helpful team members
We are looking for input on when in build season should we have it on and on what day of the week.
The "line" is the point at which we've raised the floor so high that the advanced teams are hitting the ceiling. The ceiling is pretty darned high (and the GDC keeps raising it), so I don't think we're in danger of that any time soon. - EricVanWyk [more] 
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