California District Proposal, Rev 2

[Chris Fultz]

Originally Posted by frcguy

I'm curious how machine shops work in a district environment. As the only regional I attended this year was SVR, the only machine shop I know of is the NASA trailer kind. I'm assuming that they don't drive a trailer out to every district event, although I may be wrong. Could somebody who has experience post a quick overview? Thanks in advance.

Many of the IN events are in team schools, so the "host team" effectively provides a space. For the Perry Event, we recruited a few former team members to run the machine shop. Our build space is located near the playing field and pit gym, so it was easy access.

This does bring up something that FIRST may need to be sure is clearly defined. We considered our build space to be "off limits" during the event, and any work we needed done we did through the machine shop, like all other teams.