Build Spaces?

[sanddrag]

Does anyone have a good list of what teams/schools/organizations have recently (past 6 years) built a new dedicated facility for their STEM/STEAM/Robotics programs?

So far I have:
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
Hawthorne High School
Katy ISD in Texas

Who am I missing? Looking for more examples here.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Does anyone have a good list of what teams/schools/organizations have recently (past 6 years) built a new dedicated facility for their STEM/STEAM/Robotics programs?

So far I have:
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
Hawthorne High School
Katy ISD in Texas

Who am I missing? Looking for more examples here.

148's school is finishing a new building right now.

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Cory

148's school is finishing a new building right now.

Any links related to this? Photos, news article?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Any links related to this? Photos, news article?

I don't have any, but I imagine if you contacted 148 they could get you some.

[waialua359]

I'm a new fan of both 987 and 148's build space.
I cant wait until 987 shares what they shared with me on their new and improved work area.
We have 7500 sq ft. of dedicated work spaces, however, it also has a lot of automotive remnants still in our shops. It is also so compartmentalized that we cant put a full size field anywhere.
After seeing 987's one in detail, my main mission and push now is to get a 2 1/2 story building, where much of the space is dedicated to STEM/Robotics.
Estimated costs so far is 11 million.

[WinterPoet]

Thank you for all the responses! Our team definitely has a better idea of how to proceed.

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy

RIP 1717. You are missed.

[TheBoulderite]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Does anyone have a good list of what teams/schools/organizations have recently (past 6 years) built a new dedicated facility for their STEM/STEAM/Robotics programs?

So far I have:
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
Hawthorne High School
Katy ISD in Texas

Who am I missing? Looking for more examples here.

Our team's nonprofit, the GEAR Aliiance, renovated a warehouse this last year and now use it as our base for all our STEM programs.

I also know that 4334 bought out an old pet store last year and use that as their base of operations.

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Does anyone have a good list of what teams/schools/organizations have recently (past 6 years) built a new dedicated facility for their STEM/STEAM/Robotics programs?

So far I have:
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
Hawthorne High School
Katy ISD in Texas

Who am I missing? Looking for more examples here.

Peddie School has a new fabrication lab that houses 5895 and if I remember correctly, Dean was there for the opening.

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Does anyone have a good list of what teams/schools/organizations have recently (past 6 years) built a new dedicated facility for their STEM/STEAM/Robotics programs?

So far I have:
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
Hawthorne High School
Katy ISD in Texas

Who am I missing? Looking for more examples here.

2177, The Robettes got a new facility at the school. The building was completed mid-season in 2013, and the team moved in later that summer.

[jgerstein]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Does anyone have a good list of what teams/schools/organizations have recently (past 6 years) built a new dedicated facility for their STEM/STEAM/Robotics programs?

So far I have:
Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy
Hawthorne High School
Katy ISD in Texas

Who am I missing? Looking for more examples here.

Not a full building, but Union County Magnet High School is renovating a particularly large computer lab and conference room into a new makerspace to support STEM/our engineering vocational specialty. It's not specifically for 1257, but the team will be working there as soon as construction finishes.

My favorite part of it is that the students designed it.

[maxnz]

2855 was based out of a science room closet until last year: basically we had to take everything out and clean everything up each night, costing us about an hour per day.

Last year, however, we took over half of one of our coach's classroom for our shop, with a distinctive divider of bookshelves to keep non-robotics students out of the shop during the school day. Our marketing team worked out of the school's small science computer lab and our other coach's classroom.

This coming summer, our school is doing a major renovation and we have been pushing for a dedicated space. We'll see if we get space later this fall.

[Adrienne E.]

I figured I'd chime in here. 148 was fortunate enough to be given space in a new Career and Technology wing that was added to our high school. In May of 2014 our community voted yes on a $79 million bond to upgrade all technology in the district, tear down and rebuild an elementary school, do much needed maintenance work on all campuses and build a CTE wing onto the existing high school. In that wing we were given about 8000 sqft for a competition arena, a build area, a small machine shop, and a classroom. I have some drawings of the building if anyone is interested but the pictures speak much louder than the drawings! Here is an album of how it looks today. We are still under construction a little, and have a lot more to set up but this gives you a good idea of the space.

https://goo.gl/photos/yqpM27rvg43dW4rv7

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

[Jay H 237]

237 has had a 'spare' classroom at the high school since it was renovated 4 years ago. Previously we had mostly worked out of closets and had to clean up and put everything away each night. Most general work was done in the café on the table originally with use of the wood shop and metals rooms for specific tasks. Again, they needed to be cleaned up and put back the way we found them every night too.

We still use the metal and woods rooms but having our own room is the best situation we've been in since the team's founding in 1998. Not having to share a closet and then having things disturbed or worse, disappear, is a luxury!

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Adrienne E.

I figured I'd chime in here. 148 was fortunate enough to be given space in a new Career and Technology wing that was added to our high school. In May of 2014 our community voted yes on a $79 million bond to upgrade all technology in the district, tear down and rebuild an elementary school, do much needed maintenance work on all campuses and build a CTE wing onto the existing high school. In that wing we were given about 8000 sqft for a competition arena, a build area, a small machine shop, and a classroom. I have some drawings of the building if anyone is interested but the pictures speak much louder than the drawings! Here is an album of how it looks today. We are still under construction a little, and have a lot more to set up but this gives you a good idea of the space.

https://goo.gl/photos/yqpM27rvg43dW4rv7

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Hi Adrienne,
I had no idea that you posted here until now. Team 148's setup is very impressive. Best part is it's brand new!

Can you send me drawings of the building if possible? I also would like to use your photos as examples.
987 has already shared theirs with me already.

We plan to meet with our legislators later this month after already submitting a needs assessment/request. We plan to also host several town hall meetings prior to submitting our final plans for a legislative bill early Spring.

Can you share what Team 148's facilities cost was of the total funds?

Glenn

I also wanted to share that one of our middle schools in Hawaii recently got a science and technology center built which was unveiled right before we left for China.
Its a 20,684 sq ft building. They normally host our VEX Middle School State Championships and we look forward to trying to 3-peat in their brand new center!
If we can get the requested 11 million, this is the size I want.
http://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/C...edication.aspx