Tool for one, Tool for all

[KenWittlief]

super idea! Ive been involved with starting new teams here in rochester NY

and one idea a couple of us came up with, its really taking your idea one step farther.

If we could create one location in the city, a FIRST team center.

It could have one playfield, one machine shop, one computer/printer/scanner room

one photography/video room

a lunch room, a place to hold large meetings (like the kickoff satellite presentation)

and individual rooms for teams to meet and work on their own machines and ideas.

This would make it so much easier for new HS's to start teams - half your resources would be there for you already

and by sharing resources like this, it would push teams out of the hacker method of building things.

1. start building your robot
2. firgure out what you want it to do
3. try it and see what it actually does
4. GOTO 1

and instead would force people to spend the first week or so after the kickoff thinking about what they want the robot to do, and then building once. (Thats how engineering is suppose to work and it CAN be done).

Also, small local teams could share bus rides to regionals, the championship, stage expo matches, attend science fairs at grade schools

with multi team cooperation the possibilties are phenominal.