Have you cleaned your team's storage closet lately?

[Billfred]

1293 cleaned out its storage closet in the preseason. Many parts in the room weren't even the team's, just cast-offs from various things (various 486-era computer components, bolts as big as your arm, etc.). We cleared it out nicely.

[santosh]

We cleaned our shed out last week becuase they are bulldozing that area and are building a new science building. They are giving us a special room (SCORE).
In the shed we found a barbcue grill, charcoal, stage lights, drama props.
That is downstairs which is noting, Upstairs we had TONS of wood and PVC.
So now all of this stuff is in our shop. We can no longer see the floor. The floor has been elevated about 2-3 feet by plywood. I wil lpost a pic later. TO get to the lights you need to get a harness and scal these mountains (not really). But it is bad.

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by santosh

We cleaned our shed out last week becuase they are bulldozing that area and are building a new science building. They are giving us a special room (SCORE).

Sweet! I wish WCC would give us a special room, with lots of pre-carpeted space for driving practice.

[Koko Ed]

The last couple of years the X-Cats did a cleanup and reorganization of the site. Found alot of old buttons, a 96 Beatty robotics trucker cap, a Robbie extreme bandanna, lots of old giveaways and noisemakers (I really wish we didn't find those clickers. They are super obnoxious) and even some old banners.

[gondorf]

hmm... we were also recently evicted from our workshop so we had to get out. i finally found all our allen wrenches... we were missing over 6 full sets. also found were 3 rolls of duct tape, 2 sets of drill biits, and a marker board eraser

[Dan Petrovic]

In September 166 had a super closet clean out.

It took 3 days to complete.

Friday night we tore everything out of the closet and brought it out into our work space. Saturday we started sorting through everything, throwing away things we don't need.

Sunday we put it all back. It's a lot cleaner and easier to find stuff.

[Imajie]

What usually happens when we try "to clean and organize" our room(closet) is we take all the stuff out that can come out. We then look at all of it amazed that it somehow manages to fill the hallway outside the room , and then throw it all back in a little bit more organized than last time.

Then finally we do it again in about 2 weeks time.
Hopefully this year it stays more organized than previous years.

[Kyle Love]

We are going to clean the shop over Christmas break, I'm terrified to see what stuff we will find.

[Koko Ed]

We have because we're moving after the season.
You can see all the stuff we found laying around right here.

[Kyle A]

We have to clean out our room at the end of every year, but we never sort anything we just throw it all into a crate and put it aside. This year we decided it was time to go through everything. It is amazing the stuff you find when you clean. I found a ton of stuff that we were looking for during build but could never find. We have also found various parts to different robots that have been taken apart. It is hard to throw stuff away though because you never know if you can use it for something.
But as Andrew says, you can keep parts but once you actually need them you will never find them. So we have basically just been throwing a ton of stuff away.
Our room is looking alot better the 12 crates of junk is now down to about 2 small bins.
The other day though I was in our one storage closet going through boxes and found a box half full of brand new poof balls. Those would have been nice to know about when we were fixing the robot for when we went to the off-season event.

[Charger_07]

we cleaned 1 of our 2 back rooms out and moved all the stuff to a trailer......The trailer was supposed to be used as a class room since our school is being renovated

Define latley.

Last time it was clean was probably over six months ago.

[Allison K]

One of our main storage areas is above the gym, up a long, narrow set of stairs at the end of a long windowless room. This was all well and good until sometime during construction over the summer and either power was cut to the room or all the light bulbs burnt out. The front two-thirds of the room is populated by the old steel weight-lifting equipment (It used to take up the entire space until we re-arranged a little bit) making the journey to the back section somewhat dangerous. It is actually pretty organized though since we usually have to navigate in the pitch blackness. Materials are in piles separated by type, the robots are in one pile, spare parts are loosely sorted by type, etc. On the off chance that we remember flashlights instead of just using cell phones we always run across stuff we forgot we had.

~Allison