How does your team find work space?

[SushaK]

461 has its own tech shop which is our teacher's and main mentor's classroom... it's actually 2 rather large rooms, one a shop with all the tools, the other - a classroom with white boards, seating, etc, which is also a computer lab for the classes he teaches... the shop has an exit to the outside where one of his classes built a shed to store old robots and such in... also, we have rented space to use for practice fields in the past, used our local elementary school's gym, and our high school gyms also... you can always ask the other teams in the area for help also. we've provided space for other teams in the past (and still do) and let them use our shop and other facilities for free

[drewDabb]

Thanks for all the replies, information, and support! Sorry I'm late in replying.

The presentation seemed to go very well with a great reaction from our Board of Education. Hopefully we'll be able to get some more support.

Thanks again everyone for all the replies, hearing how teams work things out with mentors, communities, schools, and sponsors is a really great thing to hear. Thanks for sharing!

[Dan Richardson]

On Exploding Bacon the mentors draw straws for who's garage we'll be working in. College mentors who rent homes have to draw 2 straws.

[seannoseworthy]

During the lunacy year. We worked in a computer engineering room it was a pain to put everything away at nite. After some good negotiation on our mentors part, we now have a small room. Its not the largest but its great for programing and storage. we also have a sponsor that teaches machining so we have access to the machines.

[Billfred]

1618 has always built out of the PLTW classroom, itself a converted wood shop. The actual shop space has been greatly reduced from its prior form, but there's plenty of space to spread out while working.

This season, 2815 built out of the student projects room in USC's College of Engineering and Computing machine shop. The room is just down the hall from the actual machine shop and is shared with the other competition teams in the college (Mini Baja, Solar Boat, etc.). After build, we moved everything back into Steven Kowski's lab across the street to make space for the next project in the room.