Our school just discovered a previously unknown room in our new gym, and has lent it to our robotics club for the rest of the year! Even better, it has not one, but two seperate showers in it (although we will probably use them as closets)! Now we have a place to call our own.
Congrats!
There are many teams who are not as blessed with benevolent high schools. Be sure to keep the connection good, and youâll do fine.
Our team is really lucky. We arenât from a single high school, per say, but the New Horizons Regional Education Center. All the students go to their regular high school (from around 12 in the local area) for half the day, and New Horizons for the other half. Most of our team (including me) is from the Governorâs school part of New Horizons, but it also has welding classes, carpentry, machining, etc. etc. etc. Basically we have our own room for consrtuction but full wood shops, welding shops, and machine shops in the same building! I absolutely love it.
~Tom Faircihld~, who when all else failes goes to the NASA Langley Advanced Machining Labratory.
I spent 2 years on 122 in high school with new horizons, definitely one of the best experiences of my life, theyâve really got their act together, and i think they have what i suspect nearly all the rest of us teams want, almost the total support of the school (at least they did when i was there)
Iâve been on team 401 here at Virginia Tech for 3 years now, and its been a long process, but weâre slowly gaining support of the school system. Our first year we werenât even allowed to use our high schoolâs name, second year they recognized us more, gave us some support, and initially the closet off of a bathroom from a woodshop to keep our stuff in. This year weâve finally got multiple teachers, and a fairly nice shop to work out of, and weâre at least 2 weeks ahead of where weâve been in the construction process in the last 2 years.
âmoral of this story boys and girls, stay persistent, and try to make contacts in the schools and community, schools will eventually have to listen to youâ
~Scott
Last year we were also lucky. Our teacher is the head of the math department so she just gave us a room. We also get full control of the autoshop from now on. Our principal kicked out all of the lazy auto shop students because all they did was sit around, watch day time tv, and smoke pot. Its pretty funny, that all they have to show for this year is a desk welded to a car.
We have a pretty good HQ for ourselves. We work in a mall. We got a pizzaria on one side and a movie place on the other And best of all Sears is right around the corner:D . I love the BBAT Cave!
Blinky Bill
ComBBAT Team 21
Normally, we work in our schoolâs autoshop, since our teacher is the autoshop instructor. It has a whole bunch of machines and tools that he inherited from the metal shop when it was eliminated. Unfortunately, our school is being renovated, so we are in a new school with no shop, and we have to work in a middle-school wood shop. Itâs not the best, but its better than nothing, and we are making do.
I should be able to get a 360 degree picture of our robot room up sometime soon. Check back at this thread to take a look! The actual robot room is pretty small (a car bay behind a welding shop) but we use the welding shop, machine shop, and carpentry shop so spread out isnât a problem.
~Tom Fairchild~, who loves New Horizons, where heâs doing all this!
We have it pretty good. The lead teacher is the shop teacher and we get to use the machine shop after school. Only drawback is the machines. Can you say WWII?
We have one machine that can mill straight holes,but has a problem with flat milling and one that mills pretty good flats but doesnât drill straight.
Oh well.
Wayne Doenges
My team did not have a home until some member of the local community asked the people at AES Redondo Beach (the local power plant) if they had a place for us. They gave us a 400 square food workshop and a 500 square foot break room all to ourselves. We were truely blessed by their actions. Last year we had to build our robot in a small workshop about 25 minutes away from our school in a kinda bad area. (the kinda area you did not really want to do those all nighters in) We had 12 students that year and it was corwded. This year we have 23 so it was great that the city and AES gave us a home that was larger than our old one.
mmm 400 square foodâŚ
Our team, after much searching and begging, secured a floor of the Catholic Charaties Building which gives us about 2,000 - 3,000 sqare feet of space. Thus each sub-team gets their own room to work in, making us very happy. Also, we have some area in St. Joesphâs Church for construction of our robot.
As nice as this is, it unfortunately is for this year only because it will be put to some other permanat use in April.
Our team has people from 4 different schools, but we work at the one I go to, Appleton East, because it has the best metal shop and we use the tech center for the main headquarters - its got all the computer and tables and a bunch of tools⌠but then there is a wood shop, metal shop and autoshop to use within just a few feet of our tech center. Its pretty nice. We also have the âback roomâ which is a room off the end of our tech center, itâs got robot parts and scrap pieces and it is where we keep our rule binders, and prototypes and that is what our control team calls home 99% of the time.
we work after school in the hallway in front of the computer department office !!!
Call that fun
our HQ is our âtech centerâ computers, tv, lots of space and we also get to use the schoolâs shop! we can do almost anything welding, milling and lathe work. for the really hard parts we use some machines at the âtechâ or Fox Valley Technical College.
We have moved our HQ from the hallway near the Computer department to the Auto shop. Lots of space. Nice Teachers, always jolly !!
Its fun. We got access to machinery and tools.
Hope u have fun too
Well we have a 10â by 10â area to store everything. But we do have acces to a working machine shop from about 4:00pm to when ever we want to leave. Space? or Machines? which is better?
You guys are really lucky! Last year we found an old agricultural closet and cleaned all the pig pens and rabbit cages and feed out of it to use. I think it measures about 13x17â. We were pretty happy about that until the school decided to let another group store some of their stuff in there too!
Thus, we are resigned to working in a very small space and then moving all our stuff over to the dance team room every night in order to build.!
Hope everyone is ready to get some sleep soon!
M
Our HG is our old machine shop with 2 connected classrooms. We got a butload of room and we got a webcam up somewhere at http://www.gunnrobotics.org .
Huge old grocery store + no electricity + no heat = wonderful
and the meat lockers are such nice storage, we just got a generator and a heater that i swear is an old jet engine, maybe we should try some wings on itâŚ
we could have almost 4 full sized fields in the space we have, only draw back is both of the big machine shops we use are way way on the other side of town, guess you gotta take what you can get.
asher