Hey where did everybody build their robot this year? Like, did u do it at school, at a space with your sponsor…etc?
At a local 20 minute drive in rush hour traffic local high school. Who knows next year.
The High School.
We built and practiced with it at our sponsor (10-15 minutes away)Ethicon
Brian
We built and practiced with it at our sponsor (10 minutes away)Cordis
lol brian
We built TOBOR V at Appleton East, one of the four high schools involved in the program (the school with the most students involved and the machine shop!!) The engineers from 2 of our sponsors (Plexus and Kimberly Clark) drove to the high school every day… which is a good 15-20 minute drive!! Students also machined some parts at FVTC (Fox Valley Technical College, another sponsor) so I guess you could say the robot was partially built there too! 
- Katie
In the sponsor’s shop at his home.
We built IN the chemistry room…talk about little to no room…
We built ours at the high school machine shop. We had plenty of room.
We practice at an old Target department store. We got a free lease donated It’s located about 100 yds away from the school. In fact, the back of the store is against the school parking lot. Also there was carpeting on the floor already.
For other teams that don’t have a good place to practice, this is worth looking into.
Wayne Doenges
We used our company sponsor (AFL) to build the robot, and for the engineers to test-drive it. It was funny. Seeing our robot run around in cubicals, LOL, but the main testing, ball getting and goal grabbing, where done in our school’s old Auto shop. We had TONS of room!
Our team was VERY LUCKY to get a new space from our sponsor. We moved out of our old area on site and into an area that is a little more sectioned off than the old area. It is about 30-45 minutes away from most of the student’s schools, but we come from 8 highschools, and we have one homeschooler.
The seperated ares are good so we can keep the refridgerator away from the electrical work area. And keep the computer crew away from everyone else; no one likes them anyways.
(hee hee J/K you guys 
We luv you anyways.)
HEY! :eek:
With out the computer people, the robot wouldn’t move!!!
we build ours at BAE SYSTEMS facility. we have our own wing of the buliding for us and 166 merrimack. loads of room!
Mech room(151 & 166), Electrical(151 & 166), Animation Room, Drafting room, n a main/common area.
greg
(badjokeguy)
WE build Rhode Warrior 5 in a US Navy base, were security royaly sucked, but we had a lot of realy cool things to play with… But thats clasified info …Later
D@VE
C.H.A.O.S. uses its sponsor Osram Sylvania for their building/practicing area. It’s really nice, and the boys at Osram are the best!
We build ours in an empty part of a warehouse at our local power company Cinergy/PSI…
They are gracious enough to donate us a huge amount of space for our playing field, our tools/machines, and many other things. They also do this in return for nothing, which i believe is really nice of them to do.
We build our robot at NASA Ames Research Center. We have a couple rooms. We have a mini-machine shop, an office and two other rooms. We’re sponsored by a machine shop, so thats were we do our real machining. It’s located about ten minutes away from school.
we got stuck in the aerospace and flight room, because it’s the tech advisor’s room. it’s apretty big classroom, along with a small off room for computers, which i might add were extrememly slow, and for a majority of the build period, disconnected from the school network. because of that, we had to “hack” in (safe mode), and change the network settings, so we could program! we had enough room, but we didn’t have any more tools beyond like, a jigsaw (one of the students), a bajillion year old drill press, a circular saw, and all the regular hand tools. if anyone wants to donate tools to us, feel free.
We have a store front in the Mall (I use the term loosely). We are located between the only movie theater in town and a pizza parlor. Sears is stones throw away. We have displayed dead robots and trophys in the front. The walkers give us a few odd looks when we are in the robot building season…
Not much for machine tools but we are on display to the community. Tools, Pizza and Movies are within a short walk.
We built ours at one of our sponsors (New Era Technologies). We had tons of room. Lots of machines to play with.