The Industrial Education Shops consists of two workrooms: the Wood and Machine Shops, which is where you would locate the construction sub-team. The wood shop is mainly used for constructing the playing field used for testing the robot. Next door to the wood shop is the machine shop, where the main construction of the robot takes place. The controllers for the robot are also assembled in the machine shop.
The documentation room is where the discussions and meetings take place within Team 359. If one needs to find Mr. Lee, the documentation room is the first place to look. The room is also home to the documentation sub-team and web page division, which is where the room gets its name. The documentation sub-team writes all of their articles and documents here, while web page works on the Waialua Robotics web site.
The VEX facilities is located in the documentation room where weekly meetings and discussions take place, which is the main room for the entire Waialua Robotic’s program. This room is also where the documentation and web-site sub-team spends most of their time, trying to get their work done for the day. But, this is also where VEX students work on their robot for this year’s upcoming competitions. Most of the space in the room is occupied by the playing field, where students on the team practice and test out the robots that they have built, to fix any complications that they have. Also in the documentation and VEX room, students are able to access any equipment and tools that they need to get their task done.
The stock room, which used to be the main robotics room, was donated to us by a team of students, community volunteers, and personnel from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Detachment Pacific. This is where we store all of the metals and plexi glass.
The robotics construction room is where the playing field is set for testing the robot. This room also holds the milling machine, which is where the wheels for the robot are made. There is also the programming sub-team located in the robotics construction room. They work with the prototype robot and test the robot on our playing field that is set up.
Next to visual media, the graphics and animation divisions have there own room. This is where graphics and animation do all of their work. Animation works constantly on their 3D video for competition, while graphics works on making designs for the Waialua Robotics web site, Team 359’s shirts, and the pit crew booklet. Lastly, we have an additional graphics room where construction support/graphics make banners and stickers for Team 359.
Visual media has their own room, which stores their supplies: video cameras, digital cameras, tapes, and their computers. This is also their workroom where they process their video footage to create videos for this season.
