From Saturday 1/29/2022 to Saturday 2/12/2022, Pack of Parts kicks off the “Pack up your Parts Recycling Initiative”, an effort to reuse, recycle, and redistribute FRC parts in Western WA.
AN ORIGIN STORY
At one of our weekly evening meetings right before Kickoff 2022, as we cleaned our shop space in preparation for Build Season, we uncovered stacks of unused materials and bins full of parts we no longer used in every corner of our shop. We can’t be the only ones, we thought as we sorted through the pre-loved robot parts. What if we could give these parts to teams that need them? What if we asked other teams to do the same?
The Pack up your Parts Recycling Initiative is a pop-up FRC thrift store of sorts, operating out of our team’s shop space at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, WA. We are super excited to kick off this initiative, and hope your team joins us to, in the spirit of Gracious Professionalism, spread some love (and parts) this winter!
SCHEDULE & HOW IT WORKS
Week 1: Donation
Does your team have unused or unneeded parts laying around? Stop by our shop space at 400 228th Ave N.E., Sammamish, WA 98074 (see a map here) on these days:
Saturday 1/29, 10 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday 2/2, 6 PM to 9 PM
Thursday 2/3, 6 PM to 9 PM
Week 2: Pickup
Is your team looking to thrift specific robot parts for prototyping / building? Stop by our shop space at 400 228th Ave N.E., Sammamish, WA 98074 (see a map here) on these days:
Saturday 2/5, 10 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday 2/9, 6 PM to 9 PM
Thursday 2/10, 6 PM to 9 PM
ACCEPTED DONATIONS
We’ll take (mostly) any and all parts you have! Examples of great donations: functional motors & other electronics, wheels, raw materials, tools, etc. Our inventory will go live on the 29th!
If you have questions about a specific part you would like to donate, please reach out at [email protected]!
CAN’T MAKE THE DONATION/PICKUP TIMES/DATES?
Email [email protected] to let us know! We may be able to pick up parts from your team’s location.
RESERVING PARTS
Teams can reserve specific parts they need by putting their team number in the “reserved” column of the inventory spreadsheet starting 2/4!