From Wednesday 1/18/2023 to Saturday 2/11/2023, Pack of Parts kicks off the 2nd Annual “Pack up your Parts Recycling Initiative”, an effort to reuse, recycle, and redistribute FRC parts in WA.
INVENTORY LIST IS NOW LIVE: https://tinyurl.com/recycling23
Contact us once you get to the shop:
DM: @frc1294
email: [email protected]
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 reintroduce this initiative for the second time, and hope your team joins us to, in the spirit of Gracious Professionalism, spread some love (and parts) this winter!
SCHEDULE & HOW IT WORKS
Period 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:
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 from 6 PM – 9 PM
Thursday, January 19th, 2023 from 3 PM – 5 PM
Saturday, January 21st, 2023 from 10 AM – 5 PM
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 from 6 PM – 9 PM
Thursday, January 26th, 2023 from 3 PM – 5 PM
Saturday, January 28th, 2023 from 10 AM – 5 PM
Period 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:
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 from 6 PM – 9 PM
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 from 3 PM – 5 PM
Saturday, February 4th, 2023 from 10 AM – 5 PM
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 from 6 PM – 9 PM
Thursday, February 9th, 2023 from 3 PM – 5 PM
Saturday, February 11th, 2023 from 10 AM – 5 PM
PACK OF PARTS SHOP LOCATION MAP
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 19th!
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 1/31/23!