Until the fall of 1997, HTV Magazine was produced in a regular classroom. We had no edit bays, no studio, no room for a regular set of any kind. We found ourselves throwing together sets for each show, and any new equipment we purchased was always a challenge to store. Then we made THE BIG MOVE. On the last day of school in June of 1997, our principal informed us we were being moved to a new location in the building---the old machine shop, in the far northwest corner of our campus. We would have more room, plenty of electricity, and of course, we'd be isolated so we could carry on with our usual shenanigans without being disturbed (or disturbing others). This is the original drawing for the room we had in our mind's eye: The problem was, when we finished designing the room, we realized we needed money and laborers. The labor wasn't too much trouble to find--some fathers and students gave a lot of time. We had the recovery of a blank room ahead of us and no money to speak of. And, we had nearly a ton of old metal shop equipment to move out before we could even start. Grants from the local Musgrave Foundation and from the Gannett Foundation enabled us to purchase materials for the construction of four separate edit bays, the renovation of a storage room into an office, and the wiring of the entire room to facilitate the constant use of lot of electricity. The room took shape over the course of the entire summer, and was ready to open after the final paint was applied the night before school started. Even though many schools have real studios, and much larger set-ups, we at least have the knowledge that we built this facility ourselves, and it has been very functional since its first year. Of course, it's still, and always will be, a work in progress. In fact, in the summer of 1999 we added three more edit bays!