[Grim Tuesday]

I feel like Mr. Freivald brings up a valid point. For us, the students and many of the mentors, we would love to work for the rest of the year. However, our teacher adviser gets incredibly fatigued by the end of the season; we had to beg him to come in last Sunday. That said, we're incredibly grateful we have someone who is willing to dedicate so much of their time to us. But at the same time, we are already at the limits of how much he is willing to do. For us, a practice bot is near impossible; we would have nowhere to build it or practice with it. The witholding allowance problematic: We are moving to a local sponsor with two mentors and six students of our 76 person team for this weekend but this is a situation much less than ideal.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that there are situations outside the control of how dedicated the students and mentors are. I wouldn't propose eliminating the witholding or practice bots entirely but I think this is an interesting issue to discuss and would like to present other sides to it.