[New Lightning]

I understand your frustration, I was on a team in high school where we had a fantastic group of mentors who, on the weekends, were willing to stay with us as long as we were being productive. On school nights we closed the shop before 11 usually so we had to go home and sleep or do homework.

The team that I now mentor, as a college student has a very different schedule. Our kids don't get out of school until roughly 4:15. Secondly we have kids coming together from 3 different high schools. So we have very limited time to work during the week because we have to bring the kids in right after school and then send them home earlier than we would want to so they can go homework and get some actual sleep. On the weekends however it is a very different story, we obviously have more free time but, we have very few mentors for our team. We have 4 adults that are there most nights and 3 college students, myself included who are there. With few people its hard for us to put in the long number of hours on the weekends to try and make up for the lost time.

Just in the past 5 days, not counting today I spent nearly every minute that I wasn't in class or sleeping at the shop, and I was burnt out after last night. So while I may want to stay later on the weekends and do more work I know that I just can't handle doing that all the time.

My suggestion is that you really find out what is holding them back from spending more time at the shop and see what you can do to change the situation.