[ngreen]

We unveil at least some sort of functional robot for our school at the pep rally for winter homecoming. This was last Friday for us this year. Usually the Thursday before people stay until we have something presentable. At least for all four years we've been up in the range of 3 to 4 am on that Thursday. But the students at the pep rally always love the robot.

Another one of my favorites was a mentor on our team travels during the week for his job but is able to work weekends. So if he can get a student to stay we will work late. Two years ago we started making our winch to lift the robot at around 8 pm on a Friday night and by 2 am we had it mounted on the robot and working. We then lifted ourselves off the platform with it, turned off the light, and left it hanging so the rest of the team would find it when they came in a 9 am the next morning. We knew our winch would work when we came back and it hadn't moved.