[Ben Piecuch]

Thanks for all the comments on our saga last night! Shipping is always the last thing to worry about, but this obviously points out the fact that more teams need NEMO volunteers. The engineers / fabricators / programmers / students are all far too tired and stressed to handle the simple task of scheduling a package pickup.

However, this whole shipping thing still baffles my mind. As a CT team going to the CT regional, our robot gets transported to the airport, flown to Tennessee, unloaded / reloaded, flown back to CT, and delivered to drayage 30 minutes down the road from it's original pickup point. All this in 3 days, for (typically) a few hundred dollars (donated by FedEx...) Wow!

By the way, after kickoff I was questioning how a midnight deadline really helped any teams. I guess I now know my answer.

BEN