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HOT has our "banquet" every year, but mostly it's a review of the year and prep for next year. We have dinner, with a slideshow of photos running from the build and competition season, and watch video and talk about the bot, mostly for parents who may not have seen a competition.

As far as awards go, the banquet is where we award varsity letters to the students. We recognize them individually by grade and they walk down the line of mentors to be congratulated on a great season. Each of the seniors normally gets specially made plaques by one of our mentors, with their name on it and the HOT logo somewhere.

The rest of the awards fall on the students. They always do a "Mentor of the Year," which normally (but not always) is our Woodie Flowers nominee. In some years, the students have created a set of Mock Awards for each other. These range from "Most Improved" to goofy stuff like "Most Likely to Deflate a Trackball During Human Practice" (I don't know, just trying to come up with an idea, based on past "awards")