"The 24" - Off-season Idea

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Originally Posted by Sean Raia

I don't think 24 hours of sleep deprivation is TOO much for most who are involved in FRC (exceptions apply for older mentors).
You want to feel like crap? Stay up for 20 hours straight, get 4 hours of sleep, and then wake up.
If someone is incapable of safely operating a tool/robot, it will show. A team can simply have someone else do it.

In my extensive sleep-deprivation experience as a college student and subsequently an operations engineer with on-call duties, the first thing that goes is your judgement of whether you're able to safely continue. Usually the way you find out that someone is too tired is the near miss or the accident.

Since my #1 goal for the team every season is for every team member to end with the same number of fingers, toes, and eyes they started with, rogue autonomous robots seem to be magnetically attracted to me, and after seven years of on-call I discovered that sleep is no longer optional, I'm out.