Championship Winners on CNN Live!

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Preparing for this interview was way more intense then preparing for Einstein!

At 9pm all the robots were packed up in the crate and the timeline was so tight that I sent my entire team to the pits to be ready to uncrate not knowing if we truely needed the robots. ~9:15 the 6 students went up to the studio to get ready while Jesse (177), Adam (67), Jenna (PR rep) sprinted back to the pits and caught up with my team.

We uncrated our robot in about 3 minutes and handed tools over to 67 to uncrate theirs. We pulled out our cart and reassembled it in record time. By then 67 was out and we stack them ontop of our robot and wheeled them to the front of the building where 67's van was waiting for them. We stuffed them into the back seat while my team helped pull out 177. We ran back in with our cart and placed 177 ontop and started pushing the robot to the CNN center (and you thought the Georgia Dome was a long walk...).

All three robots arrived at the entrance right around the same time (~9:45). We initially planned to push our bot and 67 in individually, but quickly realized we could stack them and put 67 ontop of ours. Unfortunately, we were still in low gear, (appearantly we were doing a bit of pushing... ) and switched them up. We made our way in to the CNN center to applause from the teams remaining.

After a quick security check Jesse, Adam, Jenna and myself made our way up stairs and pushed the bots right into the studio. We had just enough time to catch our breathes and CNN went on air.

It was nuts! Well worth it!

O yeah...then we had to do it all in reverse to get the robots back in the crate. We finally left the pits around midnight! What a day!