=The students  learned that they should have started a long time ago doing everything, but they were waiting for the Robotic's Club Coordinator to take the lead for them to act.  In the beginning, deadlines for voting on the theme, the script, everything, were placed far off and meetings were often post-pond.

=Everyone enjoyed getting together, socializing, while working and learning new skills.  We had to learn from each other since there was often no one there with the appropriate skills to give instructions, for the most part.

=The concept was hard for the group to visualize, in the beginning, because most of the students had never seen Doctor Who, which is their theme for the competition.  In the robot '"department"", the aspects they are still struggling with is the retractable arm and how to get the robot's look to integrate with the robot's function.

=The sacrifices some made were many hours spent outside of meeting times (which was already three times a week since November 5th 2019).  Many late nights at school working with a skeleton crew. Also getting access to facilities when there were no teachers to supervise the individual teams.  Individual students had to give up a lot of their free time outside of school as well.  Some students were going to bed between 1-3 am, just to get other "department" tasks started and finished by deadline, because other team members stopped showing up, or abandoned their commitments altogether, which  meant more work for everyone else.

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All that said, it was a labour of love...the love of world domination!  Exterminate!  Exterminate!!!