The SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition
 

For all you alumni out there, SpaceX revealed a cool design competition for teams of college level and up engineers to design pods for the proposed "Hyperloop" transportation system.

Official page can be found here.
I was surprised to do a quick search and see nothing about it. One of my friends at RIT is intent on starting a team, and I've been reading up on the whole project for about an hour now.

Who is thinking about competing?

I know for some of us, the presentation date might be the hardest thing to overcome!
However, the application is real and fascinating and you've got six weeks after kickoff to help build robots too.

Thoughts?

Re: The SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition
 

I was wondering when this would crop up around here. No, I'm not going to be involved.