I watched the announcement live on the VEX World Championship webcast and I was thoroughly impressed.
Missing from the above release is that Project Lead the Way (PLTW) will be launching a K-5 curriculum with the system in the Fall 2014. I think the feeder system for all existing FRC teams (and the potential future teams) is going to get much more robust in the near future.
The feeder programs are going to continue to grow at an even faster pace now...all the FRC teams out there need to figure out how to make room for all the excited (and probably well trained) students that will be coming up in the future.
This is great news for growing STEM education!
