[ehochstein]

Sounds like an exciting and fun idea! I wish I had the opportunity to join something like this in High School, I didn't end up learning how to really program until my first internship after my freshman year in college. I was tasked with the project of creating an interactive program that could parse through a txt file of unknown length. From there I had to convert any binary or hex to something readable and make that searchable. Overall it was a fun and exciting learning experience for me (even though it took me all summer) and I'll never forget the feeling of completing a project like that (although it will never beat the satisfaction of winning a FRC competition).