Seeing as how we're all pretty much involved in FIRST's robotics competition, I'd be really surprised if any students (not to say that mentors wouldn't be involved) were involved in any DARPA Challenge team. But, it'll be held in 2004, so I can't really say anything about participation. It'd be extremely cool if a FIRST organized team would participate, in my humble opinion.
I read an article in a newspaper, a week ago, or so, about the whole thing, and to be honest, it looks awesome.
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From The DARPA Challenge, Los Angeles to Las Vegas, website
DARPA intends to conduct a challenge of autonomous ground vehicles between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in March of 2004. A cash award of $1 million will be granted to the team that fields the first vehicle to complete the designated route within a specified time limit. The purpose of the challenge is to leverage American ingenuity to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies that can be applied to military requirements.
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There're already many teams (just google for "darpa challenge") from colleges and research organizations to companies and corperations like Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and Motorola.
More info:
Google
https://dtsn.darpa.mil/grandc/forum/default.asp