In the late May a friend of mine on the team and I participated in "RI Webnight Techcorp" to demo our robot to a bunch of people in Johnson and Whales in Providence RI. And these people were really interested in FIRST program and wanted to learn more info on it. I showed off the my website, the FIRST website, and other team websites. And they were impressed. I spoke to one of those who head the tech core, and saying that this program is national.
If you are curious here are some picture of out webnight in Rhode Island
http://www.middletownri.com/webnight2001/index.html