In the current issue (July) of Popular Mechanics is a story about FIRST team 2Train Robotics from New York building a VEX kit. I couldn't find the story online but it's on page #38 in the magazine. There's a brief mention of FIRST and that they won the New York city regional with thier robot named 2Spicey.
The story has to do with Popular Mechanics giving the team 6 hours to build a cool machine out of a VEX kit. They built a machine that could pick up a phone and dial 9-1-1.
If I can locate a link I'll post one or if anyone else finds one feel free to do so.
P.S. This is a different story than the one in Popular Science listed in another thread here.