[DonRotolo]

Danny,
This is a fantastic opportunity. I think that a wider application of DAQ, and especially using LabVIEW to make it friendly, would dramatically enhance FIRST. After all, this is how real engineering is done: design, build, and validate. I fear that few teams actually use DAQ for their validations, and NI's involvement can change that for the better.
Last year, as a rookie team, we barely got the robot together in time for shipping, with no real preparation until the first week of January. This year, we have over 60 students, and lots of pre-season training ongoing and planned, and with a dedicated validation team we plan on really getting into it this year - even if we are limited to the '8 bit DAQ' capabilities of the Robot Controller.

Thanks to NI for getting involved.

Don