[StephLee]

Reasons I think it wouldn't work:

~Students will resent many aspects of it, including: being graded, being scheduled without their input, having too little input in the design of the robot, too little control of what really should be their team.
~Too much work for one mentor.
~Too few mentors specified.
~Are they making two robots or one?
~If one: Why two groups? Why can't they work together? Communication between the subgroups would be a problem; one team can't really function in two separate halves that don't interact.
~If two: Two teams in one school would put a major strain on resources.