Maine's FLL puts on a trackmeet every year. Basically, they have a whole bunch of mini events, like ping pong shot put, weight moving, fastest robot, line following, things like that. Here's the link
http://www.mainerobotics.org/trackmeet.html (scroll down and there's a powerpoint/PDF describing the challenges).
Also judging by what you've taught them (if you teach them how to program what they've been building), seems to me like you could cumulate the lessons with a mini robot sumo competition.
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Originally Posted by Noah Kleinberg
Another similar one is to build a car which can be dropped from about ankle height and stay in one piece.
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If you do have a drop challenge, raise the height above the ankles, because Lego robots track straighter the better they are held together. By the time I moved on from FLL the rule on our team was if you couldn't drop it from at least two feet, it wasn't sturdy enough for the competition table.
I suppose I should note we took the RCX off of the robot when we dropped it.