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It seems like a nice idea, but there is a robotics competition at the college level, only it's run by DARPA, not FIRST (the president of DARPA made a speech about the Grand and Urban Challenges during the elimination matches). While it isn't the same idea as the FIRST competitions, it looks like it employs many of the same principles alumni would have learned as team members. I know that one of our team's mentors participates in this, and he still frequently manages to help out the team, so the two events can coincide without a team losing too much mentor time.