Here's an opportunity to keep your minds busy in the off season.
Basically CRC [Canadian Robotics Competition i believe] is like a small, local, low budget version of FIRST. I'm a FIRST guy myself but I'm helping out with my new [non-FIRST

] school's team... at least until January when 296 gets me back. Anyway if anyone is interested in exercising their minds a little I'm open to suggestions. It may interest you to note that last year the CRC game was suspiciously close to Rack n' Roll [it involved stacking foam inner tubes on vertical poles]. anyway here is a link to the
2008 rule book for the CRC