The school I'm working with got their classroom kits on Friday, the students went nuts going through everything inside and have spent all day today building robots already. That kit is awesome - we are very glad we decided to continue with the Vex events this year. The teacher loves the curriculum and Inventor software from Autodesk. We even have students working on Inventor already with the curriculum, and we didn't think we'd be doing CAD stuff at all this year.
The side of the box with pictures from the Vex World championship is very cool also, those teams must be stokedto be on the packaging. We're excited and can't wait to get to our first tournament.
The press release you mentioned is here
http://www.vexrobotics.com/docs/VEX_...e-08282008.pdf, and here's the picture of the entire kit.
