Okay, so here goes another post for this thread.
I keep seeing people say "I've been in FIRST four year and am now a mentor. I think you are over ambitious high-schoolers. This can't be done. MIT students can't do it. Not in six weeks anyway." Where are your heads? I mean seriously.
Think! 
You call yourself mentors... Aren't you supposed to inspire? Would those people be and MIT if they weren't ambitious? Would we be here in FIRST if we didn't think that high-schoolers could build robots? I can't say this is true. But I have a feeling that when FIRST was started people like yourself said "That's stupid, high-schoolers can't build robots." And now look! We have teams like 148, 114, 254, 33, and 1114(The list goes on.) who are amazing! I sit back in awe practically drooling at when I see their robot! If I knew that they also had a fully autonomous robot, I would be floored! So please, use your brains and think people. Do we encourage these ambitious students, or do we tell them it can't be done? (Which we all know will just make them want to do it all the more.
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Plus, it's the off-season! I'm going to be starting up my own team, keeping up with school, mastering designing with sheet metal, along with fine-tuning my CAD skills. I see no reason why we shouldn't encourage these students to try their best to do what MIT students take two years to do. I hope they succeed!
Do I expect them to get a almost perfect code by the beginning of next season? YES! Do I expect them to have a fully autonomous robot for next season bot? No, but I would love to see it!
I would personally offer any help that is needed, but I am not a programmer. I'll be over here cheering you on though.
Go for it guys, have fun, learn, fail, stand up, do it all over again, and then when there seems to be no hope. You will succeed.
-Rion
P.S. - FIRST
isn't DARPA.
Feel free to give me some bad rep for this post, I don't care.