I volunteered at the US FIRST Robotics competition last weekend. High school teams have 6 weeks to design and build a robot from a given kit of parts, the robots then play a game determined by FIRST; this year was soccer.
It was realyl fun to see these bright-eyed and enthusiastic young scholars. I mean, you know they can’t be the most popular people in school, but they really put together some complicated builds, and I was gratified to see a number of girls competing among the teams, too.
Makes me want to break out the soldering iron again. Not that I have a project in mind.