Each group of kids use their own creative initiative to figure out how to engineer and design the robot to fulfill the requirements of the challenge.

The whole thing is helping these kids that may want to go into engineering understand what it is to deal with a problem-solving situation.

These kids have put probably 50 to 100 hours in the past three weeks in that machine. Last night, several of them pulled an all-nighter. We ordered pizza.

They kids came together, so we put the team together, we got on the Internet, we got the money, we registered and we bought the equipment.

Our mission is to help these kids develop the communications skills, the interpersonal skills and the problem-solving skills to work in a global environment.

We were going to exclude kids from the state and public forum debate if we stayed with intelligent design. Some schools were afraid parents wouldn't allow their kids to do this one.