We give students the opportunity to design and build a hybrid electric vehicle.

It's a win-win. Our students get to do the engineering design work, and they get to work with the professionals on the manufacturing. They both win.

We don't expect the students to come up with the final design. This is more for stimulating discussion and raising awareness about what we want to see in the roundabout and how we're going to get it there.

[Intelligent design advocates were ebullient Tuesday.] It's very significant for the students of Kansas, ... Instead of just the evidence that supports evolution, they're going to see all sides.

There was no way we could design this program from the top down and tell students what to do. We made a deliberate choice to break out of the right-wing model and allow students to define us.

We had to write a proposal to enter the competition.