Cool story, thanks! I was fortunate enough to be on one of the early FIRST Robotics teams ('95, Ramp 'n Roll) back in college, it was a wonderful experience and a great way to get young people fired up about science and engineering. Dean's a pretty controversial character, but clearly a gifted inventor with his heart in the right place. Rob
They'll probable hire him, take his input, then go off and use/do something else and tell him they did it for economic reasons.