Dean Kamen (Segway and more), Woody Flowers (MIT), and others speaking and introducing the FRC challenge for this season.

This is the 20th season of competition. One of the things Dean is promoting this year is building and using a network of FIRST alumni.

Microsoft donated a Kinect for each team. It will be interesting to see how many teams use them and how. UPDATE: they just said that teams can use the Kinect sensor to control the robot in what's normally fully autonomous time. So there's a big incentive for teams to use them.