Our robots are not being built from a kit. There are no pre-selected parts and no TA's to 'check us off' and to make sure we did our work.

I am really excited! As the robots begin to take on their definite designs and we start building, I think lots of people are getting really pumped.

We have access to some of the top professors in the world. The Edgerton Center [at MIT] and [Harvard's] Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences [DEAS] have gone above and beyond to make sure that we have everything that we need.

There's going to be no pre-election giveaways.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.

If the selected envelope doesn't contain my check, the show is absolutely free to the sponsor.