Seems like a bit of a beat-up to me. The page that they link to hardly seems aimed at kids, and the only bit there about the MENTOR program (that acronym helpfu

Seems like a bit of a beat-up to me. The page that they link to hardly seems aimed at kids, and the only bit there about the MENTOR program (that acronym helpfully left out of the article) says this: The Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) portion of the FANG program focuses on engaging high school-age students in a series of collaborative design and distributed manufacturing experiments. DARPA envisions deploying up to a thousand computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) additive manufacturing machines—more commonly known as "3D printers"—to high schools nationwide. The goal is to encourage students across clusters of schools to collaborate via social networking media to jointly design and build systems of moderate complexity, such as mobile robots, go carts, etc., in response to prize challenges. For balance, here's MAKE magazine's take on it: http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2962 http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/2962