Grand Challenge ad nauseum

Just filed 2,000 words for Flipside on the MoD's Grand Challenge and about to start on 800 words covering a different angle on the same story for the newsletter of the group Scientists for Global Responsibility.
Which makes it four different outlets on this issue and I think I've would then have had enough of robot urban warfare systems.
Just posted up some images from the event which you can see here.
My SGR piece will consider the implications of involving school in these defence projects. One teacher I spoke to at the event said it did make him think twice about taking part.
His daughter wants to be a forensic scientist because of the CSI crime series - if we could see some programmes featuring engineers (like Robot Wars) then maybe more young people will want to take it up as a career.
Instead defence companies are filling the gap that exists in promoting engineering and technology in schools. As this press release from Thales shows.