Fascinating.
None of the articles mention how long it will take to fly from Earth to Mars. If you check one of the articles you will see that they talk about a 40 minute communication delay. It takes light 40 minutes to travel from Earth to Mars (although I'm not sure if that's the average, best-case or worst-case). After checking around a bit, it turns out that it took Curiosity 8 months to go from Earth to Mars.
Also: Fuel consumption. The more you send up to space, the more fuel you need. More fuel however means more weight, so you need even more fuel.
Now, if I remember right, they said something about "sending 4 people to Mars to set everything up, so that after 1 year the next few people can show up and help further". There will be 4 people, traveling together for over 1 and a half years.
Overall: It is possible, but is it feasible? Hell no. It would be a case of "We do it because we have the money, don't care about resources and simply do it because we can." There are far too many things that can go wrong. From simple technical problems all the way up to social problems.
And if you want to be part of something great, you can always start studying and try to research some stuff about AIs and so on. I heard that we are not too far away from self-learning AIs and processors powerful enough to simulate humans (which are far more awesome imo, mostly due to ethics).