I encourage you to keep trying to program in LabVIEW, I know it can be intimidating and frustrating but it's a very good product and it will be great for the students to get exposure to such an important industry tool.
I'm eager to see what default code and vi's we'll get from FIRST but LabVIEW already has so many of the needed solutions to controlling robots. We don't have our Vi's posted but you can see images of how we controlled a kitbot using labVIEW, our cRio, a laptop, joystick, and a wireless router on our website:
http://www.team1817.org/cRio_report.html
Disclaimer: This is just a side project for us to play around with LabVIEW and may be nothing like the new FIRST control system