Richard,
I'm bumping and old thread here wondering if this project continues for your group? 1712 had the privilege of once again working with 365 at Ulster DE last Friday and it was a great success. We've tweaked our game, the rules, and started all teams out with a moving drive base in the VEX Tumbler, allowing the teams to focus on manipulator design. John Larock and the MOE folks always do a great job here and I'm simply thrilled to be able to help.
If this is a continued success in St Louis too, I'm wondering if this is the kind of thing we'd want to share best practices on and see if other Ulster sites could benefit?
Looks the many of the other sites might have a friendly team or two nearby...
http://www.ulsterproject.org/locations.htm