Can a group of schools form a collective team?
From 2006.igem.org
This seems reasonable, although the spillover into fall becomes more difficult.
We had a few instances last year of teams with one member from another school, and then there was the multi-institutional team from Toronto/Waterloo.
Davidson is forming partnership with Missouri Western State Univeristy. We will use IM and video conferencing to enhance communications. This will be a pilot project for a larger network of small PUI schools.