Here are a few last minute details about this weekend's trip. First,
I am attaching a list of students and coaches below, along with team
assignments, transportation details, and room assignments. Room
assignments are subject to change, but we will try to keep roommates
together as much as possible. Team assignments have been shuffled a
little to reflect who will not be attending or who hasn't been
showing up to practices..
Please understand there is a chance some of you may move up to A1 or
A2 still depending on how many permission slips do not get submitted
this week. If you have not yet turned in a notarized permission slip,
I feel sorry for you and truly hope you manage to get those express
mailed to us in time to board the bus. It would really be a shame for
you to miss out on going to ARML with no refund due to something as
simple as not following the rules about permission slips. You know who
you are.. :)
As for transportation, those of you who are listed as bus passengers
need to be to the end of Palm Drive at Stanford BEFORE noon on
Thursday to board the bus. We will make an attempt to contact you if
you are not at the bus, but the bus will not wait an excessive amount
of time for you. The bus should arrive to Las Vegas late Thursday
night and will leave around 4:30 Saturday (there will be no late bus
this year, but we'll bring it up again as an option next year
because it's, you know, fun)..
For those of you flying, after ARML I will process $50 refunds to
those of you who followed the rules regarding which flights to book
and when. Please make sure Kendra has your address for the check. I
will send a separate email to you with contact information for all the
people on your flight. There will be at least one parent on each
authorized flight, and you are to meet with this parent before going
through security together at SJC. If you are on an authorized flight,
I will meet you at the airport Thursday night for transportation to
UNLV, and we also have transportation arranged to the Las Vegas
airport for your return flight..
As for what to pack, make sure to bring clothes and whatever personal
care items you would bring for a two-night stay in a hotel. I'd like
to encourage you to participate in a tradition we had back in the 90s
when I was on the Texas team and wear your oldest ARML shirt on
Thursday; for my part, I will be wearing a hideous purple shirt with
an armadillo on it from 1991 FTW. Jeff has me beat chronologically,
but let's see if he still has a shirt from the 80s. :) Please pack
lightly but feel free to bring games to play in the dorms Thursday and
Friday nights. Socially acceptable games at ARML include mafia, mao,
toe (not for real money), and other card games; chess; Frisbee
(ultimate, golf, or other varieties); and
let's-try-to-beat-William-Chen's-record-at-Rubik's-Cube.
Socially unacceptable games include video game systems with a finite
number of controllers, and anything that will cause people to get hurt
and/or heat stroke..
The t-shirt you selected is the not-the-same-as-last-year one, and
these will be distributed at noon on Friday. Your coaches will
instruct you where to assemble for your team meeting on Friday at
noon. Please make sure to bring money for snacks and drinks if you
wish; we may not have sufficient infrastructure to keep a constant
supply of pizza and bottled water available this year, but it is
important to keep hydrated in Las Vegas, and there are plenty of
vending machines available on campus..
Just in case you need some contact phone numbers, here are a few:
Tim Sanders 816-210-3147 Airport Trawler (and Head Coach)
Jeff Soesbe 916-213-7068 Assistant (to the) Head Coach
Moor Xu 541-206-7651 Bus Jockey (and A1 Coach)
Silas Johnson 650-906-0581 Room Guru (and A2 Coach)
Finally, I believe you all have received Silas's document on how to
have fun, be safe, and win at ARML; if not, please email Moor for a
copy. I would also encourage you to go to the following links for some
relevant documents:
Campus Map
http://go.unlv.edu/drupal/assets/maps/pdf/main-building-abbrev.pdf
Mathematical Conventions
http://www.arml.com/arml_registration_2010/ARMLConventions_since_2008.pdf
Part of the Competition Program
http://www.arml.com/arml_registration_2010/outside_2011_UNLV.pdf
Rest of the Program
http://www.arml.com/arml_registration_2010/inside_2011_UNLV.pdf
Have a safe trip to Las Vegas, and I'll see you all in a couple of
days! Apologies if the formatting of the spreadsheet below doesn't
come out well on your computer..
-Tim