Re: Bringing Food into Competition Venues
 

*scratches head* I don't doubt you, but you might want to get things straight with FIRST. The site info PDF still has no food on site in the site restrictions.

Re: Bringing Food into Competition Venues
 

I know it says that, but all teams registered for the Chesapeake get my newsletter each year with updated info. As long as teams continue to clean up after themselves, the Regional Committee and the USNA will continue to consider this option.

We are grateful to the US Naval Academy for the use of Halsey Field House along with the Navy staff we work with. Last year we had teams from Alaska to England participate.

Everything isn't peachy. There are many challenges to holding the event on a military installation. Every team fills out bus clearance forms and there are lots of rules about access, showing id's, and there is a shuttle bus that many have to ride. Most teams need to commute to hotels as there are only a couple of expensive hotels within walking distance (and about 50 B & B's)

Annapolis is located under an hour from Washington DC and many teams who travel here visit DC. Some have even made appointments with their elected representatives.

FIRST, like life, is a series of trade-offs. Each regional event is dealing with a variety of challenges, trying to make this work.

Re: Bringing Food into Competition Venues
 

So some solutions...

1.Make it less expensive

2.Provide options for vegans... and well some people have allergies to so many different foods that #3 sounds good.

3.Let people bring food in...many will still buy from the concessions...we're teenagers, we eat a lot...

Or some other reasonable option that the FIRST community can definitely solve. (Hey we build robots:))

Re: Bringing Food into Competition Venues
 

Yes I agree about the vegi thing. But when a team is selling pizza (at it's fund raiser) and another team goes out and buys pizza and soda and brings it into the same cafe the team is selling food I think that is really bad. That's what I heard happen last year. I did not see it but told to me it happen