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Use of cell phones on our team has gotten so bad that at most events we have a jar that all phones have to go in. The exception is each buddy group may have a cell phone so we can reach them.

As for hotel rules, from my experiences as a student as we have never travel with the current team. A Curfew which is enforced by room checks and 'lock-out' tape tags to seal checked rooms and see if someone left. We didn't allow members of the opposite sex in a hotel room unless there was an adult present also.

One thing that we learned from our trip to Atlanta in 2008 is have an id or reference card for each student that includes hotel information and adult contact numbers. We had a student get separated from us, due to a misunderstanding between the mentors and his parents, at the finale and he had to walk back by himself without knowing what hotel we were at or know any phone numbers to each us.