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One thing we decided to do if we flew (or even traveled) as a team again was to make ID cards or name tags that had emergency numbers on the back. We ran into an issue at Championships in Atlanta where a miss communication between parents and mentors led to a student wandering from the Finale until he found our hotel. He did not know the name of our hotel or anyone's phone number to contact to find out.

Instead of checking luggage or doing carry on luggage we chose to have a parent drive a trailer with all the luggage to Atlanta. This made air travel much easier as we have about 40 people with us. One downfall was a student left their id in the trailer and we had to jump through hoops to get him on the plane to come home.