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Re: [NE FIRST] Connecticut Shoreline District (Groton)

FOOD!
We will have the food-thing finalized this week.

Teams will be permitted to bring a cooler into the school cafeteria, but just 1 cooler per team (and I promised the Superintendent that we will do a quick check of the coolers to verify that they contain food, and not....I dunno..."not food"). Each team will be assigned a 12-seater cafeteria table, but this is not intended for total exclusive use by each team: share please, and be shared with!

We will have a menu to send to all team main and alt contacts with discounted pre-purchase meal-tickets. Info will also be posted here. You will have 3 weeks to decide and get your pre-purchases in, coz there's not much time left (o jeez).

HOTELS:
There are 3 hotels set up through FIRST Housing, but many more hotels in the area with competitive rates. The trick is to search for "Mystic Hotels," not "Groton Hotels." We have everything from the Marriott and Hilton down to the Super 8. Two main clusters of hotel/motels are 5 miles from the school in either direction (Exits 86 and 90). The Mystic Marriott is all by itself at exit 88 and is the closest to the school (1.7 miles). The Marriott is one of the hotels that is available through FIRST housing, and compared to the rates at Boston, it's a steal!