[Jessica Boucher]

It is a fabulous venue, and it is well equipped for what FIRST will be doing with it.

Also worth mentioning, they are breaking ground this fall for the new Connecticut Center for Science & Exploration, to be opened in late 2007 right across from the Mariott next to the venue.

And no matter how many times my father may say otherwise, the nickname of the venue is Adriaen's Landing (named for Dutch mariner Adriaen Block, who in 1614 became the first European explorer in the Connecticut River valley region), not Adian's Landing. Boy, did I get a ton of confused stares when I called it that!