[Jeff Waegelin]

Back when I was in high school, my team (201) would always fly to Nationals (yes, it was called that then!) in Florida, and we would take our tools with us on the plane as checked baggage. We put as much as we could into the shipping crate with the robot, and then took everything else in a pair of KOP totes, which were each checked as a bag by one of our adult mentors. We were a bit limited as to what we could bring - it was basically one small toolbox worth of essential stuff. We figured that we would bring anything we knew we needed to have, and then if we needed a tool we hadn't thought of, we could borrow it from another team. It worked pretty well, since we never had any major work to do on the robot by that point in the season, but I can see why it could be a problem if you had a lot of things to do. Plus we always got comments on how neat and tidy our pit area was, because we didn't have that much stuff!