[BB] Late Breaking News

[DeAnnaC]

Things I highly recommend checking out while here: The City Musuem, The Arch (of course), any of the handful of venues in Forest Park (Science Center, Art Museum, etc) and the Botanical Gardens. All of this is within City Limits - not sure if it's all reachable by public transit though. And be warned - it could be 80 degrees, or snowing. St. Louis weather is not predictable.

Things could be crazy in Downtown St. Louis in April:
The Cardinals will be playing baseball, the Blues could still be playing hockey, depending on their schedule and if they make it to playoffs.

Any questions, please feel free to PM me. I've always lived in the St. Louis area.

DeAnna

[Collin Fultz]

Originally Posted by MissDaisyGirl

Exciting news! Should be a nice change of pace.

Anyone know of some interesting attractions/destinations/eateries that St. Louis is famous for (obviously the arch)? I'm already planning my trip.

You can tour the Budweiser factory (probably not HS friendly, but cool for adults). Also, the Cardinals and Blues should be playing. You'll have to wait for schedules to be released to know if they'll have home games that weekend or not.

The Science Center is cool. The Zoo is nice, but it might be a little chilly. Grant's Farm is also an option.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Canada, yes.

America, probably not. Most American college students exams fall between the new St. Louis dates and the couple weeks after that. This is going to make it much tougher for American college students to make it to Championship.

Actually, a lot of public California schools are not on that "American schedule". All three of those dates are on the 4th to 5th week of classes.

[DonRotolo]

Well, at least nobody can argue that FIRST is trying to hide anything. I am sure it is just a coincidence, but this thread talks about better transparency, and here is a perfect example of the efforts they are taking to do just that.

St Louis has always been a place I wanted to visit. And you can take a train there!*

Don


*(Yes, but why would you? They already have plenty of trains there already.... )

[ebarker]

from the press release

The FIRST Championship games for 2011 – 2013 will be housed at the America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis with a total of 502,000 contiguous square feet of exhibit space in six halls, 83 meeting rooms, the 1,411 fixed-seat Ferrara Theatre, the St. Louis Executive Conference Center and The Edward Jones Dome.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Can anyone help me with the venue information and the actual location?

I would appreciate it mightily.

The cool thing about the venue is the dome is literally attached to the convention center. You come out of hall 5 and you are on the floor of the dome.