Laptop
Fluid Mechanics Book
FIRST Scoring System Reference Guide to give to David Kelly
TI-89
My Black Daily Planner
Plane Tickets
Airport Passage Van Service Ticket
Cell Phone
Toothbrush
ER Season 1 for plane ride
Weird New England Book
Sudoku
Digital Camera
Leatherman
Caffine
AP test prep stuff/homework…i’ll be studyin’ for my BC Calc test on the plane.
Not just a checklist of what you’re going to pack, but a checklist of what you DID pack so you don’t forget anything!
remember your gameboy!
chargers for: phone, gameboy, laptop, camcorder, camera, ipod, drill (and maybe even the robot)
extra clean socks
Your chargers
E-charges
Extra Chargers
Tertiary Charges
Extra batteries
Rechargeable batteries
Battery Chargers
Plus a bag of chips if you are going on an airplane (DO NOT OPEN THEM BEFORE/WHILE ON THE PLANE)
You will see why you need that last item on the list, when the time comes.
Programmers, they may be small, quite and easy to miss while leaving for Atlanta but its hard to do anything robotic without them, I’ve tried
Let’s see, there’s only so much I can pack, but I’ll fit it all somehow:
iPod Mini (I don’t care if it’s ancient, it plays music and the battery lasts)
Nintendo DS w/ Metroid Prime: Hunters and Mario Kart DS
Cell Phone with plenty of minutes
CHARGERS!!
Bathing Suit
Various combos of pants and shorts
The two team T-Shirts I’ll be swapping inbetween throughout the 5 days
Sweatshirt for the plane and the social
Thumbdrive for swapping code
Duct Tape Wallet
MONEY!!
Gracious Professionalism
Pre-E3 Tension with no internet for 5 days
Scouting papers from SBPLI
Blank scouting papers
Whiteboard with Red, Blue, and Black markers
Quarters for arcade machines at hotel
Enough internal and stored energy to last 5 days
50% grease
49% sugar
1% flour
its amazing they dont spontaneously combust while you are eating them!
All though 114 isn’t going to nationals this year, team 100 has been kind enough to let me bunk with them as an “honorary team member”. Mabye I’ll even get a famous orange and black Dr. Suess hat. :rolleyes: 971 did offer too, but bureaucratic hold ups prevented me from staying with them. 
So anyways, don’t forget the XBOX! I’ve been informed that 100 is gonna be doing some hardcore Halo playing, and I look forward to getting in on the action.
Hope to see everyone at the webhug and pack light!
Michael C.
- GP
- Food
- Thank you cards for your team mentors.
- Thank you cards to Dean and the FIRST family
- Anything else you feel you will need.
All of this I found essential at the regional competition, or at one point really wished I had brought:
-Machinery’s Handbook
-extension cord
-colored sharpies (for scratches on painted parts)
-flashlight
-small broom and dustpan (or better yet, a shop vac)
-extra long zip-ties
-7.2 V backup battery charger
-extra tether cables
-paper towels
-bottled water (the team will love you!)
-Lexan sheet assortment (to cover up vulnerable components)
-First Aid kit
-1.5" hole saw (hopefully you will never need to use this, but if you are over 120 pounds…)
-SCHOOLWORK 
Have you hugged your programmer today?
Plenty of time… I got till Wednesday morning sometime…
I should really find out what time we are leaving eh?
Wait… what? Do they do what I think they do, and will I get blamed for making a loud noise when it happens…
LOL I don’t think I’ll personally be the one doing that. LOL
Hehehe… Thanks for reminding me, but that’s not what WE use them for.
Thanks for the suggestions people, and keep them coming. I have to do my shopping & packing this weekend, and Monday and Tuesday nights.
See you all in Atlanta!!!
This year’s packing is going to be very different for me (I’ve always packed a suitcase full of games, pit displays, goodie bags for the students, team buttons, etc. in my previous years as mentor on a team!)
This year I need to remember to bring:
NEMO buttons
NEMO CDs
NEMO business cards
clipboard
sharpie
Vex lanyard
Vex earrings (if I finish them in time!)
My specialty buttons- “I support CT FLL”, “I Found NEMO”, “Ask me about FIRST”, my CD profile button, n.e.rd. button, 5-yr FIRST volunteer pin
My shirts - NEMO, n.e.r.d., RAGE Travel shirt (I’m traveling with them)
Money to buy something at LogoLoc store
CD raffle tickets
Sudoku book for on the plane
Other clothes, toiletries, etc.
I think instead of trying to clone, you should triplicate
NEMO, Vex, FLL, n.e.r.d., FIRST, RAGE, CD
no make that - septuplicate (is that a word?) :ahh: -more suitcase room and it would give Big Mike something to do trying to find all of you to hug.
I think I may just sew the front of one shirt to the back of another and then do the same with another set and sew THAT into the inside of the first set and make it reversable. Then I’d have 4 shirts in one and could just switch it around when I needed it! (how’s that for thinking outside the box?)
Elgin you really have until Tuesday night to pack. The bus leaves at 9:30 A.M. :ahh:
I’m sorry I just can’t help myself -
that would be a really n.e.r.d.-y shirtbox.
As is true for any trip, for Championships I would bring half the stuff I think I need and twice the money.
OK, ok… for some reason I thought 3pm departure… but… in any case, I guess I have until early Wednesday morning-ish then to pack…
I’m good to go. 
I see no problem with that… lol Buy all the stuff you forget, and add a suitcase to carry it all back home to the shopping list as well.
I’ve only had to do that once… We bought way to many souvenirs, and had to buy another suitcase to bring it all home in.
-Clothes (including the most important FIRSTfem item, the skort)
-VC Handbook & Shirt
-Clipboard
-Cell phone, Palm Pilot & Chargers
-Sunglasses/Visor (I haven’t decided yet)
-“Toiletries”, including wrinkle releaser & nail polish
-Current editions of the NY Times & Cosmo
Elgin, I know this doesn’t help you much, but I thought I would share 