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 
We have a NEMO shirt? Where was I :o
Most important is the “the vest” for those times I’m working… 13 pockets, about 2 lbs (before adding the radio) ready to go: business cards, nemo cards, tiny first aid kit, waterless hand cleaner, zip ties, pens, markers, safety glasses (2), reading glasses, sun glasses, distance glasses (it’s tough getting old), chapstick, gum & breathmints, one really old granola bar, quarters, ibuprophen, earplugs, thumbdrive, tissues, raffle tickets, cell phone, even holds a clipboard, and finally, those all-important color-coded index cards 
I guess I will also need a suitcase for my toothbrush, bathing suit, and socks…
You were too busy with other FIRST things when I was doing the NEMO Fall 2005 East Coast tour so you missed the boat on the shirt, Jenny, sorry! :yikes:
My planned packing list:
-Clothing (including dark pants–khakis get too dirty too quickly around robots)
-Toiletries (obviously)
-iPod full of some good music for the four-hour drive each way, plus the obligatory FM transmitter. (Maybe by the end, I’ll have the entire White Album memorized. Hellll-tah skellllll-tah…)
-Swim trunks, if I can find them. (I haven’t broken them out in about a year, so it’ll be an experience trying to hunt them down.)
-Webhug raffle tickets, natch
-My good tennis shoes, handy for playing catch with Genia
For me there isn’t an extensive list, but here it goes anyways.
-MONEY
-Team awards to hand out
-pocket knife and multi-tool (Remember to pack these in my checked luggage)
-t-shirts I owe people
-Clothing, including jeans, shorts, and the all important 217 shirt for Saturday.
-Toiletries
-gum and breath mints
-camera… if I can find it
-iPod and headphones
-three frisbees, you can never have enough frisbees
-Industrial grade sharpies
-the few pins i actually wear at competition. (including my “Dave says’That’s pimp too!’” button)
-scouting sheets
-room for FIRST store stuff
That about covers it I think