NEMO has compiled 32 Travel Tips into a handy one-page, double-sided handout sheet just in time for your team to use when making travel plans for this year’s competitions!
The Travel Tips can be found in the White Papers:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/papers.php?s=&action=single&paperid=392
I like this! This would’ve been helpful last year, at least for me … :rolleyes:
… want to hear the story you say … well if you insist …
It was our first trip - to the Peachtree Regional … and bare in mind that I hadn’t traveled in about 2 years before that. I had heard about most of the restrictions that the airports had … so I avoided packing the things that they would stop you for. Anyway, we get to the point where they are checking you and passing you through the metal detector and there’s a huge line of people taking off jewelry, shoes, anything metal. So I do the same, but as I’m passing the metal detector it goes off and starts beeping. Happens to be that my pants have this belt (that is incredibly hard to take off) which had a really weird metal buckle. So there I am in front of the officer trying to take off my belt and just couldn’t … it was really hard to take off … so she took me aside and patted me down then she passed her metal detector all over me. I was the only person stopped … and I was very upset and embarrassed :o .
Something I’m not going to forget …
Thanks for the tips NEMO!! 
Yes, Security procedures at airports and other venues have become very restrictive. We remind our students to not wear shoes with large metal pieces on them, etc. when traveling. RAGE doesn’t even wear our t-shirts because of the large word “RAGE” on them!
Glad you liked the tips - please share them with your travel committee.
A lot of that stuff looked really familiar, like stuff we do. I hope many teams make good use of it, it’s great advice. Good job with the list!!!
I like # 32, check out corporate apartments instead of hotels.
Last year when my company sent me to Chicago I lived in a corporate apartment, the Oakwood. This was much better than a hotel room.
I may have mentioned this before, but when MOE travels we request that all students wear our team shirt. It makes it much easier to spot anyone who wandered off (particularly with our shirt!). We do get a lot of questions which gives us a chance to publicize the program.
In the attached picture, taken on the subway in Atlanta, see if you can spot MOE.