- The humidity and all the walking. Don’t try to bring home a snow globe with your carry on.
- 1. Be completely hydrated for all the activities. 2. Have something like a business card ready to hand out to all the people you will meet. 3. Don’t carry a lot of things when going through security.
- Shoes, meals, rain. Get good shoes. Meals will be at food courts. It will rain.
- Make info on how to get security quickly. Carry only what you have to have.
- How expensive items are in D.C. I didn’t bring enough cash.
- Possibly to bring snacks for your hotel room.
- A fitted suit, camera and backpack.
- I personally was overly prepared. I unpacked, repacked, double triple checked my belongings but I did notice some other students forgot umbrellas and did not know how tight airport security was.
- Knowing which places would let you bring food in would have been nice. Maybe longer introduction to the other kids.
- When preparing for the trip, the manual and the yearbook came in extremely handy. I swear I read both each like 8 times!
- I think knowing the cost of souvenirs would have helped greatly.
- 1. Whether to take a backpack or shoulder bag. 2. Which Smithsonian’s we would be allowed to go to. 3. When we’ll have time to call home.
- Girls wear a ponytail on your wrist for when you get too sweaty. A pillow for traveling. Chapstick.
- Make sure that your “comfy” shoes are ones that you have actually walked miles in.
- Study the layout of DC so you can visit everything you want when you make the plan.
- The most unclear thing about the whole trip was the national scale. While you had mentioned that there would be students from other states you failed to specify the connection that this was a nationwide cooperative event not just an Arizona trip where we also other states.
