Breakaway (October 29-31, 2010)

Breakaway Logistics
1. The $55 is just for the registration fee. You will need to charge your students for their lodging (see more about lodging under "hotel" below), transportation, and meals en route. Students should bring money for the Breakaway store and pizza night.
2. Meals included for the weekend: 3 meals Saturday and breakfast Sunday.
3. Many of the churches make t-shirts (hand-made w/ fabric markers or have them printed). One site to utilize is www.customink.com. Standard turn time is 14 days but you can do a rush order (10 days) but that adds 25% to your orderHoover

Hoover High School
1. On Friday night - have your students submit their fine arts exhibit, video (for video competition) and sign up for a time slot to perform their music/drama selection. Be sure this does not interfere with sports (basketball is Saturday morning, volleyball is Saturday afternoon).
2. Upon arriving at Hoover on Saturday a.m., check out 1 pager per church from the control table as soon as you arrive so you and your students can be located throughout the day.
3. The music rooms are located in a different area of the school quite a distance from the gymnasium - allow plenty of time to arrive at your scheduled performance time.

Hotel - Embassy Suites
1. Room reservations need to be with a credit card made with the hotel by the stated deadline and you may be held responsible for any room cancellations.
2. This has to be a very firm number based on your breakout of girls and guys, including sponsors. Room assignments (names per room) can come later but need to be faxed to the hotel and to Tedand Jan at least a week prior.
3. The hotel rates quoted are per night - you are staying 2 nights.
4. King suites are approx. $95/night; double/double suites are $134/night (plus 12% hotel tax).
5. Putting 5 people (on the average) in a double/double or 3.5 people (on the average) in a king works out to be approximately $30/person/night--this is possible because each room also has a foldout couch in a separate room.
6. There are limited number of doubles on each floor so if you want to stay together as a group, reserve a mix of rooms (kings & doubles).

Banquet
Traditionally, the banquet is a semi-formal occasion and most of the students and sponsors dress up. However, this is optional--jeans are perfectly acceptable. There are assigned tables (by church) at the banquet.

Directions
Directions to Hoover High School: Take the Merle Hay Exit off I-35/80 and go south to Aurora.  Go east on Aurora (left) to the high school.  On Friday night, registration begins at 6:30.  The three-point shooting contest will be at 7:00 and the swimming competition will be at 8:00. Hope to see you there!