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World Championship Jamboree/Handbook
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Welcome to the iGEM 2013 World Championship Jamboree and congratulations to all the teams that have advanced! The next few days will be full of exciting presentations, stimulating conversations, well-deserved awards, and most of all, a lot of fun! The following information will guide you through the whole Jamboree event from what to expect at Friday night practice all the way up to the awards ceremony on Monday. Please read through this whole guide! It contains useful instructions and information that will ensure your Jamboree experience will go as smoothly as possible. And as a special note to team leaders, you will have some extra responsibilities so please read the section below for team leaders. |
| Pre - Jamboree | Jamboree Events | Further Details | Contact Information |
Pre - Jamboree
| Check- In | |
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| World Championship Teams can check-in on Friday afternoon (November 2nd at 3:00pm. Registration will be located in Compton Lounge in Building 26, room 110.At Registration you will pick up your team box containing team member badges, participation certificates, registration packets, lunch tickets, and other important and useful information. Each team leader will be responsible for picking up the team box. This means that each member of the team DOES NOT have to stand in line at Registration. |
Important: in order to pick up your team box, you will be required to turn in general release forms for each
person that is on your team roster and registered to attend the World Championship Jamboree. The release
forms are absolutely necessary (see section on release forms below). Registration personnel will check off each release form for each team member. Badge(s) pertaining to each person missing a release form will be held at
Registration until the form has been turned in. Badges will be necessary for entrance into presentation rooms,
events, and for access to food.
Guests can check-in on Friday (November 2nd) at 3:00pm, also at Compton Lounge. If you did not register online, it will be possible to register on-site during the course of the Jamboree. Registration at this time will cost $325 for undergraduates and high school students, and $525 for everyone else. On Monday, however, on-site registration will take place at Kresge Auditorium. Entrance to the awards ceremony is not guaranteed to guests, and is dependent on the capacity of Kresge Auditorium. |
| Transportation | |
| There are iGEM shuttles from the Hyatt hotel to on- campus and from on-campus/Hyatt to and from Jillian's Boston. See the flyer in your registration folder for details. The cities of Boston and Cambridge have a public transportation system that is comprised of buses and subways. | You can find more information about the MBTA here: http://www.mbta.com. The World Championship Jamboree and its event locations are located near the MBTA Red Line at the Kendall/MIT subway stop. There are also several bus stops in the area. The school shuttle has stops across the campus. See http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/shuttles/index.html for more information about MIT shuttles. |
| iGEM around campus | Luggage |
| We have established two main hubs on the MIT campus – the Stata Center and Lobby 13. These hubs will have poster locations, food (lunches, breaks), and sponsor tables. This year there will be three presentation rooms across the campus. Check your team box for information on where you should set up your poster, and present. See the Campus Map for specific locations. | If you need to check out of your hotel on Monday morning and need to stow your luggage somewhere, you can bring it to Kresge Auditorium. However, we cannot guarantee that it will be locked or supervised during the awards ceremony. Luggage can only remain at Kresge half an hour after the awards ceremony ends, so it is absolutely critical that your luggage be picked up by that time. |
