SAS Pudong has had a full two days in St. Louis. We arrived late Monday night after being delayed in Chicago due to Storms. After checking in all the team fell into bed. We had a slow easy morning on Tuesday meeting for breakfast in the Westin Hotel. Following our breakfast meeting we decided to do a bit of touring and walked down to the St. Louis Arch, about a 15 minute walk. Four of our group braved the trip up the Arch. Following we walked up to the Museum and then returned back to the hotel in the early afternoon for some team planing time. We all were/are suffering from jet lag. Mr David, Mr and Mrs Boyer, Kevin and Owen braved the evening and went out to eat at a local barbecue place. The line was long, but it was worth the wait. Alex and Will had crashed and fallen asleep we brought food back for them.

Wednesday was a very full day. We were up and breakfasted by 8:30 and headed down to the tourney area. We were early in which was a good thing in that we were not rushed in setting up our booth. We met teams for around the world. We had an especially good time meeting with one of the teams from Lebanon. After setting up our booth, the team took turns walking through the pit area. We had the great fortune of meeting up with the Martins, past SAS students/parents who are down from Michigan with and FTC and FRC teams. It was great meeting up with them and discussing the tournament process. Following a coaches meeting the team headed back to the hotel where we took a 2 hour power nap then got back up to work on presentations and planning for Thursday’s competition.

Today, Thursday, we are headed down to the tournament site early. We have an 8 am practice time then begin our judging times at 9:40 am. This begins a full hour of presentations. There is a break for lunch then the team has 3 practice rounds on the boards. Our full scored missions begin Friday.

Pictures from yesterday.