SED!
If you didn’t get Belinda’s e-mail, it’s included below.
Please remember to go and leave your information at the link below if you are interested in attending National Convention and partaking with the SED NatCon Package! Pay attention to all deadlines!!
If you are interested in any way in traveling with and staying with the SED for National Convention this summer in Springfield, Massachusetts, please continue reading this email. If you are not at all interested, please still read this email and forward it to the rest of your chapter!!!
Your TBSigma and KKPsi SED Councils have been considering our options in order to have the largest possible SED representation in Springfield. We concluded that we need to offer an opportunity to travel in style and comfort (more affordable too!).
We have investigated prices to find the most affordable option for all of us. This is what we came up with:
SED Takeover NatCon!
For approx $300-450 per person, we are looking into chartering a bus (or busses, depending on interest) and booking a block of rooms for the SED to stay in at convention. (This price is pending until we have an accurate number of people interested, however, it will not be above $450.)
This $300-450 will get you to Springfield and back, via charter bus, with several stops along the way AND hotel for 4 nights (Tuesday-Friday).
TRAVEL- Our loose itinerary right now is for the bus(ses) to originally depart from Birmingham, AL on Monday, July 22 and arrive in Springfield on Tuesday, July 23. The drive is about 17 hours, but with stops in ATL, GA; Charlotte and Greensboro, NC; dinner and restroom breaks, we are looking at a 20 hour trip.
*If you want to board the bus(ses) at our later stops, no problem! However, your price will be the same as everyone else’s and you MUST be on time to our scheduled stop, we will not wait for you!*
Leaving convention, our plan is to leave Springfield on Saturday, July 27 after banquet that night and drive through the night, arriving back on Sunday, July 28.
LODGING- Our intention is to book rooms in the host hotel, it is a reasonable fee per night, however split between 5 people in each, it will be absolutely affordable! Rooms will not be assigned to you by the District Councils, we will send out a form later for people to sign up as chapters/individuals/etc.
PAYMENT PROCESS- The money and funding from this trip do still come from you. However, if you consider hotel and gas prices driving individually or flying, paying $300-450 for both travel AND lodging is an opportunity that we should not pass up!
This trip’s payments will run similar to every band trip you’ve ever been on: we will have a deposit date (most likely at the end of May), where you will be required to mail us a stated amount (non-refundable), so that we can officially book the bus(ses) and hotel. Then, the final payment of the remaining amount will be due probably a month or so later (end of May ish). All payments will have to be on time, unless previously discussed with trip coordinators. This is NOT, by any means, a district fundraiser, we are merely serving as the mediator to get as many SED-ers as possible to National Convention!
I know this has been a long email, but this is the best method possible to relay all the correct information to as many of you as possible!
So, if you are interested in attending NatCon with the SED, we need to know! Please take a min. to send us your information via this form—
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION FORM
YOUR RESPONSE NEEDS TO BE IN BY WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST. The reason for this haste is so that we can poll you, then begin to make official travel arrangements for the number who are seriously interested.
To attend NatCon with the SED, we NEED your responses on this form, so that we will have an accurate number of bodies for the bus(ses).
I hope to hear from as many of you as possible! Please forward this on to as !any SED sisters and brothers, we want everyone to have this opportunity!
