Hi Everyone,
Here are a few notes you should be aware of. Please read this entire email.
SAT CONFLICTS
We just received word from ARML about how to resolve conflicts for students who are signed up to take an SAT on the same date as ARML. We strongly encourage you to take your SAT on another date, but if you have already signed up for the SAT on June 4, it may still be possible to go to ARML. Contact us for more details.
PRACTICES
Our first practice will be this Sunday, April 17, at Valley Christian School in San Jose. Please see https://math.berkeley.edu/~moorxu/2016ARML/ for more details. Practice dates and locations will be updated on Moor's site as they are confirmed. If your school is able to host a practice, please contact us so we can follow up with you.
The following weekend we will take the ARML Local contest at practice, so watch for more details on that as well.
FLIGHTS
We are starting to coordinate transportation for ARML this year, and I'm ready to open up the first three flight options. Here they are:
SAN FRANCISCO
Southwest 1972, June 3
SFO-LAS, 5:35-7:00am
Southwest 1914, June 4
LAS-SFO, 7:30-9:00pm
OAKLAND
Southwest 1576, June 3
OAK-LAS, 5:20-6:45am
Southwest 267, June 4
LAS-OAK, 7:15-8:40pm
SACRAMENTO
Southwest 767, June 2 (note that this is Thursday night)
SMF-LAS, 9:35-10:50pm
Southwest 1971, June 4
LAS-SMF, 6:40-9:30pm
For any student who purchases one of these EXACT round trips and sends us confirmation at arml@mathleague.org by midnight on April 30, we will refund $100 of your ARML fee because we will likely be able to sell your seat on the bus to someone else. Right now the first round trip is $174, the second is $194, and the third is $290, but I certainly expect the fares to go up as people start buying tickets. Please note that this $100 refund will not necessarily apply to other flights we open up or to purchases made after April 30; if we approve new flights or extend the deadline for claiming refunds I will post details, but DO NOT ask about other flights for now. Remember, NO student goes to ARML unless it is on the bus or one of the flights we approve, as we need adult supervision at all times on the trip.
For parents interested in going to Las Vegas, you may feel free to book any flight you choose and to make your own arrangements for accommodations in Las Vegas. If you are traveling independently to Las Vegas, we'd still like to know your transportation details so we can coordinate various aspects of the trip with you (for instance, we may be able to assist you with ground transportation, or we may ask you to volunteer to chaperone one of the flights if you are taking one of the approved flights). Any parents interested in riding the bus or staying in the dorms on campus should contact us for more details regarding cost and availability.
T-SHIRTS
We need a team t-shirt for ARML -- and you have a chance to design it! Any student who wishes to submit a design is very welcome to do so; we will vote on the designs in in mid-May.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, May 4th. Voting will begin on Tuesday May 5th and run for one week. Once the voting begins, we will not be able to add late submissions.
Here are the ground rules -- please read them carefully, even the ones at the end!
Include the words "SFBA" or "San Francisco Bay Area" or both
Include the words "NorCal" or "Northern California" or both
Include the words "ARML" or "American Regions Mathematics League" or both
Include at least the year (2016). You *could* also include the specific days (May 29 - 30), and/or "UNLV" or "Las Vegas, Nevada" or "University of Nevada, Las Vegas" or some variant of this.
Do NOT include anything that might be considered offensive to other students, parents, teachers, or, well, anyone. This has never been a problem in the past, but we do explicitly reserve the right to censor submissions that fail to meet this criterion.
Do NOT use copyrighted material, unless you own the copyright!
Also, please be realistic about what your design will look like on a t-shirt
Use a maximum of 4 colors (and different shades count as different colors! This will be silk-screened, so subtle blending and mixing of these 4 colors is out; On the other hand, half-tones are ok.) Front and back count separately -- that is, you could have 2 colors on each side, or 3 on one side and 1 on the other, or simply have JUST front artwork with 4 colors. You don't need to count the background color of the shirt
It would be helpful if you can produce your design in a high-resolution version (preferably TIFF, PSD, or EPS formats, the sort of thing you can do with Photoshop, GIMP, or Paint.NET, etc.) for the printers. Low-resolution designs do NOT look good on t-shirts! If you don't have the tools to do this, our t-shirt printing company will have their art staff redo your design in a higher-resolution format if you can't, but there's no guarantee it will be exactly the same.
Email us (arml@mathleague.org) your files, the names of those who worked on the design, and a name for the design for the voting.
ELITE TEAM SELECTION
The coaching staff has identified our first 15 elite team members this year. We plan to select two elite teams this year, so each of these students is guaranteed a spot on either the A1 or A2 team. This list contains only students who signed up and paid for ARML on the priority timeline we established, but we still have 15 more spots to assign, so it's not too late to qualify for an elite team if you make sure your payment is in, show up to practice, and impress us. :) Remember, we will continue to accept payments until all our teams are filled, so if you haven't submitted payment yet and plan to go to ARML, please make sure to do that ASAP. Here are our first 15 elite team members:
- Kai-Siang Ang
- Anton Cao
- Kevin Chang
- Cynthia Chen
- Matthew Hase-Liu
- David Hu
- Arav Karighattam
- Sujay Kazi
- Austin Lei
- Jeffery Li
- Wentinn Liao
- Andrew Lin
- Edwin Peng
- Aadeesh Shastry
- Stanley Wang
