Expenses Details:

• Registration Fee: The registration cost for the conference is $200 per person which includes daily transportation to and from the hotels, all programming, lunch, dinner, snacks, daily gifts, and all entertainment during the conference.

• Airfare (approximately $400-$500 ) – The MASC delegation will fly in on Thursday morning and participate in the pre-conference event.  For the return flight, it is cheaper to stay the extra night and fly out early on Monday morning.  (Students will be able to have parents book their plane tickets using any discounts on mileage points, etc.  MASC would set a meeting time at the Albuquerque airport.   This might be a great savings for students on the overall cost of the trip.)

• Ground Transportation from Airport to Hotel (arriving) School to Airport (departing) approximately $30 using Uber.  With a small delegation, MASC uses Uber as buses are very expensive.  So parental permission to ride in an Uber vehicle is needed.

• Hotel: Embassy Suites by Hilton Albuquerque (Conference Rate: $179.22 per night – double bed suite – up to six people per room
   – if shared by 6 students = $119.48
– if shared by 5 students = $143.37
– if shared by 4 students = $179.22
-if shared by 3 students = $238.96
– if shared by 2 students = $385.44
* In the past, MASC has shared a room with another state delegation to fill the room and save money!!

• Pre-Conference Social: Thursday, June 20th:  $50 This includes mixer activities, dinner, New Mexico cultural entertainment, rodeo, and bus transportation to and from the hotel – starts at 5:30 p.m.

• MASC tee shirts/crab hat/MD crab pins: $100   This cost is based on getting two MASC tee shirts (approximately $12 each), two crab hats (approximately $15), MD crab pins ($12 per dozen – students will want several dozen for trading)

• Chaperone Fee – MASC is a fairly new 501C3 non-profit.  The assistant executive director volunteers all of her time.  The chaperone fee helps MASC to cover a very small part of the costs to send a delegation to this great conference (in the past, there has only been ONE school in Maryland that has attended as a school delegation).

• Optional – pre or post-conference ideas – see the resources that New Mexico has compiled

Approximate Total: $1,79.22 (based on $500 airfare, approximate $25 ground transportation, 4 students same gender attending, and NOT including any optional pre/post conference trips)

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