Initial Workshop

Capstone Workshop

5 June 2004	The capstone workshop commences at 17:00 at Trimble Hall at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
6 June 2004	At 08:00, participants will be bussed to Port Townsend, Washington, 90 minutes away.
6-10 June 2004	Workshop activities. Participants will be housed in The Bishop Victorian and The Swan hotel in downtown Port Townsend.
10 June 2004	Participants will be bussed back to the University of Puget Sound, leaving Port Townsend at 16:00.
11 June 2004	No activities planned. Participants depart depending on their own schedule.

Food, Lodging, and Transportation

All arrangements for food and lodging will be made by the workshop organizers as will transportation between Tacoma and Port Townsend. Food, lodging, local transportation and workshop materials from dinner, June 5 through breakfast, June 11 are included in the cost of the workshop (covered by NSF for all participants teaching in a US institution of higher education), except for dinner on June 7, and lunch and dinner on June 8. Transportation subsidies of $2000 are available in total for all NSF-sponsored participants, and will be split equally among all those indicating a need for the subsidy and providing documented expenses at least as great as the subsidy requested. Participants are responsible for all other costs of attendance not mentioned.

The closest airport is the Sea-Tac airport, 20 miles north of Tacoma, with direct flights from locations across the USA and internationally. The Sound Transit 574 bus leaves about once/hour from the airport to downtown Tacoma from Sea-Tac, costing $2. Get a transfer if you are continuing to UPS via bus. Please ask at the transit information desk at baggage claim where to catch this bus. Make sure to get off the bus at the "Tacoma Dome Station". From there, you can either take a Taxi (about $7.50) to Wheelock Student Center at UPS, or a combination of buses. Most buses that leave from where the 574 drops you at the Dome station go to 10th and Commerce (ask the bus driver), which is where you should get off. Walk to Zone F (it is marked). You then want the Pierce Transit 16 bus, which should be marked "16 UPS/TCC" (or something similar). Exit the bus at 15th and Alder, one block from Wheelock. Walk one block west (the direction the bus was traveling) to Wheelock.

Alternatively, you can take the Shuttle Express or the Capital Aeroporter from the airport directly to the Wheelock student center at a cost of $25-30.

Taxis directly from the airport to UPS will likely cost $50-60.

For those driving to UPS, please see the driving directions.

If you arrive at UPS between 9am and 5pm on June 5 (or June 4, if you have pre-arranged early arrival), you should register in "The Cellar", basement of Wheelock Student Center. If you arrive outside these hours, you can register at Security, (253) 879-3311, just to the East of Wheelock. See the map for the location on campus.

Please see the following information about staying in the residences at UPS, which includes information about accessing the Internet.

We will meet in The Forum in Trimble Hall at 5:00pm for drinks, 6:30pm for food. The people at registration in Wheelock will direct you to Trimble Hall, where you will be staying.

The Fun Stuff

The Pacific Northwest offers abundant opportunities for sightseeing and recreation, with the Olympic mountains and the Puget Sound surrounding Port Townsend, the San Juan Islands just to the north of Port Townsend and the Cascade Mountains and Mount Ranier less than two hours from Tacoma. Portland Oregon is 150 miles south of Tacoma, Seattle is 30 miles north, and Vancouver, B.C. is 150 miles north of Tacoma.