We also learned a lot about putting literature out too early. Three food tents help to keep participants on site. Show management now works with a local tent supplier headquartered nearby, which means that personnel can now be on site if the weather threatens. Getting people behind the wheel and experiencing the equipment is probably the best thing we offer by staging at the airport. The show's been a bigger hit than I ever anticipated.
Basketball court is removed to make way for show floor and stage.
If we were going to grow, the Coliseum was the only facility that could handle us. We build a stage for our opening event and have theater-style seating in the basketball stands. The sound system, designed to broadcast to an arena full of cheering fans, was so difficult for our presenters that we had to bring in extra stage speakers so that the sound would be projected directly at the smaller show audience in the stands. And in 1993 during the Midwest floods, the below-grade arena was turned into the world's largest indoor swimming pool. But the school officials were still able to clean up the 10 feet of water in time for our show.