Usually, the participants go on the journey alone, with just the crew and the director for company.
For meeting locations, participants can call or go to www.bcue.org.
A participant can even go to "a side room" for a private conversation.
In addition, participants attend several talks and go on tours of technical areas.
Half the participants have gone to college, he said.
After that she asks the participants to go out of the room for some time.
Every participant goes to college armed with an 800 number to call and gets frequent care packages as well.
The first three participants in each district go to the national round.
After ending the thavasu, the participants went back to their native places.
A site owner reported she learned after the event that participants went two days without water before entering the lodge.