Volunteer Opportunities at the Florida Collegiate Honors Conference
The Hicks Honors College is hosting the Florida Collegiate Honors Conference in Jacksonville February 24-26. About 250 honors students, faculty and administrators from across the state will convene at the Embassy Suites, Baymeadows Road for a weekend of sharing research and honors ideas. We are looking for a number of students willing to volunteer at the event in a variety of roles. This is a great opportunity for you to see what a professional conference is like in preparation for giving a presentation at one yourself in the future. If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up for one or more of the following opportunities by Monday, Feb 13. Thank you!
The bulk of the work will be on Saturday, February 25, but I have a few roles that will need to be filled on Friday night or Sunday morning. Here is the lineup:
Friday:
4-8pm: Students to man the registration tables and hand out conference name tags, answer questions and direct people. Dinner will be included. I need 3 volunteers.
Saturday:
8-10am: Students to man the registration tables and hand out conference name tags, answer questions and direct people. I will need 1-2 volunteers.
9-12pm and 2-5pm: student moderators. There are 7 rooms, and I need one student in each one. Each hour, you’d open the session, introduce the speakers, give them time warnings so they end on time, and take questions, then thank everyone and close the session. If you can stay for a 3-hour block, I will feed you lunch for the first session or dinner for the second session. I need 14 students total. If you can’t do a full three hours, you can do 1-2 hour blocks, but I would not be able to offer you a meal (sorry!).
6:30-8:30pm: 1-2 students to be at MOCA to greet guests and let them know what they are able to see and where they are allowed to have the food/drinks. You’d be welcome to share in the hors d’oeuvres!
5-9pm: Dinner-as-text facilitators. Help organize groups going on Dinner as Text, and facilitate small group conversations at the end. I’d assign each one to a particular restaurant so you’d probably want to have cased the joint in advance, at least knowing where it is, what is around it, etc.
Sunday:
9-11am: Student moderators. These are for the writing contest winners. Again you’d introduce each student. They are reading written papers, so you’d make sure everyone was within the page limit before-hand, so you don’t need to keep time. If there is time at the end, you’d take questions, and then close the session, thanking the audience.