CRS Annual Meeting Student Volunteer Program

PLEASE READ: You must first register and pay for the annual meeting (or workshop) and fill out a student volunteer registration form. You may submit the forms together. You may fax or e-mail the forms after scanning them. After you have worked your 12 hours, your payment will be refunded. For those students who do not have credit cards, you will be required to pay in cash at the Attendee Services Desk. Payment will be held until the end of the meeting and refunded after your 12 hours of volunteer service has been confirmed.

Positions Available

Session / Educational Workshop Usher: Monitor sessions as attendees enter and leave. Check badges to make sure only CRS registered attendees are entering. Monitor the room temperature and seating to make sure it is comfortable, alert audio-visual technician / call meeting manager if changes need to be made. Pass out materials, collect tickets, check badges, or other duties as requested by the moderator or meeting management staff. Session Ushers are to arrive 15 minutes before the session starts and are required to stay 15 minutes after the session ends.

Attendee Services Desk Assistant: Hand out registration packets and answer attendee questions. Assistants should speak English and bi-lingual assistants are always needed.

Speaker’s Preparation Room: Check-in speaker presentations and monitor computer usage in room. Work with audio-visual technician as requested.

Ticket Taker / Badge Checker: Collect tickets/invitations for workshops, sessions, and events. Check badges if no ticket or invitation is required.

Web Café Monitor: Monitor attendee’s time at the web café, helping to limit the number of attendees staying longer than 10 minutes.

Poster Sessions: Put up poster numbers for each session. Assist poster presenters. Remove posters (if left over from previous session) and take to Attendee Services Desk.

Relief Worker: Relieve other volunteers, assist meeting manager with a variety of functions such as sign placement, direct attendees to sessions, attendee services desk, packet stuffing, poster board numbering, other duties as needed.

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