Meetings: Teachers & Students
http://www.aaas.org//meetings/2011/ts/aides.shtml
Student Session Aides
Volunteer and attend the meeting for free!
![[PHOTOGRAPH] An attentive woman in audience, taking notes](/meetings/Annual_Meeting/2008_boston/images_AM/Photos/women_aaas7-1301.jpg "[PHOTOGRAPH] An attentive woman in audience, taking notes")
Sign up to be a student session aide; the deadline is 11:59 p.m. PT on 15 January 2011!
See the Annual Meeting from behind the scenes by volunteering as a Student Session Aide!
Students will work closely with AAAS administrators to ensure that the meeting runs smoothly, and will get the chance to listen to and meet a range of interesting people, including leading scientists, Nobel Laureates, popular authors, government leaders, and radio and television personalities.
Session Aides serve a very important role as liaison between symposium organizers and speakers and AAAS Headquarters.
Register as a student session aide today!
» All Session Aide volunteers must attend the orientation session on Thursday, 17 February.
Responsibilities
Your primary responsibility will be session monitoring. This includes estimating attendance; evaluating audience interest, session content, and speaker performance; and providing audio-visual assistance, if needed. Training will be provided at orientation.
"I was in audiences that comprised the world's top researchers... I was among the first to witness the extraordinary accomplishments of the effort to do the unthinkable"
—Student, Arizona State University speaking of the 2001 meeting and its Human Genome Seminar
Assignments May Also Include:
Assisting with crowd control at plenary lectures and special events.
Assisting judges and AAAS staff at the Student Poster Competition and the General Poster Session.
Benefits
Volunteer for 8 hours and receive:
- Free meeting registration
- Free poster registration
Volunteer for 16 hours and receive:
- Free meeting registration
- Free poster registration
and - Free one-year subscription to Science Online
