Meetings: Teachers & Students
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Student Session Aides
Volunteer and attend the meeting for free!
![[PHOTOGRAPH] Student session aides keeping attendance at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting](/meetings/2013/images/session_aides_4250_250x203.jpg "[PHOTOGRAPH] Student session aides keeping attendance at the 2013 AAAS")
See the Annual Meeting from behind the scenes by volunteering as a Student Session Aide.
Student Session Aide registration is now closed.
All session aide volunteers must attend the orientation session on Thursday, 14 February.
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. To qualify to be a session aide you must be registered in an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral degree program. Advisers must certify eligibility. Post-docs and professionals are not eligible.
Responsibilities
Your primary responsibility will be session monitoring. This includes estimating attendance; evaluating audience interest, session content, and speaker performance; and providing audiovisual assistance, if needed. Training will be provided at orientation.
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
Volunteer for 16 hours and receive:
- Free meeting registration
- Free one-year subscription to Science Online
