Volunteer Roles
The volunteer positions and responsibilities are listed below:
Volunteer Check-in Table
- Register all volunteers throughout the day
- Direct to onsite training
- Distribute lanyards (cluster, logistic volunteer, VIP)
- Provide hospitality/general information instructions
- Setup breakfast and replenish breakfast as time allows
Welcome/Greeter
- Welcome people
- Monitors entrances, exits, bathrooms, doors
- Engage with kids
- May rotate positions – this ensures the volunteers do not get bored at one station for too long.
Bus and School Check-In
- Located outside (the bus parking lot)
- Ask what school and check off on clipboard
- Bus number by order they arrive (not by school or district)
- Provide printed bus number to driver AND one for the teacher
- Guide bus towards lot
- General bus traffic support
Information & Security Desk
- Be knowledgeable on: Maps, exit help, lost and found
Bus Parking
- Located outside (bus parking lots)
- Direct (help) buses park in appropriate rows
- Encourage buses to stay
- Direct the bus drivers to the bus driver station inside
- Guide/Funnel students walking to the flagged off entrance path
- Remind teachers to tell students what bus number to get back on
Volunteer, Bus Drive, and Exhibitor Hospitality
- Set up room
- Prepare tables and chairs
- Clean up room
- Monitor and replenish water, coffee, and all snacks (alert JA if running low on food, snacks, drinks)
Volunteer Captains
- Guide students through the career stations
- Serve as a point person for educators
