Introduction

See Student Volunteer Schedule of Tasks.

The Student Volunteer program is an opportunity for students to associate with the top academics from Australasia in a range of computer science subjects. In return for a few hours of their time, student volunteers receive complimentary registration, free admission to sessions, and other benefits. This year job assignments include assisting with symposia, checking badges at doors, manning the registration desk and information booth, helping with traffic flow and general assistance to keep the conference running smoothly. This page is an attempt to provide some instructions for student volunteers. See the conference web site for further information about the conference.

Student Volunteer Benefits

In 2009 all student volunteers will receive:

• Full conference registration (valued at $550)
• Conference dinner ticket (valued at $80)
• Conference T-Shirt (to be worn when working as a volunteer at the conference)
• Lunches (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
• Access to attend the student only events

Registration Desk

The registration desk is located in the Oceania Room and is the focal point of the conference. This is where attendees get their conference bags. If you have questions from attendees and not sure of the answer then please send them to the registration desk for clarification.

Attendee Types

ACSW has a number of conferences during the week. All attendees only need to register for ACSW not each separate conference. Only attendees with a conference badge are allowed to attend ACSW sessions and special events. There are some different types of attendees:

• Full conference attendee
• Day conference attendee (these badges will be separate colours)
• Press attendee (their maybe some people from various papers and magazines attending)

Description of Tasks

The following are the tasks that you will get to do as a student volunteer at the conference. See Venue for the location of the rooms within Te Papa.

If working at a room during a session your responsibility is to monitor attendees coming into the room at the door to the room. Only conference attendees with a badge may attend a session. You are responsible for assisting presenters with AV equipment, lighting and anything else that is required by the session chair and organising committee. If there are any concerns or issues please contact someone at the registration desk and we will help solve any issues.

• Setup IT Equipment - helping on Monday setup all the rooms and making sure the computers, projectors, etc. are all working for the conference.
• Bag Packing - packing the conference bags for the attendees on the Monday and helping set up registration.
• Registration - the main point of contact for the conference is the registration desk located in the Oceania Room. Someone will be rostered at registration from 0900-1800. Each volunteer will get to work at the registration desk. The main duty for this task is to register people for the conference and answering any questions. There are likely to be many questions about the conference and some about the local area.
• Soundings Theatre - this is the room where the key note sessions will take place and papers from the ACSC conference.
• ICON - this is the room where the ACE conference will take place.
• Telstra Clear - there are a number of rooms here where all the other conferences will take place
• Welcome Reception - this task will involve badge checking allowing only attendees in
• Conference Dinner - this task will involve badge checking allowing only attendees in at the Boat Shed, helping set anything up, and any other task that pops up during the event
• Student Events - some of you will be required to assist with the student events on Tuesday and Wednesday night located at different locations other than Te Papa