Student Volunteers

The Student Volunteers final deadline has passed! If you are looking for up to date information on Student Volunteer activity, please visit the Student Volunteers site (off of the official site) at http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~dworman/CHI2000-SV/index.html. This site is maintained by the SV co-chairs, and contains valuable information such as the current waitlist status, information of housing, and an archive of the official SV Newsletters.

Student Volunteers are an integral part of the success of each CHI conference. Students from all disciplines and cultures are invited to be part of the most exciting event in the HCI field. A wide variety of positions are available at the conference. Many of the duties are not glamorous, but all provide opportunities to interact with CHI 2000 contributors, attendees, and committee members from all parts of the world and from diverse areas of the HCI community.

Application Information
For those of you who have not yet been accepted (you would have recieved an email confirming acceptance), please do not despair! There is a big turn over -- as the year progresses and individuals realize they cannot make the conference or fulfill their SV obligations, they drop out allowing waitlisted individuals to join. The initial waitlist was created from the unlucky ones who applied before the September deadline but did not draw a lucky number.

Benefits
In return for their help at the conference, student volunteers will receive many benefits including free conference registration, some meals, a Conference Reception ticket, a student volunteer T-shirt, and an invitation to the volunteer thank-you party. Student volunteers are responsible for their own housing, travel to and from The Hague, and those meals not provided. Reduced housing rates may be available for student volunteers.

Student volunteers will have access to the student volunteer email list, which helps to create a community before the conference.

Qualifications
Volunteers must be undergraduate, Master's, or doctoral students during the 1999-2000 academic year. All students, regardless of discipline, are encouraged to apply. No experience is required. We are looking for enthusiastic, intelligent, reliable people. Volunteers must commit to a total of 20 volunteer hours of work at the conference during 31 March through 6 April 2000.

A valid, dated student identification card or a letter from your university or school must be presented when registering at the conference. Student volunteers will be chosen at random from applications received by the Preliminary Deadline. The primary waiting list will consist of applications received by the Preliminary Deadline but not initially selected. Applications received after the Preliminary Deadline and before the Final Deadline will be placed on a secondary waiting list in the order in which they are received. Historically, more students apply than can be accepted, so early application is encouraged. However, applicants on the waiting list often get in, so do not be discouraged.