The US High Speed Rail Association is inviting Student-Volunteers to exchange their time for exposure to their association and professional community.
In their conferences, they invite the top rail professionals from around the world to present and to attend. As you can imagine, this provides a great opportunity for Student-Volunteers to network with current rail leaders. You can see what’s going on in the industry right now and learn from talking to these professionals in order to gain a deeper understanding of what it will really be like in their particular specialty.
This is the agenda: http://www.ushsr.com/nwagenda2019.html
What They Ask:
Volunteers will be reporting to me at any time they are free to work with us on either or both days. As long as a Student-Volunteer is available for a minimum of a couple of hours, we are happy to have them. They’ll need help preparing registration material for the Summit on Wednesday 6 November and help checking registrants into the Summit on Thursday 7 November (Registration), ensuring that only registrants are admitted into the sessions (Security), communicating location of hospitality services like restrooms, break areas for food/beverages, and the lunch site as well as a little post-session and post- break clean up (Hospitality).
Benefits of Being a Student-Volunteer:
In return for completion of these tasks, Student-Volunteers are welcome to take turns attending sessions and attending freely the Wednesday night Reception (as long as they are volunteering on Wednesday). They will also have the opportunity to network with the Speakers and Conference Attendees as appropriate.
Once the sessions begin, volunteers can take turns sitting in on them. We are sure to have a sufficient support team so that there will be time for Student-Volunteers to be networking and attending the various sessions.
We also provide lunch and light snacks and beverages (after the attendees have taken theirs and moved into a session from the Break).
Contact Christine Robert, Dicrector of Operations at US High Speed Rail Association at (213) 804-1010 if you have any questions or concerns, or if you’re interested in volunteering.
Learn more about the association here.