Cascadia Rail Summit: Student-Volunteer Opportunity

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.

Skanska Scholarship Opportunity

Skanska is offeringg two $3,000 scholarships to UW Juniors, open to both Civil Engineering and Construction Management majors. The application is due November 15th, 2019 by end of day. Scholarship recipients will also be offered a 2020 summer internship!

Eligibilty:

  • Must be full-time student in their junior year, majoring in Construction/Civil Engineering
  • Must have interesting in future employment in commercial construction
  • Must be US Citizen or documented permanent US resident

Application Procedure:

  • Submit finished applications to the two email listed below
    • All applications should be typed. No hand-written applications will be accepted
  • Finalist will attend an interview session with representatives of Skanska for final determination

Applications will be evaluated on the following:

  • Involvement in extracurricular activities
  • Involvement in construction-focused clubs, associations, and events
  • Work experience
  • Academic performance, with a minimum 3.0 GPA

Copy this link to download the application:
https://skanska.box.com/v/skanskascholarship2019

Send Application Here:
Josiah.Mooi@skanska.com AND
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If you have any questions or having any difficulties submitting the application, please feel free to reach out to Josiah Mooi, Senior Project Engineer at Skanska via the following methods: Mobile Phone: +1 (206) 454-9519; Email: josiah.mooi@skanska.com