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Thank you for donating your money and/or time to help our school children!  Please click here to download the new Sponsorship & Volunteer form.

If you are currently a volunteer or interested in volunteering please check back here often for important announcements.

Open Volunteer Positions and Descriptions of Positions

ASK Room Chairperson – Open

  • Year round, attendence required Friday March 18, 2011.
  • Duties: Have packet for each vendor with the following: Map showing their room, info about hospitality available, their schedule, a certificate of participation and a thank you note.
  • Greet ASK Room vendors each morning
  • Help Vendors get situated
  • Check to see if they need a drink or food during the day (10 AM Wed – Fri and 10 and 2 on Sat.)
  • Write a thank-you note afterward.

Award Ceremony Chairperson – Open

  • March-April 2011, attendence required Saturday April 2, 2011
  • Manage volunteer who makes the power point of all advertisers to make sure it is done and ready for showing ....and accurate!
  • Work with volunteer Coordinator to get people to help organize students/teachers for walk in ceremony.
  • Rehearse with Boy Scout troop for flag ceremony.
  • Work with Desoto Jr. Singers for 10 minute pre-ceremony entertainment.
  • Make sure booth backdrop is set up and work with the “Vanna White” volunteer to make sure signs are in the correct order.
  • Make sure enough seats are reserved for students in center bleachers.
  • Make sure signage is available for handicapped seating and overflow seating
  • Have VIP seating for board members, donors and dignitaries.
  • Work with volunteers to check in presentation award winners
  • Figure out how to have students line up, process in and be seated in 3 minutes.

Field Trip Chairperson – Open

  • Greet all busses and groups
  • Present busses with written instructions for parking and pickup
  • Get on the bus and instruct the students as to the process for the day’s events.
  • Create packets for teachers
  • Document who came when and how long they stayed.
  • Be cheery and an excellent representative/voice for the Fair.

Quartermaster – Open

  • Work with a group of volunteers to haul over all supplies for the Fair.
  • Oversee all setup and tear down procedures
  • Be available periodically throughout the Fair to repair broken things.
  • Oversee all packing of the storage units to ensure items will be in excellent shape for next year and are stored in the proper places.

Signage Chairperson – Open

  • In charge of all signage placement, movement and storage of signs.
  • Work with three signage makers to have appropriate signs made before the Fair.
  • Be at the Fair or have a trusted volunteer who has explicit instructions of how/where/when signage needs to be changed.
  • Invent new signage that would help inform visitors of events/ locations/ directions/ etc.

Last Updated: January 10, 2011

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