Hello from the NSCS Convention Live!

Hello, my name is Sara Boyer and I am the graphic designer at NSCS. The NSCS Convention has been a wonderful event we would love to share with you. Check out pictures from the events below.

This was our opening speaker for the Summit on Wednesday Night, Ralph Johnson, Outgoing Chair on NSCS’ Board of Directors and Associate Dean of Students at John Hopkins University.

These are some of the lovely ladies from the National Leadership Council, Courtney Butts, Sue Blue, Jessica Vega.

This is a great picture of the full NLC from last night’s summit kick off.

This is Justin Riggs presenting a workshop this morning called Boosting Chapter Involvement and Making 2008 the Best Year Yet. The presentation was all about how chapter officers need to set goals and mind sets for their chapters to be successful.

Also the NSCS Scholar Store and Exhibit Hall Opened today. Check out some of the great set ups and opportunities our Sponsors and Exhibitors have brought for our members.

Check back for more updates and more information on how this wonderful event is unfolding.

Exhibitors, exhibitors, exhibitors

As you probably know by now, the Convention features a lot of really interesting speakers (an astronaut, an entrepreneur, and a deputy mayor among many others) AND some really cool workshops (getting into grad school, breaking into the entertainment field etc).

But one of the most important pieces to this entire Convention is the exhibitors. Thanks to Lindsay, we have a plethora– from grad school partners to employers, in several different fields. So regardless of whether you’re interested in accounting or English, or grad school or a job, you’ll find something here. The Exhibit Hall is open on Thursday afternoon, all day Friday and Saturday. I already know someone who got a job offer when she went to the Exhibit Hall, so it seems to be working for a lot of people.

In addition to that, we also have a mail “center” outside the Exhibit Hall. It’s just a series of folders with attendees’ names on it. If the recruiters/ employers want to get in touch with someone, they leave a message in those folders.

CareerTV and more

This morning I met with the folks from CareerTV. They’re at the Convention to film footage for their website and they are going to do video resumes for some members at the Convention. Look for those resumes on their website.

This afternoon Jim and I will be blogging about the workshops, as well as the Convention reception.

Coming up…

From Thursday through Saturday, Jim Duncan and I will be blogging the workshops and speaker events. We may not be able to post it live because wireless internet access is limited in the workshop rooms. Still, be sure to check back for updates. They will be a lot more regular, because we’ll have more to post about than my inadequacy at registration.

More from registration day

The focus today was on registration– getting everyone settled in before tomorrow’s chapter improvements/ benefits workshops, and Friday’s careers/college speakers and workshops. I’ve seen some of the work that Shanna and others have put in to these presentations, so those of you who are at the Summit (or will be following it online) will learn a great deal.

So far today I only worked for an hour at the registration table, what with being busy writing speaker bios, editing STAR status materials and helping Sara (our graphics editor) with website updates.

The registration desk has an interesting system. When people come up, we check them off the list, give them a name tag, hand them a T-shirt, give them a program guide and remind them about the community service project. Sounds straightforward, right? It’s amazing then that it takes me 10 seconds longer than I anticipated to find someone’s name tag. Sure they’re alphabetical. But apparently my brain sometimes forgets that the letter h precedes the letter o. So far everyone has been pleasant about it. We’ll see how they react when I’m at the registration desk from 6:45pm-8pm– which is toward the tail end of registration.