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As Future Health Professionals, HOSA members should present themselves in a professional manner for all recorded video presentations and / or live events as part of the Regional Competitive Event; however, dress code bonus points will not be awarded this year. Find the Florida HOSA Dress Code Policy here.

Participant safety is a top priority for HOSA. A video and virtual conferencing platform may be used to conduct some of HOSA Virtual Regional Competitive Event competitions.

A number of restrictions will be used to protect participants in the platform.

• Every individual competition room used will have a unique passcode. That passcode will only be made available to judges and participants in that round.

• The ability to use virtual backgrounds will be turned off.

• The ability to share screens and file share through the chat will be turned off.

• Waiting Room features will be turned on for all events, so only authorized competitors and staff will be granted access.

• The Private Chat feature will be disabled to prevent communication that event moderators cannot see.

• All judges and competitors will be given a strict naming process that must be used in each event (e.g., Competitor - Suzy Smith) so that all persons may be easily identified.

• Finally, conference staff and competitive event volunteers will be monitoring all video conferencing meeting rooms during competition. They will quickly remove anyone violating competition policy.