2026 Seminar Essentials

This section contains everything you need to be successful throughout the weekend. 

This page has overarching information you may need across every day of the seminar...

💬 Links to the feedback form [used for nightly reflections, support requests, and general feedback]

📲 Links to join Slack [...but you should be there already 😉]

⛓️ Diagram of the at seminar Chain of Command

The categories are addressed in the above-linked subpages:

🧳 Volunteer Arrival Information: directions, packing lists, volunteer check-in process, Thursday night trainings

🗓️ Flat Sheets: high-level daily schedules 

📋 Reference Materials: saved repository of resources from the Volunteer Resource Center and other sources [regarding cheers, energizers, ice breakers, facilitation activities, and more!]

Help us help YOU! 

Here at HOBY, "everybody loves everybody", but to have an efficient seminar, we need to follow a chain of command. 

Your first contact is almost always your team lead and/or the director you report to. They'll know the answers to questions you will have about your role.

For example, if you have a question about math homework, you'll ask your math teacher, not the school principal. On that note, you wouldn't ask...:

• ...the Director of Staff what materials you need set up for HOBY Olympics.

• ...the Director of Operations about your ambassador's allergies.

• ... the LSC about your missing room key.

This isn't because we don't want to talk to you - one of the best parts of HOBY is connecting as a volunteer staff! But, we need to streamline our questions to the appropriate people. If they do not know, they can escalate your concerns further to find your answer.