Volunteer!
We have plenty of volunteer opportunities at OctopodiCon 2012. For adults (over 18 or graduated high school) each 4 hours of volunteer work, you can earn a 1 day pass to OctopodiCon 2012. 12 hours of volunteer work equals a 3 day scholarship. Volunteer hours can be earned before and after OctopodiCon as well as during.
For high school students, volunteering at OctopdiCon 2012 counts as Community Service Hours. High school students can earn a 3 day scholarship with 8 hours of volunteer work.
Positions available:
Pre-convention Volunteer Opportunities
Teas: setting up, helping during the Tea, cleaning up
Photo Shoots
Marketing
Room Teas at other conventions
distributing bookmarks and flyers
Pre-Registration – preparing packets
Pre-registration – filling the makeshop supply kits
Selling ads for website, flyers, posters, and conventions books (student handbook, Course Schedules, Spectacularium Programming Guide, Pocket Guide)
Museum Gallery Set up
At OctopodiCon:
Registration:
handing out the pre-reg packets at the convention
Taking walk-in registrations
making badges
answering questions
Con-Ops: Gofer
Art Gallery:
Bag checker
Set up
Sales
clean-up
Badge Checker
Mercantile Lane:
Set up
ConVenience Store Set Up
ConVenience Store Sales
ConVenience Store Take Down
Merchant Break Relief
Badge Checker
Break Down
Scriptorium:
Set up
Book and Print Sales
Break-down
Badge checker
Panel Rooms:
Set up
Badge checkers
Water checkers
Sound and equipment checkers
Time checkers
Break down
Mysterium:
Set up
Badge checkers
Game supervisors
Sound and Equipment Checkers
Water Checkers
Gofers
Time checkers
Break down
Laboratorium:
Set up
Badge checkers
Time checkers
Gofers
Water Checkers
Sound and Equipment checkers
Break Down
Spectacularium:
Set up
Sound and Equipment checkers
Water Checkers
Gofers
Time C heckers
Badge checkers
Break down
Promenade:
Traffic flow
Gofer
Water checkers
Airship table checkers
Equipment checkers
Tea Parlor:
Set up
Servers
Table bussers
Tea makers
Cashier
Gofers
Break Down
Professor’s Lounge:
Set up
Badge checkers
Ice Checkers
Water checkers
Beverage checkers
Gofers
Clean up
Break down
Security:
Set up
Badge checker supervisor
Visiting Professor assistants
Peace keepers
Weapons inspectors
Tallyman (keeps Pod Points for Pod Contest)
Pod Heads (gives points for Pod Contest)
Course Credit Checker
