Long Island ACT-SO is always looking for Volunteers

Student Mentor / Coaches

The Mentor serves as a role model, critic and coach for his or her students as they develop their projects. With the help of their coach/mentor, who is an accomplished professional, students choose an individual project. This relationship becomes one of the most important rewards for the time and energy a student puts into the program. The Saturday Enrichment Workshops are the core of the program, offering time each week for a student to make an investment in his/her own academic or artistic success.

Volunteers

ACT-SO prides itself as being an all volunteer program. Our volunteers play a critical role in ACT-SO as they assist in a wide range of various tasks during the year. None of the successes and achievements would have been possible without their continued support week after week and the unbounding generosity of their time and energies. During the interaction between volunteer and student, the latter begins to develop the confidence and professionalism that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. If we believe that the youth are our future, then what better way to insure that the future is full of promise than to invest our time in today’s youth. A very special thank you to our volunteers who return year after year to serve as judges, coaches/mentors, site coordinators ,chaperones and a host of other activities.

Competition Room Facilitator

This position requires an individual who is assertive, organized, and possesses leadership, customer service, communication and problem solving skills. The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

Managing and overseeing activities in respective competition category, Hosting participants, judges, and observers, Maintaining crowd control, Communicating judging procedures to audience, Communicating procedures and special instructions to contestants before judging, Preparing contestants music for competition, Keeping and reporting contestant time to judges, Assuring that judges’ needs are met (i.e. copies, pencils, water, etc.), Collecting judge score sheets during breaks and at the end of the competition, Compiling, sort and prepare student evaluations for distribution
 

Performing such other duties that may be requested by the ACT-SO Chairperson

In addition, the room facilitator should open the competition by introducing the judges and stating the rules for managing the competition room. The room facilitator should also call students’ competition numbers. If a number is called for a student competing in another category, you should return to them after the last contestant if they miss their place.

The room facilitator should keep time for each contestant in a timed category (i.e. oratory, music vocal/classical, etc.).

We ask that you remain until the competition for your category is over.

Interested in Becoming a Volunteer?

Competition Door Monitor

The door monitor must be assertive, organized, and possess good customer service and communication skills. The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Managing traffic in and out of competition site, Communicating plan for managing traffic, in and out of the room, to the audience, Maintaining crowd and noise control, Posting contestant numbers during competition, Assisting Room Facilitators in meeting the judges needs (i.e. water, copies, pencils, etc.), Assisting Room facilitators in collecting judges’ scores sheets and preparing student evaluations for distribution
 

Performing such other related duties that may be requested by the Room Facilitator or ACT-SO Chairperson

In addition, the door monitor should not permit anyone to enter or exit the room while a student is performing or meeting with the judges for a personal interview. They must also maintain crowd and noise control.

We ask that you remain until the competition for your category is over.