For
Educators
Dear Administrators,
Teachers and Staff:
Registration for the 2012 Iowa HOBY Seminar
is now open! Thank you for supporting Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership
and for giving your student an opportunity to attend the HOBY Leadership Seminar.
As an educator you have the priviledge of selecting an ambassador to represent your
school. We encourage you to make this selection early so that we may best serve you
and your students needs before and at the Iowa HOBY Seminar. While the benefits are
too abundant to list thoroughly we are pleased to announce that each ambassador who
attended in 2011 received a renewable $10,000 scholarship to
Central College (our host campus.)
Please take advantage of the volunteers
here to help you, Kim Hodge our Director of Recruitment,
Kevin Down our Corporate Board President,
and Rachel Anderson our Leadership Seminar Chair.
Our goal at Iowa HOBY is to empower young people to grow in their personal leadership, group leadership
and to find ways to offer more to the community around them.
Sincerely,
Rachel
Anderson-2012
Iowa HOBY Leadership Seminar Chair
Click
to register online for Iowa HOBY. Our online system
will allow you to:
* Register your selected student
* Pay their registration fee now or at a later date
* Print an invoice for the registration fee
* Enter a Purchase Order number
* Enter Alternate Student information should your first student be unable to
attend
* Make address or contact information changes to your student's registration
Why
Iowa HOBY?
Why
Iowa HOBY? Ask any Iowa HOBY alumni what makes HOBY different
from another leadership conference and you'll get a variety of
answers. Some may say it is the sense of community that an ambassador
feels from the moment they arrive, some may say that it is the
opportunity to interact with business professionals, some may
say it's the broad exposure to a variety of issues young people
and our world today, and some may say the volunteer staff members.
While the number of reasons why Iowa HOBY is far beyond "just
another leadership seminar" are too many to count one key
reason is HOBY's commitment to Leadership for Service. Take some
time to read about this element of the Iowa HOBY program and
why it continues to lift Iowa HOBY far above ordinary and into
extraordinary.
Resources
for youth led service learning projects
The
three day Iowa HOBY Seminar is just the first step of the HOBY
experience. We encourage all HOBY alumni to leave
the seminar with a plan of how to enter their own communities
and make positive change. Click on "Resources
for youth led service learning projects" for non HOBY planning and financial
resources for any young person to use.
Details
on registering more than one ambassador from your school
This
year Iowa HOBY is introducing the option of sending
up to three ambassadors from each school to Iowa HOBY. This
is to
serve
the
interest of some schools wishing to send more than one ambassador.
The first ambassador registered will be referred to during the registration
process as "the primary ambassador." Fees required
to send the primary ambassador (1st student) includes only the
National Registration
Fee of $150. The National Registration Fee covers the cost of
our parent organization including development of program content,
insurance costs, branding and other resources that have allowed
more than 400,000 students nationally to participate in the HOBY
experience. The actual cost of seminar for the primary student
($175) is paid
for with
funds
raised
by Iowa
HOBY volunteers
from cooperating organizations, grants, private and corporate
donations. The
optional
second and third ambassadors are responsible for both the
$150 National Registration Fee and the $175 Seminar Fee (actual
cost of attending the seminar) totalling $325 per student.*
*1
Student $150 (national
registration only, Iowa HOBY fundraises for the cost of attending
the seminar for first student)
*2 Students $325 (national registration for
1st and 2nd students plus cost of attending the seminar for 2nd
student)
*3 Students $800 (national registration for
1st, 2nd and 3rd students plus cost of attending the seminar
for 2nd and 3rd students)
Volunteers
of Iowa HOBY work every day to raise the nearly $35,000 required
to conduct the three day seminar. Thank you for appreciating
the work of our volunteers. Our only fundraising goal is to allow
as many Iowa students to participate in this worthwhile program
as possible.
Fundraising
Resources
Iowa
HOBY costs money, we wish it didn't. Iowa HOBY volunteers
fundraise 10 months out of the year to provide the Iowa HOBY
experience
to as many Iowa sophomores as possible. Unfortunately we are
not able to raise enough funds to cover the $150 national registration
fee for each ambassador. We understand that the fees associated
with Iowa HOBY can be a challenge
for some schools to provide. If
you have questions regarding fund raising materials and resources
in your community please email Rachel
Anderson, 2012 Iowa HOBY Leadership Seminar Chair at lsc@iahoby.org.
Iowa
HOBY hopes to raise 65-70% from Cooperating Organizations. These
are clubs and organizations that are service and community based
and believe in the core values of Iowa HOBY. If you are able
to provide
up
to date contact information for a chapter president and a mailing
or email address we are willing to send a sponsorship request
on your school's behalf.
Read
about Iowa HOBY's Leadership for Service Program
Thank you for supporting Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership and
for giving your student an opportunity to attend the HOBY Leadership
Seminar.
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