Educators and Community Leaders

Dear Administrators, Teachers, Staff and Community Leaders:

Registration for the 2024 Iowa HOBY Seminar is now open!  Thank you for supporting Iowa Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership and for giving your student an opportunity to attend the Iowa HOBY Leadership Seminar.  As an educator or community leader, you have the privilege of selecting or nominating an ambassador to represent your school or community.  We encourage you to make this selection early so that we may best serve your and your student’s needs before and at the Iowa HOBY Seminar.

Please take advantage of the Iowa HOBY volunteers here to help you: Rachel Paine-Caufield, our Corporate Board President, and Dylan Keller, 2024 Leadership Seminar Chair.  Our goal at Iowa HOBY is to empower young people to grow in personal and group leadership and to find ways to offer more to the community around them.

Sincerely,

Rachel Paine Caufield
Corporate Board President

Register Students

  • Register your selected student.
  • Pay his/her 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.
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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.

Registering More than One Ambassador from Your School

Iowa HOBY is allowing schools the option of sending up to five ambassadors to the Iowa HOBY seminar. Fees required to send each ambassador includes the National Registration Fee of $265 until December 8th. 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 local cost of the seminar for the primary student is paid for with funds raised by Iowa HOBY volunteers from cooperating organizations, grants, private and corporate donations. Any other students registered after Dec 8th will have local costs included as well.

Before December 8th- Early-bird Pricing:

  • Each student registered before December 8, 2023 will qualify for discounted pricing of $265! (regardless if another ambassador from that school has already been registered)

After December 8th- Standard Pricing:

  • Fees for any student registered after December 8, 2023 will be $330 for our 3-day seminar!

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.

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. See our Grants and Resources for Service Learning for non-HOBY planning and financial resources for any young person to use.
Fundraising Resources

We understand that the fees associated with Iowa HOBY can be a challenge for some schools to provide. If you have questions regarding fundraising materials and resources in your community, please email Colleen Gannon or Ali Watkins, 2023 Recruitment Team, at recruitment@iahoby.org or Shana Smrcina and Dylan Keller, our 2023 Leadership Seminar Co-Chairs, at lsc@iahoby.org.

Iowa HOBY hopes to raise 65-70 percent 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.

Iowa HOBY offers a limited number of scholarships to eligible students. If your student is eligible, please reach out to Iowa HOBY for more information.

Thank you for supporting Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership and for giving your student an opportunity to attend the HOBY Leadership Seminar.