To sign up for the College Bowl you must first register for the HENAAC Conference and select the box indicating your request to participate, �College Bowl Requested.� To be selected, you must upload your resume as this will be used during the competition. You must also be available to check in on Thursday, October 6th in the evening. If selected to participate, you will be notified via email.

Unfortunately, due to the intensity and long duration of the College Bowl, students will not have the opportunity to attend the seminars and other events held on the evening of Thursday and all day Friday. However, you will still be able to attend the Welcome Reception on Thursday, Awards Show Friday evening and all Saturday events. Students in the College Bowl cannot participate in the Protégé Mentorship Program.

The College Bowl provides a fun, creative opportunity to showcase your true skills and talents beyond the typical resume profile and work side by side with industry recruiters and professionals. The environment provides the right set of circumstances to network and be mentored by professionals as they will coach you through a series of challenges. You will also gain intimate knowledge of the work environments, career paths and hiring processes of the participating technology leaders. You will be part of an environment where students can freely discus, interact with corporate representatives on sensitive topics such as professional skills necessary for success in the workplace.

The last day to sign up for the College Bowl is September 12, 2011. Anyone who signs up after this date may be put on a waiting list.

Yes, please upload your resume as this will be used in one of the challenges. Upload your resume by logging in to your conference student registration account.P>

No, students may not form their own teams. Company representatives chose their teams which are formed utilizing a “draft-style” format. Students must actively market themselves and be invited to be on a particular team. After this initial round of interaction, all coaches face off in a round-robin draft selection process, each selecting their top choices for their team.

While any student can participate in the College Bowl, it is highly recommended for sophomores and juniors.

You may participate in the College Bowl again; however, we highly recommend sharing the opportunity with other students from your campus.

• Be the motivator and leader to a team of ten students and guide them through the competitions
• Serve as an expert on professional and leadership development topics associated with the competitions by relating your own personal experiences
• Establish a warm, caring mentor relationship with the ten students
• Teach your students the importance of teamwork, ethics, and leadership throughout the two-day event

As an assistant coach, you will be helping the coach deliver in his/her role as a motivator, leader and mentor to the team.

As a judge, you will be scoring each round of competitions along with other judges. You will be assigned to one of the auditoriums to judge the work of some of the teams as they progress through the competitions. You will be provided with score sheets with guidelines and will need to be consistent with your scoring throughout the entire event. It is also very important that you are available to score all of the rounds of competitions.

You will not be able to see your own team compete during the College Bowl. The reason for this is that we need to ensure no one team has an advantage over any other.

You will only be able to participate in HENAAC activities that do not conflict with the required time periods for the College Bowl. You will receive a program with a schedule of the College Bowl events at a later date.

We recommend that you bring the following items:

• Company Banners / Table cloth to dress up your “station” during the draft selection process
• Giveaways for about 300 students during the draft process
• Company logo shirts a must for all team members –enough to outfit a ten person team for two days
• Other company gear for the students – caps, t-shirts, etc.
• Camera to take pictures of your team
• Laptop for working with the students during the Resume Competition

Yes you will. You will be working with students on their resumes. We will provide you with an electronic copy of their resume as a starting point. So we highly encourage you to bring a laptop to the College Bowl for this competition or to make arrangements to have access to a computer during this time.

Note: HENAAC will be providing a computer room for use during the competition, but it gets very congested due to the large number of students in the College Bowl using them at once.

Throughout the College Bowl competitions, we will all see students and industry representatives come out of their “shells” and blossom into fun, energetic participants. Special awards will be presented at the Student Leadership Luncheon.

Over the years we have seen that successful teams are those where:

• the students and the coaches quickly form a bond;
• coaches understand their mentoring and motivator roles;
• the students enjoy working with each other (team building);
• team quickly develops its own identity;
• students feel comfortable in the team and step up into leadership roles; and
• students focus on having fun, tasks at hand and doing their best and not worry about competitions.