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Student-to-Student Conference 2010 - CAG Santa Lucia Region 5, CAG, California Association for the Gifted, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties, Region 5

Second Annual Student-to-Student Conference
Saturday May 8, 2010  ~  1:00–5:00 pm
Merill College, UC Santa Cruz

Students present workshops on their favorite subjects; other students attend these workshops! Open to all students grades 3–12 in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito and San Mateo Counties. You do not need to be a GATE-identified student in order to attend the conference, or to present a workshop. Everyone is welcome!

Students grades 3–12 (and their parents/guardians) are invited to attend a conference by and for students. The conference is open to ALL students from throughout the region: Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Monterey and San Benito Counties. You do not need to be a GATE-identified student in order to attend the conference, or to present a workshop. Everyone is welcome!

At the conference, students will offer a wide variety of 25-minute workshops and presentations to other students. Much like an adult professional conference, students will receive a program that lists the various presentations and workshops, and can choose to attend up to six sessions.

Three Ways to Participate:

NEWS FLASH! April 28: We have over 150 students registered for the conference—and around 25 workshop presentations! At this point, we have closed registration for more students to participate! We are very sorry to have to close registration, but we are very excited that there is so much interest in the conference!

Please read the rest of this page, for more information about the conference!

2010 CAG SLR5 Student-to-Student Conference Flier – English Printable Conference Flier, in English (148 KB Adobe Reader icon .pdf) and español (149 KB Adobe Reader icon .pdf). 2010 CAG SLR5 Student-to-Student Conference Flier – español

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Location:

This TOTALLY FREE event will be held at Merrill College on the breathtakingly beautiful campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Comprising 2,000 acres of the former Cowell Ranch, the UCSC campus includes rolling meadows and forests of redwoods, oak and madrone, with sweeping views of the Monterey Bay and Pacific Ocean. Student and parent workshops will be held in the classrooms of Merrill and Crown Colleges. Free parking is available, and conference attendees can grab lunch (before the conference) or dinner (after the conference) at Tacos Morenos (voted Best Taqueria of Santa Cruz) at Merrill College, or at the University Dining Hall at Cowell-Stevenson Colleges, a few minutes walk from Merrill. (Several campus maps are available online.)

Sorry, campus tours are full—including a long waiting list! Students and their families are invited to take a FREE tour of the campus before the conference. The walking tour, hosted by UCSC students and staff, will start and end at Merrill College, and will involve walking approximately 1½ miles—including up and down some hills—during a 90-minute tour. The tour will depart from Merrill College at 10:30 am, returning to Merrill around 12:00 noon, leaving time for lunch before the conference begins at 1:00 pm. With apologies to our younger students, UCSC staff tell us the tour is open only to students grades 6–12, and their families. Please make sure to indicate your interest in taking the tour when you register for the conference, so that UCSC staff can plan accordingly. Hurry, limited space available!

The conference program will begin at 1:00 pm sharp! Please plan on arriving by 12:30 (10:15 if you want to take the tour)to park and sign in, so that we can begin on time.

New This Year: Parent Workshops! There will be two or more parent workshop offereings, including:

The parent workshops will be one hour long each; there will be three parent workshop sessions during the 4-hour conference. Spanish translation and free childcare will be provided. Please make sure to indicate your need for translation and/or childcare when you register for the conference!

More About Presenting a Workshop:

Students wishing to offer a workshop, performance or other presentation are asked to submit their proposal to us no later than Friday April 9. The registration form has a place for your presentation’s title and a brief description (500 characters max = around 100 words). You can also let us know that you want to present, but will send us your presentation information later. If you do this, make sure we get your workshop info by April 16, or you may not be able to present. And if we get more presentation proposals than we have room for in the schedule, it may be “first come-first served,” so don’t wait too long!

The conference will include six workshop sessions of 25 minutes each. We ask that each student present their workshop at least twice in a row. This will give more students a chance to see your presentation, and it will give you a chance to hone your presentation, learning from the first presentation and making it even better the second time. (Ask any middle or high school teacher about this…) Students who want to present more than twice can request to present 3 or 4 times; we will accomodate such requests as the schedule allows. Either way, students who present will still have an opportunity to also attend other students’ presentations, during the sessions when they are not presenting themselves.

NOTE: A parent, guardian or other adult (21 years or older) must be in the room while you are presenting!

Coming Soon: Helpful Tips for Giving Great Presentations!

Workshops can be about almost anything, topics you’ve learned about inside or outside of school, including but not limited to: