INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
What to Bring: SSSAS assumes that you will bring the necessary emergency/medical information for each participant from your school. Each conference participant should bring a reusable water bottle, pen, and paper, as these will not be provided at the conference.
Shuttle Bus: Did your school sign-up for the shuttle bus that runs between the King Street Metro Station and SSSAS? If so, the SAINTS bus will pick you up at the metro station at 8:00am sharp on Monday. The shuttle will leave SSSAS at 1:15pm sharp to return you to the metro station.
Directions: The S4S conference will take place entirely at our Upper School campus at 1000 St. Stephen’s Rd. in Alexandria, Virginia. Directions to the Upper School campus of St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School can be found on our website, www.sssas.org. When you arrive on campus, we will direct you to parking and the location for registration.
Registration: Day of registration begins at 8:00am on Monday morning in our Chapel / Performing Arts Center (C/PAC). The contact person for your school should check-in at the registration table, while all other participants should create name tags for themselves. At registration, you will pick up a tote bag for each participant. If someone from your school is leading a breakout session during Round I, that person will be asked to go with a ‘Saint’ to check the set-up for your session. If someone from your school is leading a breakout session during Round II, that person will check the set-up during the 15 minutes between Round I and Round II.
Breakout Session Sign-Up: The contact person at each school has received a list of the breakout sessions offered. When you arrive on Monday morning, each participant will select the 2 sessions he/she would like to attend. If a session is already full, he/she will need to select a different one. The closer to 8:00am your school arrives, the more likely it will be to get into the sessions you want! Session leaders do NOT need to sign-up for their own sessions. We encourage you to “spread out” amongst the many breakout session offerings, in order to maximize the benefits of the conference that you can take back to your schools.
Recording: Much of the conference will be recorded for use on our school website, the conference website, and in various print media. Please make sure all participants from your school are aware of this. If any participant from your school does NOT wish to be included in video, please let me know immediately.
Getting around SSSAS: There will be many ‘Saints’ available to help you find where you need to go over the course of the day. Just look for students or adults wearing red ‘Saints’ shirts!
General Schedule:
8:00am: Registration, sign up for breakout sessions, snack, short film showing in the auditorium
9:00am: Keynote Address by Spencer Wells geograhper, population geneticist, and explorer-in-residance at National Geographic
10:15am: Round I of breakout sessions
11:15am: Round II of breakout sessions
12:00pm: Lunch
12:45pm: Drawing for door prizes
1:00pm: Conference ends |