Thank you for volunteering! Commencement would not be possible without the involvement and support of Georgia Tech faculty and staff.
Be a Graduation Celebration Volunteer!
Join the volunteer team to assist with this semester’s ceremony, and help make this achievement wonderful and memorable for our new alumni. We have a number of ways you can pitch in:
- General Volunteer: Available to help where needed, when it’s needed during the ceremony.
- Field Movement Management: Guides students to and from their seats and the stage during the ceremony. This volunteer shift is about two and a half hours long.
- Interior and Exterior Guest Services: Provide exceptional customer service to guests, including guiding them to their seats.
- Graduate Entrance Directional Assistance: Help manage graduate line traffic, ensuring each graduate is wearing the correct regalia and has their GradPass.
- Graduate Seating Assistance: Assist students in finding their seats, and make sure they are seated when the ceremony begins.
- Seating Assistance: Guide guests requiring accessible accommodations to their seats in the appropriate assigned sections.
- Volunteer Room Assistance: Assist volunteers with headsets, answer questions, etc., and prepare the room for the next ceremony.
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CoC Graduation Celebration Volunteer Information
Volunteer Parking:
- Saturday volunteers can park in the Visitor Area 1 (Burge Parking Deck) or Wardlaw Center (TBD)
- Wardlaw parking deck passes will be sent.
- Volunteers should print out the parking pass and place it on their car’s dashboard while at their shift.
- Contact person for the day: Sharon Hamilton – 404-484-7620
Volunteer Report times and location:
- Volunteers will report to the Student Success Center President’s Suite C and D.
- Report times:
- Breakfast will start at 8:30 am
- Volunteer Room – 9:00 am
- Volunteers will report to designated locations by 10:00 am
What to wear:
- Black business casual pants
- Georgia Tech sweatshirts will be provided
- Comfortable shoes
- Lanyard will be provided and must always be visible – “Ask Me, I’m a Volunteer”
- Dress for weather conditions on the day – Commencement happens rain or shine
Volunteer Roles:
Graduate Guest Services
- Locations: Bobby Dodd Field along the path graduates will take to the stage)
- Line Management (Guide students from their seats, on and off stage, back to their seats)
- Field Movement Management (help manage graduate line traffic)
- Ensure graduates have correct regalia and GradPass
Guest Services
- Locations: Concourses near Gates
- Help point guests to the appropriate locations
- Provide exceptional services to guest by answering questions
Volunteer Room
- Locations: 8 AM – 10:30 AM, Student Success Center, President’s Suite
Then shift to one of the Guest Services Sections
Help all volunteers get ready for their assigned shift
Time Management
Assist with the distribution of radios
Oversee catering preparation
Stage Crew Assistants
- Locations: Behind Stage Right and Stage Left
- Ensure all VIPs (Dean, Chairs/ADs, Speakers) have everything they need – know where to enter the stage, seating, RoS
- Point of Contact for AV Services
- Ensure Run of Show is onstage and followed