Rockville Campus
51 Mannakee Street
Rockville, MD 20850

Germantown Campus
20200 Observation Drive
Germantown, MD 20876

Takoma Park Campus
7600 Takoma Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912

How to Get Involved

Look below for ways students, faculty, and other members of the college
community can get involved.

STUDENTS
Submit a paper. Look over the research writing that you have done or are doing for your courses. Is there an excellent paper, one that involves original thought, research, and good writing? Is there a faculty member with whom you would like to work to revise the paper or do research that might turn into a paper to submit to Beacon? If so, talk to the faculty mentor, read the information on this web site and get six copies of your paper ready to submit before March 1. Click here for the Beacon Information flyer and paper cover sheet.
See section "Frequently Asked Questions-Students."

Attend the conference. If you do not have a paper for this year, but might consider submitting one for next year, come to the Beacon 2005 conference and see what your peers are doing.

Volunteer. If you are a student at the host campus, you can get involved by volunteering to post signs, greet attendees, direct visitors around campus, register presenters, etc. Volunteers will receive meals, a Beacon T-shirt, and a certificate of appreciation. Contact the conference co-directors if you want to volunteer.

Faculty and other members of the Beacon (college) community-
Promote Beacon in your classes and around campus. Give assignments that encourage papers that could be submitted to Beacon. Talk about Beacon to your classes (or invite one of the co-directors to come in and talk to them). Click here for the Beacon Information flyer and paper cover sheet. Make sure there are posters in classrooms and bulletin boards (contact the conference co-directors if you need more).

Be a mentor. Identify students who should submit papers to the Beacon conference and encourage them to submit their work. This is a great opportunity to get to know students better and to promote their learning and success. Click here to learn more about how to be a mentor. See section "How to be a Mentor for the Beacon Conference."

Be a reader. Faculty volunteers read papers submitted in their areas of expertise and rank them to help choose those papers that will be presented at the conference. Contact the co-directors for more information or fill out a Beacon reader form and send it in.

Be a moderator. On the conference day (June 3, 2005) the host campus needs a moderator for each of the panels. Moderators are selected from host campus faculty. A moderator's responsibilities include greeting the audience, introducing the presenters and judge, and making sure the presentations run smoothly and on time. To volunteer, contact the conference co-directors.

Volunteer. Volunteers are needed to help post signs, greet attendees, register participants, take pictures, etc. Volunteers receive meals, a Beacon T-shirt, and a certificate of appreciation.

Attend the conference. Listen to student scholars present the results of their research on wide range of topics.

Other two-year colleges interested in Beacon.
Colleges can get involved in Beacon by encouraging faculty and students to participate and by becoming Beacon sponsors. Sponsoring college membership is $500, and platinum membership is $1000. These monies help cover the costs of the conference. Appointed faculty from sponsoring colleges serve as members of the Beacon steering committee.

For more information see section "Frequently Asked Questions-Faculty."