Youth Program

The ESRI Education User Conference is a professional conference, so there are guidelines for all attendees. ESRI encourages youths to attend the conference as well, but their status calls for particular rules and procedures.

• The conference registration fee is $150 for adults and for youths.
• Youths must be at least 14 years old as of August 2, 2008.
• A group consists of a minimum of two youths and at least one adult and represents a formally recognized educational organization (a local school, 4-H club, Girl Scout Troop, etc.).
• Youths must be members of an educational and youth-serving organization to participate.
• A group may have a maximum of two youths per adult.
• Adult group members must be registered for EdUC by normal process.
• Registration forms must be submitted for all youths.

Parties interested in bringing youths aged 14–18 to EdUC 2008 need to send an attendance request by e-mail to k12-lib@esri.com. The request should include these items:

• Name and type of sponsoring organization (e.g., Lincoln High School, Jones County 4-H)
• Name, address, phone, and e-mail of requester
• Total number of chaperones
• Total number of youths
• Ages and genders of expected youths
• Why the group wants to attend EdUC (up to 250 words; include what the group has done with GIS and how the group expects to use information gathered from attending a professional conference)

The EdUC team will evaluate the request. Those whose requests are approved will receive by e-mail a set of registration forms to submit by the regular ESRI UC registration deadline.

Send any questions to k12-lib@esri.com.