| HOBY 2012 will be June 1-3, 2012 @ Northwood University, Midland, MI |
As soon as possible since space is limited. The guaranteed acceptance date is December 2, 2011. Registrations filed online after December 2nd will be accepted on a space-available basis.
School personnel should send an email to registration@hoby.org with the subject line “School ID Request” containing the following information:
No, paper registrations will not be accepted. Please use the online process. Contact our Director of Recruitment for assistance with online registration if you have difficulty.
No. You may choose to pay the registration fee at a later time. When you are ready to pay, simply log back in with your School ID and password and complete the payment process. Please note that a student is not officially accepted into the program until the registration fee is received.
A valid email address for the student is very important because pre-seminar materials and confirmation of acceptance will be sent through email. If your student does not have an email address, please ask them to provide a parent’s email address to ensure information about the seminar will be received.
There is a nominal fee to register a student to attend our three-day leadership seminar, but the benefits the student receive far out-weigh the cost to attend. The registration fee for the first student from each school is $150. The registration fee for each additional student is $325.
Why are the registration fees different?
The actual cost for any student to attend HOBY is $325. Michigan HOBY volunteers do a lot of fundraising to help subsidize the cost of the first student sent from each school, allowing us to charge $150 for that student. Since we have limited fundraising abilities, we do charge the full $325 for each additional student.
The school is asked to pay the fee. If the school is not able to pay the fee, please consider Booster/Activity clubs, PTA, or other creative options in your community for sponsorship. If you need help reaching out to these groups or others, please contact the Cooperating Organizations Liason on our Corporate Board. Finally, parents of the selected student can elect to pay the fee.
No refunds will be issued, so we strongly recommend selecting an alternate student.
The 2012 Michigan HOBY Seminar is Friday morning-Sunday afternoon, June 1-3, 2012, at Northwood University in Midland, MI.
HOBY begins with check-in early Friday morning (~8-10am) and ends Sunday afternoon (~4pm). Students must attend the entire Seminar (beginning with check-in Friday morning through the Closing Ceremony Sunday afternoon.)
NOTE: Please look ahead with your student at sporting event and final exams schededules, graduation events, etc., that might conflict with HOBY. If there are conflicts, please work with your student, teachers, and/or coaches to adjust those schedules.
Your student will receive an email confirmation stating he/she has been officially accepted into the program. Within six-eight weeks of the Michigan HOBY Seminar, your HOBY Ambassador will receive pre-seminar materials containing more detailed information (such as where to go, time of arrival and departure, and local confirmation information). If materials are not received within this time frame, please contact our Director of Recruitment. Full details will be posted on our Seminar Details & Forms page.
HOBY highly recommends selecting an alternate student and submitting him/her online is case the originally selected student is unable to attend. If your selected HOBY Ambassador is unable to attend, and an alternate student is already submitted online, simply log back in to the online system and follow the instructions to replace the primary student with the alternate. If an alternate student was not initially selected and submitted online, please log back in to the online registration system with your HOBY School ID and password, and then submit an alternate student and replace your primary HOBY Ambassador. Follow the instructions online. You can login here.
Yes. You can register up to two students, plus one alternate. If you would like to register more than two students, please contact our Director of Recruitment for additional details.
Download and display our HOBY posters both in letter size and poster size.
