Thank you for volunteering to help put on an event. Without volunteers, it would be impossible to hold orienteering events. WPOC is a non-profit organization and has no employees; so the only way we can compensate people who volunteer to help is to waive the map fee for them at the event where they volunteer. To the right of the form below, you can see a description of the tasks that need to be performed at an event. The reference to the Start/Registration window is to the 3-hour period during which event participants can check-in, register, and start on courses. This window is either 11 am to 2 pm DST or 10 am to 1 pm EST. You can also see that we do the tasks in two shifts. This allows all volunteers to go out on a course either before or after doing a task for one shift or after instruction or before control pick-up.

After you fill out the form and click the Volunteer button, e-mail will be sent to Ryan, the WPOC Volunteer Coordinator, telling him what you volunteered for; a similar e-mail will be sent to you as confirmation of your volunteering. At some point before the event, Ryan will get back to you via e-mail regarding your assignment.

* required field. WPOC Events: Event ListLaurel Ridge Ski Area, 21 Jan Deer Lakes Park, 07 Apr Keystone State Park, 11 May Yellow Creek South, 15 Sep Heritage Reservation, 29 Sep Hartwood Acres, 20 Oct Laurel Hill State Park, 27 Oct South Park, 10 Nov First Name: *   Last Name: * Email address: * Shift (Explanation at the Right, under Registration) First Second Either Neither Both * Preferred Tasks (Explanations at the Right) The Volunteer Coordinator may need to switch people between Registration and Start/Finish Registration Start/Finish Either Instruction No Preference * In addition to (or instead of) the above tasks, will you help with control pick-up? Yes No *      OR    Start Over    OR   Return to WPOC Welcome Page Look for an acknowledgement here after clicking Volunteer. If you do not see one, there is an error above that needs to be addressed.

Task Descriptions Registration: This involves: Greeting the participants. Asking if they have orienteered before, if they are preregistered, if any minors are with them, if they are members. Getting non-member participants to sign a waiver. Collecting the map fee. Determining which course they want. Handing out maps and possibly control descriptions and legends. Directing them to the Start/Finish table. The two shifts for Registration go from about 15 minutes before the Start/Registration window to the middle of the window and from 15 minutes before the middle of the window to the end of the window. Start/Finish: This involves: Giving participants an SI-card (fingerstick). Loaning them a compass if they need one. Making sure they are recorded in the computer in the correct course and with the correct SI-card number. Showing them how to use the SI-card if they do not know. Making sure they Clear and Check the SI-card. Asking if they need instruction - if so, sending them to the instructor; otherwise, making sure they know where the Finish is and sending them to the Start. The two shifts for Start/Finish use the same time frame as for Registration. Instruction: Teach beginners how to do the basics of orienteering: map reading, orienting the map, terrain association by following the lesson-plan/outline for instruction. This is done during the first hour of the Start/Registration window only. Control Pick-up: Retrieve the control flags and boxes from the courses used that day. The controls are divided by areas so that you will be picking up controls from various different skill-levels of courses. Pick-up normally begins 1 1/2 to 2 hours after the Start/Registration window ends or immediately after the last person finishes, whichever comes first.