M31 is composed of thousands of bodies, but none shine brighter than the celestial host of volunteers that bring Minicon to life. Bring your energy, your light, to M31 in the form of volunteering.
There are many jobs you can sign up for. If you want to help, get a volunteer form by contacting Minicon. Thanks!
Note that Ops and Medical Support, in particular, need advance commitments from volunteers to get training.

If you are local to the Twin Cities, come to a committee meeting and get involved.

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Medical Support Plans Training and Needs Qualified Staff
Minicon's Medical Support department (formerly Life Support) will be offering CPR and First Aid Classes this winter. Tentative dates for CPR classes are January 27 and February 10. Both classes begin at 9 am and are eight-hour classes. For more information, call Linda Paul at (612) 777-6351.
If you are an EMT, First Responder or other Medical Person, and would like to volunteer for shifts during Minicon, send email to ops@minicon31.mnstf.org.

Operations Volunteers: Advance Training Planned
The Operations department is responsible for providing a communications network to facilitate the traffic of critical information between convention departments, services for disbursing necessary information to the attendees, and coordination of emergency and security resources for the Convention.
The one resource that is crucial to Operations' success is volunteers. Operations is working to improve volunteer contact and expand the training we provide our volunteers, therefore we need volunteers willing to commit in advance to Operations.
For detailed questions or suggestions, send email to ops@minicon31.mnstf.org.

Your Chance to be "On the Air"!
Tech Support Services are looking for a few good Fen.
Can you change the tape in a VCR? Load a CD player? Set up a slide projector? We could use your help as a tech librarian.
Can you operate theater style lighting? Operate a video switcher? Operate studio-style cameras? The news tech team needs your help.
Can you wright da gnues beter tehn dis? Read cold copy in front of a crowd? Ask people you don't know questions? You could be a TV reporter.
Can you introduce radio plays and recordings? Read into a mike? Type and spell? Radio Clarabelle wants you.

Gamers Helping Gamers
Volunteers are needed to assist with even distribution of gaming types to tables, maintain decorum and general cleanliness and to monitor usage and return of supplied gaming materials.

Art Show is Labor Intensive
The Art Show will need help on Friday from noon to 10 pm, Saturday 10 am - 5:30 pm, and 11 pm - Midnight, and Sunday 10 am - 3 pm. Some of those hours are check-in and checkout; you could monitor the Print Shop, handle sales of art, and check bags and badges at the door. You could also help set up for the auction Saturday evening, assist the auctioneers with displaying the artwork during the auction, and/or shift artworks back to the Art Show after the Auction.
For detailed questions or suggestions, send email to artshow@minicon31.mnstf.org.

Unique Opportunity: Work on the Emsh Exhibit
The Emsh art retrospective needs room hosts and coat check staff.

Take a Ride on the Bozo Bus Tribune
Minicon publishes a convention newszine (fanspeak for news-oriented fanzine) throughout the weekend. This is a fine old science fiction convention tradition that still works well at informing, updating, and unifying today's diverse attendees.
The Bozo Bus Tribune is looking for associate editors; designers and layout artists who can work with QuarkXPress on a Macintosh; writers, reporters, artists, and proofreaders; and printer's devils (runners and general helpers who will have a chance to learn a bit about desktop publishing).

Convention Services
The Convention Services department covers Information, WHAM! (Waste Handling at Minicon), dockwork, and signage. We need the following volunteers:
Informants help con attendees with questions, handle new information submitted, deal with signage requests, keep track of supplies, assist the Volunteers Department, and answer phone questions.
WHAM! volunteers check & empty the trash containers and recycling bins, remove trash/recyclables to collection locations, and replace can liners. One-hour shifts!

Looking for a Few Good Jerks
DarkStar is a coffee house with live music (two rooms!) and without cigarettes or other combustibles. The only smoke is from our steaming coffee and espresso. (Well, okay, and the puff of smoke Elvis arrives in nightly...) To get there, go to Graceland, take a sharp left, drink three cups of Cafe Latte, click your heels together three times and mutter, "There's no place like DarkStar.." etc. Or, come to Minicon. We need espresso jerks to serve up the caffeine and beanies to provide all manner of support (cleaning, running, etc.) for the jerks.

Support Your Local Costumers
Interested in helping out at the masquerade on Saturday night? We have a number of jobs that need to be filled, from Den Parents and Green Room runners to form talliers. If you are interested in being a Judge, we'll need a short bio with your qualifications.

Consuite Needs People, Too!
The Consuite will once again be located on the second floor, pool end, of the garden court and will be open throughout the weekend. Consuite needs help with set up and tear down, bartenders (must be at least 18 years old), twinkies (help with clean up, putting out supplies, etc.), room hosts, and relay people to fetch and carry assorted supplies from storage/coolers to the suite.

Krushenko's Krue
Krushenko's needs help with its programmed discussions and parties.

Volunteers needs Volunteers
In addition to coordinating volunteer needs, the Volunteers department also needs volunteers of their own during the convention.
A Volunteers subhead helps to coordinate immediate individual department needs with list of available volunteers, acts as contact person for individual department heads and as the decision-maker when Volunteers heads are not in the immediate vicinity.
A Volunteers registrar answers questions regarding available volunteer positions and records information.
For detailed questions or suggestions, send email to vols@minicon31.mnstf.org.