Volunteer for the Science Bowl!

How can you help? Volunteer your time and skills to help make this year's Science Bowl a success. Read about the volunteer opportunities on this page and click the Volunteer Registration link in the sidebar to become a TSB volunteer!

Opportunities for Volunteers

Training information is listed at the bottom of this page. Interested volunteers should email Manon Fleming for more info.

Civility Award Judge

  • Serves on a team of 12-15 volunteers
  • Observes teams during round-robin competition and during breaks
  • Collaborates to select most respectful and courteous team

Crowd Control

  • Assist students, coaches, volunteers, and guests with directions and general information

Moderator

  • Reads questions to teams
  • Controls the match
  • Science/engineering/math background preferred

Registration

  • Volunteers assist with distributing team and volunteer information on Friday and/or Saturday.

Rules Judge

  • Ensures that all competition rules are followed
  • Ensures that is it quiet
  • Ensures that no one signals/communicates with the competitors

Runner

  • Takes the official score sheet from the competition room to Science Bowl Central
  • Runs errands for competition room officials, as required

Question Judge

  • Ensures correct teams are in the competition room
  • Ensures the moderator is reading questions from the correct round
  • Ensures the moderator is reading the questions correctly (not skipping words, correct pronunciations)

Scorekeeper

  • Set up the score sheet
  • Keeps a running total of scores in the competition room
  • Announce total at half-time and the final scores at the end of the game
  • Sign official score sheet

Timekeeper

  • Focus on the time – not the game!
  • Operates the official competition time clock
  • Must know the competition rules

Training for All Volunteers

Attention: Training for Saturday competition room volunteers is scheduled for Tuesday, January 21, 2025, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. It will be available in person at the J.L. Goins Administration Building, Pellissippi State’s Hardin Valley Campus, and online via Zoom. Training is required for Moderators, Question Judges, and Rules Judges and is strongly recommended for Scorekeepers and Timekeepers with less than 3 years of experience.

Well prepared volunteers are crucial to the success of the competition!!  An e-mail reminder about the training will be sent to volunteers in early January.

Interested volunteers should email Manon Fleming for more info.