Tips for Hosting a Zone Meeting

One way to make sure you can attend a zone meeting is to host it at your university. Hosting at your university has all the advantages of going to a zone meeting but adds the additional benefits of not having to travel, the opportunity to show off your university, and the opportunity to participate in a significant way within your zone.

You may be wondering what you will need to do to prepare for such an event. Fortunately, there is a list of simple steps that will help guide you through the process of hosting your zone meeting, making it as fun and stress free as possible.

First and foremost: Contact your zone councilor or associate zone councilor.

Getting in contact with your National Council representative is definitely the first step when you are planning a zone meeting. Your AZC and ZC will have the resources and information to help you plan and organize your event and will be able to advise you if there are any other chapters in your zone that have already requested to host the meeting in the year in which you are interested. Some zones will host two meetings a year, meaning that you have twice the opportunity to schedule a meeting. You can find contact information for your ZC and AZC on the SPS National website,

Go to the SPS National website for more information about hosting zone meetings.

This guide is a brief introduction to what you should do when preparing for a zone meeting, but there are plenty of things that will be unique to your specific meeting. For a more complete list of things to do before hosting a zone meeting, go to the SPS National website to view the hosting a zone meeting checklist. If you still have unanswered questions, contact your AZC or ZC for more information.

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To learn more about SPS regional zones and their meetings, visit www.spsnational.org/meetings/zone-meetings .