Category: Volunteer Opportunities

The Student Activities Council (SAC) is requesting nominations from faculty and staff for a student emcee for Hippodrome 2022 at 7 p.m. April 8 at the Campus Activities Center. Established in 1928, Hippodrome began as a variety show featuring the comedic talents of students. For more information, visit the WSU Hippodrome 2022 website.

Volunteer as a judge for the Shocker New Venture Competition (SNVC) Trade Show People’s Choice Award 1- 6 p.m. April 22 at Koch Arena. The People’s Choice Award is awarded by the student body, which decides what team receives a cash prize to move their business forward. During the process of assessing each team, student judges will get an inside look into what it means to launch a business idea.

Encourage your students to volunteer as judges for the Shocker New Venture Competition (SNVC) Trade Show People’s Choice Award Trade Show 1-6 p.m. April 22 at Koch Arena. The People’s Choice Award is awarded by the student body, which decides what team receives a cash prize to move their business forward. During the process of assessing each team, student judges will get an inside look into what it means to launch a business idea.

The organizers of the Science Olympiad State Tournament are requesting volunteers to assist middle and high school students between 7:15 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 2. For more information, contact Jill Fisher at jill.fisher@wichita.edu.

The Ulrich Museum of Art’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at the museum 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 9. The event is part of the museum’s Women’s History Month celebrations and is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

For the third year in a row, the Ulrich is partnering with Art + Feminism, and other communities nationwide, to research, edit and add information to the Wikipedia entries for women and other underrepresented artists. Click here to learn more.

KMUW is requesting volunteers to help edit text transcriptions for its Save the Waves project. Participants must have a Gmail account and spelling and grammar skills to help out.

KMUW’s Save the Waves project is an initiative to find, digitize and preserve public broadcasts from across the state of Kansas to be archived at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and The Library of Congress. More than 2,000 physical media items have been digitized and the staff of KMUW is now in the process of transcribing and cataloging these files.

For more information, contact archives@kmuw.org.

A graduate student is seeking volunteers for a research study addressing the willingness of members of the campus community to share biometric data. The outcome of the research will provide more knowledge about different behaviors between undergraduate students and other campus populations when it comes to the use of biometric information.

The study will be conducted via an online survey (Qualtrics.com) and is expected to take approximately five to 10 minutes to complete. Participants must be affiliated with Wichita State (student, faculty, staff, etc.), be age 18 or older, and have access to the internet to be able to complete the survey. 

For more information, please contact lxbalcarova@shockers.wichita.edu.

Volunteers are requested for the Miss Latina pageant at 7 p.m. April 16 at the Campus Activities Center theater. The dress rehearsal will be April 15. This volunteer opportunity is open to all students, faculty and staff.

Students who are registered Hispanic American Leadership Organization (HALO) members are required to volunteer for either Si Se Puede or Miss Latina. Volunteer tasks include the following

• Tech crew
• Decoration set up
• backstage manager

An audiology program graduate student from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is requesting volunteers for a research study involving persons that can be classified as an English-only speaker or an English-Spanish bilingual speaker. Volunteers must be between the ages of 18-35.

The purpose of this research study is to understand the listening abilities of bilingual individuals in quiet and noisy environments. The results of this research should give the profession of audiology more information on how a second language affects hearing and auditory processing in noise.

Participants will be asked to complete a pre-questionnaire asking for their gender, age group, race, and whether one identifies as a person of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin. After completing the questionnaire, participants’ hearing will be tested in various listening conditions (i.e., hearing tones, repeating words in quiet and in noise, and repeating sentences in noise).

English-only participants will complete the tests in English, while the Spanish-English bilingual participants will complete the tests in both English and Spanish. Participants will then be asked to complete a post-questionnaire asking for feedback on how easy or difficult it was to listen in those various conditions. 

The tests are expected to last less than one hour and will take place at the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech, Language, Hearing Clinic on Oliver and 29th Street. 

For more information or to participate, contact Maira Bañuelos Galicia at 316-249-4889 or mxbanuelosgalicia@shockers.wichita.edu. You can also contact Dr. Cynthia Richburg at 316-978-6682 or cynthia.richburg@wichita.edu.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is interested in learning more about the experiences of School of Art, Design and Creative Industries (ADCI) students at listening sessions March 3 and 4. Students who participate will help to improve the school. The listening sessions will take place at the following times and locations:

• 5 p.m. March 3 at the RSC (Room 264)
• 1 p.m. March 4 via Zoom

Registration is required to attend each of these sessions. Each session will be limited to the first 15 people registered.

For more information, contact Alicia Sanchez at Alicia.sanchez@wichita.edu.