Dear Administrators, Teachers, Staff and Community Leaders:
Registration for the 2025 Iowa HOBY Seminar is now open! Thank you for supporting Iowa Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership and for giving your student an opportunity to attend the Iowa HOBY Leadership Seminar. As an educator or community leader, you have the privilege of selecting or nominating an ambassador to represent your school or community. We encourage you to make this selection early so that we may best serve your and your student’s needs before and at the Iowa HOBY Seminar.
Please take advantage of the Iowa HOBY volunteers here to help you: Rachel Paine-Caufield, our Corporate Board President, and Ali Watkins, 2025 Leadership Seminar Chair. Our goal at Iowa HOBY is to empower young people to grow in personal and group leadership and to find ways to offer more to the community around them.
Sincerely,
Rachel Paine Caufield
Corporate Board President
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Why Iowa HOBY? Ask any Iowa HOBY alumni what makes HOBY different from another leadership conference and you’ll get a variety of answers. Some may say it is the sense of community that an ambassador feels from the moment they arrive, some may say that it is the opportunity to interact with business professionals, some may say it’s the broad exposure to a variety of issues young people and our world today, and some may say the volunteer staff members. While the number of reasons why Iowa HOBY is far beyond “just another leadership seminar” are too many to count one key reason is HOBY’s commitment to Leadership for Service. Take some time to read about this element of the Iowa HOBY program and why it continues to lift Iowa HOBY far above ordinary and into extraordinary.
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Volunteers of Iowa HOBY work every day to raise the nearly $35,000 required to conduct the three day seminar. Thank you for appreciating the work of our volunteers. Our only fundraising goal is to allow as many Iowa students to participate in this worthwhile program as possible.
We understand that the fees associated with Iowa HOBY can be a challenge for some schools to provide. If you have questions regarding fundraising materials and resources in your community, please email Shana Smrcina or Rachel Harms, 2025 Recruitment Team, at recruitment@iahoby.org or Ali Watkins, our 2025 Leadership Seminar Chair, at lsc@iahoby.org.
Iowa HOBY hopes to raise 65-70 percent from Cooperating Organizations. These are clubs and organizations that are service and community-based and believe in the core values of Iowa HOBY. If you are able to provide up-to-date contact information for a chapter president and a mailing or email address we are willing to send a sponsorship request on your school’s behalf.
Iowa HOBY offers a limited number of scholarships to eligible students. If your student is eligible, please reach out to Iowa HOBY for more information.