Convention

The Convention has a NEW look for 2025.  Using three walkable hotels, all activities will take place at the spacious Ocean City Convention Center!

 

PLEASE NOTE: MASC event registration is the sole responsibility of the school SGA advisor as an authorized agent of the school. Students or their parents may NOT carry out the online registration.

• Listening to a nationally recognized motivational speaker
• Grade-level workshop with the motivational speaker
• Exciting and meaningful student-led leadership workshops
• Networking with student leaders from across the state
• MASC 2024-2025 Officer Elections
• Voting on stances for youth-related bills in the MD general assembly
• Fun recreational activities
• Team building and get-to-know activities


Date: Tuesday through Thursday, March 11 – 13, 2025
Location:
Roland E. Powell Convention Center, Ocean City
Early Bird Registration: Dec. 1, 2024 – closes at 11:59 p.m., Jan. 10, 2025
Regular Registration: January 11, 2025 – closes at 11:59 p.m., Feb. 7, 2025
Member Schools Only: Member schools can register the number of allocated voting delegates according to their membership, plus MASC executive board members (see FAQ). Please feel free to email Karen.Crawford@mdstudentcouncil.org if you have questions.

 

Cost: Includes conference venue space, two breakfasts, one lunch, one dinner, two evening snacks, recreational activities, on-site 24/7 nurse, motivational speaker, convention tee shirt, and other behind-the-scenes conference contracts and expenses.
Early Bird: $265
Regular Registration:  $285
Emergency Plans: coming soon (Convention Center and all Hotels)

Information on how to reserve your hotel rooms is coming soon!  We are still waiting to see if rooms in the Hilton and Doubletree can accommodate six (two queens and a double/queen pull-out sofa).  MASC will have full details on when the reservations open and the code to reserve rooms.  Thanks for your patience as this is a new experience for all of us.

Aloft Ocean City
4501 Coastal Hwy, Ocean City, MD 21842
(.4 miles  8-minute walk)

Doubletree by Hilton, Ocean City Oceanfront
3
301 Atlantic Avenue, Ocean City, Maryland 21842 (410) 289-1234
.7 miles  15-minute walk

Hilton Suite Oceanfront (room block cut off February 7)
3200 North Baltimore Avenue, Ocean City, Maryland 21841 (410) 520-0107
(.8 miles   15-minute walk)


Early Bird Registration December 1, 2024 -January 10, 2025

 

ADVISORS ONLY  –
Only member schools may register.   

• Before registering, review the Registration Checklist and complete the Registration Worksheet. Do NOT attempt to register until you have done this. A completed Registration Worksheet will contain the information required to register your delegation.

• Convention Invitation Letter
• Convention Welcome Letter
• Advisor Bulletin
•  Sample Family Letter
•  Sample Family Letter in Spanish
• Emergency Form – needed for every student and advisor
• Delegate Contract – needed for every student
• Registration Checklist
• Registration Worksheet
• Housing Request Worksheet
• Schedule/Agenda:
• Convention “App” –
• Workshop Choices:
• Information included in the MASC Convention App:

After you have reviewed the Registration Checklist and Worksheet above,  CLICK HERE to begin registration. 

Frequently Asked Questions (updated Sept. 2024)

If you have registration questions, please email Wayne.Perry@mdstudentcouncils.org.  For all other questions, email Karen.Crawford@mdstudentcouncils.org


Covid Procedures: 

MASC is following CDC and Maryland Department of Health Guidelines for the Convention. 

We want to remind all MASC participants that if you experience COVID symptoms before the Convention, please follow CDC guidance (e.g., “People who have symptoms of respiratory or gastrointestinal infections, such as cough, fever, sore throat, vomiting, or diarrhea, should stay home. Testing is recommended for people with symptoms of COVID-19 as soon as possible after symptoms begin. Staying home when sick can lower the risk of spreading infectious diseases, including COVID-19, to other people.”) 

Masks will be available with the onsite nurse. If a student is experiencing symptoms, they can see the nurse to take a Rapid test. If a student tests positive, the nurse will notify the advisor and executive directors and that child will be placed in a separate room for isolation until the child’s parents can come and take them home. (Specific information from the Maryland Department of Health can be found here.) 

If exposed to COVID, all students and advisors will need to follow the steps from the Maryland Department of Health that can be found here. If someone tests positive, students who have been around that student need to wear a mask (N95 mask from the nurse)  and start testing in five days.