The lab tours run in parallel with the poster session (between the research talks and lunch). Each student spends one hour on lab tours and one hour at the poster/demo session; half do lab tours first, half do posters first. Each student sees two labs. Two sets of guides are involved in lab tours: escorts: undergraduates who take groups of students from the GSU to the two lab sites and back tour leaders: researchers who stay in their labs and talk to visiting groups of students. Students register for lab tours when they first arrive at the GSU. Three possible (and time-efficient) scenarios: Each school group is given tickets for a variety of lab tours (e.g. four for tour 1, four for tour 3 and so on) to be distributed among themselves. The lab registrars ask each student `what's your favorite science topic' (e.g. physics) and give her a numbered ticket that will put her on an appropriate tour (e.g. one that visits a physics lab and a beamed. engineering lab). Each student grabs a numbered ticket from piles labeled by the topics of the associated tours (e.g. math/astronomy). Immediately after the research talks, the students are told that tours 1 to 15 (for example) should meet their escorts in the lobby outside the auditorium while tours 16 to 30 (for example) will meet their tour escorts in the lobby in an hour.
	When you reach the GSU, go to the lab tour registration table to confirm the location of the labs your tour will visit and receive a placard with the number of your tour. Await the students, holding up the placard so they can identify you. While taking the students around campus, please: lead the students to each lab in turn, then back to the GSU at the end of the hour remind the researchers to give the students back to you after 20 min so they can see both labs AND get lunch talk with the students, answer their questions about BU, try to be upbeat While taking students around campus, please do NOT: smoke flirt with the students
	The students will be brought to your lab and taken away again by the lab tour escorts. You need not come to the GSU at all -- unless you are joining us for lunch! The tour should be in a lab, not just an office. You will do two 20-minute tours during each hour you registered for. In planning the tour, please consider what part of your research you will feel comfortable explaining at a high-school level. You should: define each technical term in simple language the first time you need to use it explain the use of even very basic lab equipment take them through your story step by step; they have had fewer science classes than undergraduates and need to be led more carefully say explicitly what's new and exciting about the project Your lab and its equipment are naturally interesting to the students. They want to: know what the goal of your research is know how you use the equipment on a day-to-day level see someone actually doing part of an experiment and get to ask them a question about what they're up touch or try out some piece of lab equipment or computer themselves.
	1. Liz and Cynthia will send out a letter advertising Pathways to potential Poster/Demo presenters and Lab Tour leaders (all faculty, women graduate students and postdocs). They will give you the names and contact information for everyone who responds. 2. You need to sign up about 20-25 labs for each hour. Each lab should be willing to host two groups for 20 min. apiece during the hour; some labs will be happy to host 4 tours over 2 hours. The goal is to have no more than about 8 students in each tour group. Who: "anyone" from undergraduate researchers to faculty men or women researchers. Our priority is to have as many women as possible, but men are certainly not excluded. see the list from last year (ask Cynthia or Liz) You! (one organizer must stay at the GSU to handle crises) How: phone calls and one-to-one contact works best ask other Pathways volunteers to tap people in their departments who have interesting labs 3. As each person signs up, get her to fill out the standard Pathways volunteer registration form (available on the web site or from Cynthia). It is critical for Cynthia to know: contact information including phone, e-mail, address who will attend lunch who can stay to be part of the hot topics discussions the exact location and phone number of each lab 4. In talking to prospective lab tour leaders, emphasize that the students like to see equipment in action, or try out something for themselves. Share the ``tips for lab tour leaders'' with her (those above or your own version). 5. You also need to find undergraduates to escort tour groups from the GSU to the labs and back. Each escort handles only one tour group per day so the schedule isn't held up by a tour that returns late. As an incentive, we offer either a movie pass or a $5.00 coupon to Union Court for each escorted tour (yes, students can escort one tour each day and ear two passes or coupons). Who: Dean's Hosts from CAS and ENG members of undergraduate science/engineering clubs like Women in Math, Photon, Chemia, SWE... men or women 6. Obtain contact information for each escort. Share the "tips for lab escorts'' with them (those above or your own version). 7. A week before the event, hold a briefing for the escorts. This is your chance to remind them: what time they should report which labs each will be going to to dress appropriately and refrain from smoking in the presence of the high-school students to sign up their movie or Union Court passes when they return their students to the GSU! 8. A week before the event, hold a briefing (perhaps by e-mail) for the lab tour leaders to confirm : how many tours each is doing (and when) directions to each lab (a map with locations highlighted might be a good idea) 9. On the day of the event, be on hand at registration to match students with their tours. Greet tour escorts as they arrive, make sure they know where to take their students, and give each the placard with the number of her tour.

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