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Volunteer at Apogaea

Apogaea 2025: DISCO DYSTOPIA • June 4 - 8, 2025 • Valdez, CO

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2025 IMPORTANT DATES

  • 10/31/24 – 12/31/24:  Big Money Art Grant Applications Open

Volunteer Roles At Apogaea

Apogaea is made entirely out of volunteer dedication and love. We are hundreds of volunteers, working and playing together year-round and during the event to produce Apogaea’s infrastructure. Event Volunteers make up the main force, aided by Sparks and Ignition steering groups. As volunteers we enjoy an opportunity to participate, make friends, play, learn and practice a variety of skills!

Introduce participants to our culture and values

Communicate the happenings by producing: survival guide, WWWW, graphics, video, photography and more!

Provide guidance and support to department leads

Provide safety services to participants

Ensure that volunteer operation is going smoothly, fill in any needed role

Serve coffee at center camp

Ensure participant safety by directing art car traffic

Set up, maintain and tear down physical infrastructure: Create roads, structures & signage before the event. Maintain vehicles, generators, fire barrels, communications, and other equipment during the event, and sell ice.  After the event we tear down buildings and store everything in our semi trailers.  Leave No Trace volunteers help our participants restore the land to how we found it.

Maintain perimeter and fire safety at fire performances

Check in the arriving participants

Welcome and guide participants upon arrival

Answer various participant questions

IT manages the digital infrastructure for the org. This includes our Google Workplace, Slack, wiki, volunteer database, ticketing, and other systems.

Light the lamps at night and recharge batteries during the day

Direct parking to maximize flat space for humans and tents

Coordinate the placement of main things at the event

Ensure safety of participants by constructive means

Educating the Apogaea community about Leave No Trace (TNT) and MOOP and encourage everyone to keep Apo Green

Coordinate the volunteer force operations

Coordinate activities for youth during the event

Open Ignition & Sparks Roles

Join Ignition and Sparks steering groups! These roles are responsible for smooth event operation and year-round projects. To apply for an open role, fill out the form below!

Open Ignition Roles

As Apogaea Power & Light (APL) Lead your job would be handling all things electrical during Apogaea. This includes running cables to and from generator boxes, and assessing/planning/executing the electrical needs of key areas within the burn (center camp, medical, fire, DICE, and some theme camps & art). As APL XO you would be assisting the APL Lead in all of their functions.

As Collexodus Lead your job would be to organize and execute the gathering of donations at the end of the event. Items like leftover sealed non-perishable foods, unwanted clothing in reasonable condition, and any other items that could be donated to the local community are what you would be looking for. You will be able to assemble a team of volunteers to help get the job done.

Manages all Exodus leads and volunteers in the breakdown and de-mooping after the event.  Requires attending meetings before Apo and assisting with recruiting volunteers.  Contact [email protected] & [email protected] for more information.

As Exodus XO your job would be assisting the Exodus Manager with coordinating all Exodus leads and volunteers in the breakdown and de-mooping after the event.

The Internal Communications & Collaborations lead is responsible for working with the various department leads to find, document, and implement tools and processes to improve communications and collaboration. This includes, but is not limited to the wiki, discussion groups/forums, task & date tracking, and contact management solutions. This person will work with each department to find out about their current needs, pain points, look at possible solutions, and on implementing and training org members on solutions.

The Wiki Lead and the ICC Admin & Moderator will report to the ICC Lead.

Can you lead your team to keep our communications flowing at Apogaea? If so, please email us with the following:
• A general description of your IT and/or collaboration experience, both professionally and for hobby.
• Any relevant documents (resume?), links (portfolio), etc. you would like considered.
• Brilliant answers to these 7 questions:
1. What technology and platforms do you tend to prefer?
2. What new technologies are you excited to use? (does not have to be relevant to Apo in any way)
3. Why do you want to volunteer for this role? (this is the really important one hidden in the middle)
4. What kind of relevant team leading experiences have you had?
5. What knowledge or experience would you like to gain from this role?
6. How have you participated with Apogaea in the past?
7. How many hours on average per week, about, do you think you can volunteer?

Apogaea needs an IT helper to carry out account & group administration tasks, mainly:
-> Create, manage, and remove accounts in Google and other systems
-> Add\Remove members of Groups in Google and other systems
-> Help users access their account, reset their password, etc
-> Help Dept Leads keep the Apo User list updated
-> Help IT Lead with account roll-off processed as needed
-> Admin other systems as needed used by other departments

Here’s what we’re looking for:
-> Reliability and integrity. An entire community is trusting you with the keys to our communications infrastructure
-> Responsiveness to emails and general availability. This is a backup role to the IT lead
-> The ability to take on tasks and own them to completion
-> Account and group management. This will be your primary responsibility
-> Google Apps (Sheet & Docs mainly) knowledge
-> Experience managing domain names, hosting accounts, control panels, and other misc systems

Are you up for helping Apo IT? If so, please email us with the following:
-> A general description of your IT experience, both professionally and for hobby.
-> Any relevant documents (resume), links (portfolio), etc.

This person needs the expertise to manage the Apogaea IT department, which includes a team of systems admins, web developers, Wiki Lead, Volunteer Database, IT Leads, and IT Admins. Your primary job is to ensure that Apogaea organizations members have the resources and the tools to complete their task and to set future direction for tools and procedures.
• G-Suite and Google Apps platform knowledge. Our operation depends on this platform every day.
• Experience managing domain names, hosting accounts, control panels, and other misc systems. We need re-organizational help on this front as well.
• Ability to work with and manage volunteers. As department lead, you’ll be organizing a team, not just flying solo.
• Responsiveness to emails and general availability. This is a leadership role and is part of internal communication channel known as “Ground Control”.
• Willingness to own new projects, build teams, collect resources, and generally ensure snazzy execution.
• Reliability and integrity. An entire community is trusting you with the keys to our communications infrastructure.

Can you lead your team to keep our systems online, useful, secure, and modern? If so, please email us with the following:
• A general description of your IT knowledge and experience both professionally and for hobby.
• Any relevant documents (resume?), links (portfolio), etc. you would like considered.
• Brilliant answers to these 7 questions:
1. What technology and platforms do you tend to prefer?
2. What new technologies are you excited to use? (does not have to be relevant to Apo in any way)
3. Why do you want to volunteer for this role? (this is the really important one hidden in the middle)
4. What kind of relevant team leading experiences have you had?
5. What knowledge or experience would you like to gain from this role?
6. How have you participated with Apogaea in the past?
7. How many hours on average per week, about, do you think you can volunteer?
(hint: anywhere from 2 to 5 is a sane… but be as honest as possible.

As Lead Mechanic your job would be to generally be our “fix it” person. Servicing and repairing generators, and other minor mechanical needs.

As LNT lead your job would be to work with and manage volunteers during exodus to ensure that we leave no trace after the event. You will also keep track of theme camps and areas where moop was left. As LNT XO your job would be to assist with the execution of all of the job functions of the LNT Lead.

Apogaea’s Sign Department works within DPW and installs street signs so we can navigate our fine city. Come help us install or remove our signage and prepare them for next year. DPW works both days of Work Weekend, Saturday and Sunday, as well as after the event for Exodus. You may arrive noon on Friday to set up and stay on land between Work Weekend and Apogaea. Meals are provided for DPW during Work Weekend and Strike.

As transportation lead your job is to organize and execute the transportation plan for Apogaea. This includes assigning vehicles (golf carts, gators, trucks) to the people and departments that need them, ensuring transfer of those vehicles happens as necessary, and making sure we have them all back at the end.

The Work Weekend XO (Executive Officer) collaborates with the Work Weekend Manager to plan and coordinate with DPW Crews and Apogaea Departments in the months leading up to our event and during Work Weekend just prior to the event. The ideal candidate likes to plan in advance and get their work done before the event so you are free to roam once Apo begins. Should be available for several hours of remote work as needed per week leading up to the event, and onsite during Fri., Sat., and Sunday of Work Weekend. Experience not required, will train. Open to all. Benefits included.

Open Spark Roles

We are searching for a volunteer to work with our Historian Lead.   This role will assist with the preservation of our History by recording and editing interviews with people that have greatly impacted Apogaea thru the years.  The interviews will be organized and conducted by our Historial Lead. This position will begin Fall/Winter 2024 for the 2025 year.

Open Ignition & Sparks Positions

Thank you for your interest in Apogaea! Please fill out the form below and one of our volunteers will be in touch as soon as possible.

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