Northern Regional Conference

At the Northern Regional Leadership Conference, members from the state’s northern chapters gather for an engaging one day event. Secondary and Postsecondary/Collegiate members compete in numerous amounts of events varying from skilled to knowledge. A guest speaker attends and enlightens members on certain topics typically pertaining to the medical industry and life lessons and is followed by an entertaining down time session. Come the end of the day, awards are distributed to each event’s top 5 participants where the top 3 later advance to compete in the State Leadership Conference.

When: Saturday, January 18, 2025 from 8:00am – 5pm
Where: Passaic County Technical Vocational Schools
Registration deadline: Dec 13, 2024

Regional Conference Competitive Events

Conference limits:

Due to safety reasons, we are limiting the attendance. For NRC, there will be a maximum of 650 people allowed.
A maximum of 5 competitors are allowed per event. Students are allowed to compete in one event only.

Cost: $40 per student. Even though there is no charge to attend the conference, please make sure all advisors and chaperones are registered so we have an accurate head count.

Changes: this year, Clinical Nursing and Researched Persuasive Writing and Speaking are now State only events. Clinical Nursing is now open only to postsecondary/collegiate members

Payments:

Fees must be sent to us at Kean University. If you need a w-9 form, please let me know.
No changes, alternates, or substitutions are allowed 2 weeks prior to the conference.
If students are self paying, please make sure payment is in hand before registering them.
No refunds will be issued.

Dress code:
Students are required to dress as per the NJ dress code. Download NJ HOSA Dress Code (pdf)

Photo IDs:
Students will be required to show their ID to judges. Acceptable forms of ID can be found in Appendix G at https://hosa.org/appendices/