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Student Activities & Resources

Student Community on Lodestar
An online discussion among choral education students. Please register and participate – no membership required! In addition to being a place where you can ask questions of your peers and offer your thoughts and suggestions, we also have special guests drop by periodically. They have included Dr. Karyl Carlson (Illiniois State University) and Dr. Gary Packwood (Mississippi State University). Are you in? Yes?

  1. Go to the Lodestar site at https://mentoring.acda.org/ and hit “Create Account.”
  2. Create your account, then sign in.
  3. Go to your profile and join the Student Community (left column).

Once we approve your registration, go ahead and introduce yourself.

Resources

Most ACDA member benefits are available to students. Some that are especially for students and young professionals include:

Publications

  • Choral Journal in e-journal format, which regularly includes columns aimed at student interests
  • ACDA’s electronic journals ChorTeach (for the music educator) and the International Journal for Research in Choral Singing (for scholarly choral articles)

Publishing Opportunities

Publish in the “Student Times” section of Choral Journal (for information, contact Student Times editor, Jason Paulk)

Conferences

  • Full conference and state meetings options, including graduate credit and Continuing Education Units for qualifying national and regional conference activities
  • Student scholarships sometimes available to national and some regional conferences

Student Competitions and Awards

Graduate student conducting competition
Undergraduate student conducting masterclass
Student composition competitions
Outstanding Student Chapter Award
Outstanding doctoral research award: Julius Herford Dissertation Prize

Connection

  • ACDA Student Chapters. Want to find out if your campus has an existing chapter? Do you want to start a chapter? Click here for more
  • Lodestar: The ACDA Mentoring Program, a choral conductor mentoring program

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