Full conference schedule coming! For current information, check out the SEEK21 website.

SEEK21 will be hosted at the America’s Center Convention Complex located on the 800 block of Washington Avenue in St. Louis, MO.

For a travel information, check out this transportation guide.

For parking information, check out the parking map.

We’re excited to have you join us! As first time sponsors of our conference, here are a few helpful tips:

• Hotels are not included with your sponsorship. View hotel information here.
• Wi-fi is not included with your sponsorship. Additional information about Wi-fi coming soon.
• If you are shipping to the convention center, additional charges apply. Additional cost information coming soon.
• To have a great experience, ensure you engage with the attendees. View best practices here. And, remember to have fun!

Sponsors will most likely choose to park in their hotel’s parking lot or in the 6th & Convention Lot garage. Parking in this garage costs $17 per day. For additional parking options and information, take a look at this parking map.

Your SEEK21 sponsorship includes lunch , but your breakfast and dinner are not provided.

Other food options:

• Check out the St. Louis’ “Visit Downtown” directory.
• Delivery: Doordash, UberEATS, or GrubHub
• Restaurants: Explore St. Louis Dining

No outside food or beverage will be allowed in the convention center. However, if you would like to serve food or beverage at your booth, please contact our events team ([email protected]) and we can help you with your catering order.

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• Have an award or incentive for getting information
• Have some fun props that attendees can take a picture of/with and then email that picture to the attendee after the conference Display your products on and behind your booth

If you want to sell products:

• Display your products on and behind your booth
• Tell students as they walk by that they would look great in your apparel
• Ask them if they’ve ever heard of anything you are selling

If you want to have a presence at SEEK21, have conversations with attendees and make connections:

• If you’re a religious sponsor, consider bringing a “How would you look in a habit/vestment” photo booth cut-out so students can take photos of themselves in it!
• Fun props
• Interactive games

Other ways to generate traffic flow:

• Stand in front of your table – don’t just sit behind it
• Actively engage anyone who walks by
• Make eye contact
• Talk to them – do something fun!
  • “Do you want to sign up for a raffle?”
  • “Have you ever heard of the _________?”
  • Hand them an iPad with an interactive app or something that they can’t walk away with
• Have students stop by your booth during a certain time to get a free giveaway
• If there is enough buzz and excitement surrounding your booth, people will come and find you

Remember, most of the attendees are college students, so you should engage them like college students!

• College students have late hours
• They don’t want to be marketed to
• They want an experience
• They love free stuff and food
• They will rarely initiate a conversation with sponsors
• Make yourself interesting and relevant to them!
• Be casual. Anything too formal could make you seem unapproachable to students
• Things to catch the eye:
  • Matching outfits
  • Interesting booth set up
  • Logos
  • Something fun!

What to bring for your booths:

• Laptop for video
• Monitor, etc.
• Posters
• Brochures
• Business cards
• Signup sheets
• Raffle prizes
• Flair to help your booth look cool

St. Louis America’s Center: As we are in the early phases of planning, we don’t have the location of where our sponsors will be yet.

For more information, refer to the interactive map.

FOCUS faithfully adheres to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. We strive to create a faith-filled, orthodox environment for conference attendees.

For this reason, FOCUS reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse applications, pull or close any exhibits or events that frustrate its mission or contradict the teachings of the Magisterium of the Catholic Church as outlined in the following profession of faith:

With firm faith I believe and profess each and everything that is contained in the Symbol of faith, namely:

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

With firm faith, I also believe everything contained in the word of God, whether written or handed down in Tradition, which the Church, either by a solemn judgment or by the ordinary and universal Magisterium, sets forth to be believed as divinely revealed.

I also firmly accept and hold each and everything definitively proposed by the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals.

 Moreover, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman Pontiff or the College of Bishops enunciate when they exercise their authentic Magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim these teachings by a definitive act.

SEEK21 Website: seek.focus.org

SEEK21 Video: YouTube

Explore St. Louis: explorestlouis.com