There are still rooms available for the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday nights of the Workshop. However, the Friday and Saturday nights prior to the Workshop are sold out.

With the exception of the day-long student workshop and Multimedia Quick Course, regular Workshop sessions begin at 3 p.m. Sunday. Most people in the U.S., because of the Pacific time zone we’re in, can arrive in time to get to the hotel and make the first session.

However, if you need to be here earlier, please contact site chair Bill Gaspard at bill.gaspard@lasvegassun.com. There may be some cancellations of Saturday night rooms or the freeing up of some Friday and Saturday rooms from the APME room block. He can also advise on the closest alternate hotels for those nights.

Start [here](http://www.sndvegas.com/practical/reserve-hotel/) to reserve your room at Red Rock.

Based in Providence and run by Quick Course pioneer Bill Ostendorf, this internship offers a very different and cool opportunity. Creative Circle works on print and web design projects and has a sister company which designs software.

Ostendorf tells us, “I’m willing to do a print or web design internship or a combination of both. The intern would work here in Providence under my direct supervision. If they worked on print designs, they would travel to client sites. If they worked on web designs, they might work for the software company as well as the consulting company.” [Click here](http://www.creativecirclemedia.com/) to learn more about everything Creative Circle is up to these days.

So, the list of opportunities for The Intern continues to grow. Make sure to visit our Intern page and download your application. Deadline is July 16. Many thanks to Bill and the Creative Circle group for joining us.

We have sold double our room block at the hotel for Friday and Saturday nights before the Workshop. If you call the hotel and book by phone you will be told that we’re sold out those nights and not be able to get a room. We are, in fact, sold out. We’ll try and negotiate more rooms for those two days. In the meantime, if you book online [click here for our hotel booking page](http://www.sndvegas.com/practical/reserve-hotel/) you can still book for those two nights. I don’t know when the hotel will discover this and shut it down, but we recommend that if you’re thinking about coming a day or two early that you book online. Now. And that’s especially true for the board members who haven’t signed on but need to be here for a Saturday meeting.

The Globe has been a worldwide industry leader in design since the 1980s. A perennial top winner in the Best of Newspaper Design, the Globe tied for 4th with the St. Petersburg Times with 37 awards in last year’s competition.

So, the list of opportunities for The Intern continues to grow. Make sure to visit our Intern [page](http://www.sndvegas.com/students/the-intern/) and download your application. Deadline is July 16. Many thanks to Dan Zedek and the crew at the Globe for taking part again.

Salt Lake City — $118 (also check Jet Blue, which has comparable fares)

Denver — $146

Indy — $192

Albuquerque — $196

Kansas City — $200

Spokane — $200

Portland — $211

Seattle — $211

Houston — $229

Jacksonville — $238

Boise — $238

Austin — $250

Columbus — $250

Raleigh-Durham — $250

Ft. Lauderdale — $257

Cleveland — $260

Philly — $270

Manchester, N.H. — $276

Pittsburgh — $287

Chicago — $294

Start [here](http://southwest.com/cgi-bin/lowFareFinderEntry) to begin your low-fare search on Southwest.

For the actual Workshop nights (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday), we’re fine. No need to hurry if you’re planning to come for those nights or later in the week.

At the moment, if you phone in your reservation operators will tell you we’ve exceeded our room block for Friday/Saturday. However, we’re finding you can still book for those nights if you use the [online booking system](http://www.sndvegas.com/practical/reserve-hotel/).

We are working with the hotel to increase our room block for those nights. And we’ll very likely get some extra rooms. But it looks like the “come early” half of the “come early, stay late” equation is pretty popular.

We’ll post additional information about the hotel as we confirm additional rooms and get more information on registration patterns. Watch this space.

And we’re sorry we’re so late in getting this information out.

But the good news is, the application process is considerably simpler — as is the entire selection process. [View the full details and download this year’s application](http://www.sndvegas.com/students/the-intern/).

After a couple of wonderfully elaborate contests in Orlando and Boston, we’re taking a low-key approach in Vegas.

We’re doing that partly because the timing of this Workshop makes it impossible for a number of students to attend (we’re the first week of classes for many schools). And partly because the media economy is in tough shape this year.

But for everyone who can come, we’re opening the process to many more students. Now, every student who applies and shows up for the free student workshop on Sunday can participate in the first two rounds of the competition.

You do not have to register for the professional workshop to participate, but you do have to find your way to Vegas on Sunday, Sept. 7 to be considered. And you must send in an application prior to the workshop. If you’re still not sure if you can be here, you have until July 16 to have the application to us.

So far, we have two paid internships for either juniors or seniors — one with The Arizona Republic and the other with the St. Petersburg Times. We will announce additional participants over the summer. It’s too early in the budget cycle for some papers to make a commitment.

In addition, Poynter is offering three multimedia fellowships for graduating seniors that run from the first week of June to the third week of July. The $3500 tuition (which includes lodging and meals) will be waived.

And we’re planning to put together a job fair to bring you, the potential employees, together with potential employers in a mini job fair after the official “interns” are chosen. So even if you don’t win, you still have a good chance of leaving with a job.

Our next 15 eligible room registrants went into the drawing bowl today and Kimiko Fieg, Presentation Editor at the Victoria Advocate in Victoria, TX won the $150 gift certificate to the Red Rock Spa.

There’s still time to get in on the next drawing: A $100 gift card good at any of Red Rock’s 10 terrific restaurants. Just be among the next 25 people to book their hotel room. [Click here](http://www.sndvegas.com/practical/reserve-hotel/) for more information on reserving your room.

Congratulations Kimiko! Will you be next?