CALBO Education Week

Costa Mesa

CALBO Education Week: Costa Mesa
Monday, October 28 - Thursday, October 31, 2024

Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa
3050 Bristol St | Costa Mesa, CA | 92626
714-540-7000

• Group Room Block Rate: $165.00 per overnight + taxes
   
• Group Room Block Deadline: CLOSED
   
• Hotel Online Reservations: CLOSED
   
• Parking Summary: All registrants are responsible for their own parking – whether day or overnight.
   
• Day Self-Parking Rate: For the self-parking discounted rate of $10.00 per vehicle, per day at the hotel parking garage, you must notify the attendant upon exiting that you attend the CALBO Education Week. The discount is not valid for overnight parking. All attendees are responsible for their own parking fees.
  ***IMPORTANT: Discounts are not provided and rates are not guaranteed for non-hotel parking.***
   
• Overnight Self-Parking Rate:​ $18.00 per vehicle, per overnight for those reservations under the CALBO Room Block. **IMPORTANT: This discounted price must be requested if overnights are NOT booked through the CALBO Room Block. Please check with the hotel for the rate prior to arrival.
   
• Airport Shuttle: Complimentary airport shuttle to/from John Wayne Airport (SNA).

*Any reservation received after the cutoff date or after the room block is at capacity will be accepted on a space and rate availability basis only. Availability is first-come, first-served.

What to Expect from your Virtual Attendance?

CALBO has invested in production resources to live stream courses from Burlingame and Costa Mesa. Courses are taught live with an additional subject matter expert in the classroom to work with all virtual attendees in real-time. To make the most of your experience, please read the information below.

**IMPORTANT: DOWNLOAD THE VIRTUAL STUDENT CHECKLIST - CLICK HERE**

• Registration Deadlines - Burlingame Registration Deadline is Thursday, September 19 at 5:00pm sharp, no exceptions. Costa Mesa Registration Deadline is Thursday, October 17 at 5:00pm sharp, no exceptions.

• One Week Before Each Course - Please download the GoToWebinar application on an electronic device, such as a laptop, desktop or tablet. Without this application, courses cannot be watched by a virtual student. Each student must log into their GoToWebinar classroom with their personalized join link and watch their course for credit. Get familiar with GTW with this information.

• Two Days Before Each Course - Each student is emailed a personalized GoToWebinar join link 72 hours before each course. Audio and visual can be accessed with the link. These links are unique to each student and may NOT be shared with others. Unique links are also emailed to each student to download course materials as well. Please download and save the materials as the links expire after each course concludes.

• Day of Each Course - Each student should use their personalized GoToWebinar join link to enter their online classroom on the course day after 7:30am. Courses start at 8:00am. Audio and visual can be accessed with this link. Please consult the conference program for daily schedule and break times. IMPORTANT: Virtual students must log into their online classroom using their personalized GoToWebinar join link to WATCH the entire course to receive credit. Logging out of a virtual classroom or calling into a webinar without using a link to watch the course disqualifies an attendee from earning CEUs. An attendance certificate will not be issued.

• Breaks - Each Course takes place from 8:00am – 3:30pm with scheduled breaks. Ten-minute breaks take place in the morning at 9:00am and 10:15am and afternoon at 1:15pm and 2:30pm. Lunch takes place from 11:15am – 12:15pm. Times are strictly followed. IMPORTANT: If attending virtually, please do not log out during the breaks.

• Attendance Certificate - Each student is emailed their attendance certificate, which is also printable, within 72 hours of each course. All courses are approved by the ICC Preferred Provider Program and most courses are approved by The American Institute of Architects. For six-hour courses, 0.6 CEUs is granted. Students must log into their virtual classroom with their personalized GoToWebinar join link and watch the course for the entire duration to receive credit.

• Evaluations - Each student is emailed an online course and instructor evaluation after each course concludes to provide feedback about their learning experience.

• Cancellations - Written notification of cancellation must be received by info@calbo.org no later than one week before the start of the event for a refund, minus a 25% processing fee. Any cancellations after this date are non-refundable, and the registrant is responsible for full payment. No-shows are NOT refunded.

• Transfers - Registrations may be transferred to another individual or another 2024 Education Week if the written request is received by info@calbo.org no later than one week before the start of the event. Registration transfers or changes after this date or onsite registrations at the venue are NOT accepted. Attendance changes from in-person to virtual or virtual to in-person after this date are NOT accepted. All transfer requests or registration changes are NOT guaranteed. Please contact the CALBO Office as soon as possible regarding all registration changes.