Join the SBE
Going: Career Advancement
Growing: Professional Development
Knowing: Ongoing Education
Help your colleagues go, grow and know by joining the SBE.
The SBE wants your help in recruiting new members, and you can win rewards for your efforts. Sponsor a new Member, Associate Member or Sustaining Member between March 1 and May 31, 2020, and you will be eligible for the prize drawings. For each approved new member application you sponsor you will earn $5 off your 2021 membership dues, up to $25. If you recruit three or more Regular or Associate Members, or one Sustaining Member, you will also receive an upgrade to SBE MemberPlus for the remainder of the 2020 membership period.
Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2020, to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 15, 2020.
New members are welcome throughout the year. Here’s the link to the member application: SBE Membership application
Grand Prize
A trip to the SBE National Meeting held in conjunction with the annual SBE Chapter 22 Broadcast and Technology Expo in Syracuse, NY, Sept. 23, 2020. Prize package includes round trip airfare for one from within the continental US to the meeting; all SBE National Meeting and engineering conference events on Sept. 23; and two nights at the host hotel (Sept. 22-23).
Additional Prizes
From the SBE
SBE logoed t-shirt
Two SBE logoed notebooks
A copy of SBE CertPreview
One free SBE Webinars by SBE registration
One $25 gift certificate for the SBE Store/SBE Bookstore
Donated by Sustaining Members
BGS: two $100 Amazon gift cards
BSW: Audio-Technica ATHM40x headphones
Cavell Mertz & Associates: four $125 SBE Store/SBE Bookstore gift certificates
Comark: six insulated tumber and notepad sets
Comrex: Rugged Geek RG2000 jump starter/booster/power pack
Dielectric: two Dielectric-logoed polo shirts
Fujifilm: Instax camera
Heartland Video Systems: logoed items
LBA Group: two SafeONE personal RF monitors
Orban: 1101e card and breakout cable
Telos Alliance: logoed items
Tieline: two $25 Starbucks gift cards, two Tieline-logoed polo shirts
Wheatstone: FM-55 processor
Additional prizes will be announced as they are provided.
Golden Recruiter Award
This award recognizes a chapter in each size division recruiting the most new members during the Membership Drive.
Category A and B are based on chaper enrollment, Class A represents chapers whose membership is less than the national median. Class B includes chapters with a membership greater than the national median. Plaques will be awarded during the SBE National Awards Dinner on Sept. 23 in Syracuse, NY.
Membership Drive FAQs
Where do I find new members? Prospective members can be non-members attending chapter meetings, fellow engineers at work or other stations, suppliers or educators.
How do I get credit for new members? Direct prospective members to the SBE website to join online or provide them with a copy of the membership application and ask him/her to fill in your name on the line “Sponsor’s Name/Who introduced you to SBE.” Once the new member’s membership application has been approved, your name will be placed in the prize drawing, which takes place in June 2020.
Official Rules: Only members of the SBE in good standing (national dues paid) are eligible. All applications are subject to approval by the admissions committee per the SBE By-laws. Only sponsorships of new applications for Member, Associate Member and Sustaining Members are eligible for the prize drawings. Each approved application will earn $5 off the recruiter’s 2021 membership dues, up to $25. Each new member application may have only one sponsor. Applications must be received at the SBE National Office between March 1 and May 31, 2020, to be eligible. Drawing for all prizes will be completed by June 15, 2020. Winners will be notified by mail. Grand prize winner may choose $500 cash in lieu of the trip package. There are no other prize substitutions. Winners are responsible for any taxes on prizes. Employees of the SBE and their family members are not eligible to win. Contest void where prohibited. Entrants agree that their name and likeness may be used by the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Inc. for promotional purposes.
