"The Beacon Option"
This sample handout illustrates how you can encourage students to submit their classwork as Beacon entries.
"Preparing for Beacon: Mentoring High-Achieving Students at the Two-Year College"
This article, written by a co-director of Beacon 2008, outlines some of the procedures and the rewards that come with mentoring Beacon entrants.
The following links contain PDF files of the archived proceedings of past conferences.