Boston University student Sophie Miller, chairwoman for the Students for Scott Brown Coalition, said that even for student volunteers the campaign is a 24/7 job.

“On a campaign, there’s an end goal,” the College of Arts and Sciences junior said, “and you need to figure out the best way to achieve it.”

Miller is one of many student volunteers who volunteer on political campaigns as November elections near. While political candidates seek to mobilize the youth vote before elections, students such as Miller set themselves apart as committed volunteers and leaders in political campaigns.

In 2008, young people across the nation voted and gave their time as “enthusiastic campaign volunteers,” according to the Pew Research Center.

U.S. President Barack Obama gathered 66 percent of the youth vote in the 2008 presidential election, according to Pew statistics.

That same election garnered 2 million more young voters than in 2004, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement.

Evan Kenney, a freshman at Fitchburg State University, was the youngest delegate sent to the Republican National Convention, which he described as “absolutely incredible.”

“It’s an experience I can take with me for the rest of my life,” Kenney said.

Kenney, who volunteered for the Ron Paul Liberty Slate, said his summer was “completely consumed.” He spent on average four to eight hours a day contributing to the campaign.

Katie Regan, chairman of Massachusetts Young Republicans, said students donate so much of their time to these campaigns because they enjoy getting experience in the field.

“No matter what political party you align yourself with, it’s fun,” Regan said. “You get to meet people, and I think that it’s fun to be part of the team.”

Regan said students’ experience on these campaigns is a job interview of sorts because candidates notice student’s hard work.

“I think it’s good to start young, so candidates can meet you and get an idea of your hard work and dedication and commitment,” Regan said.

The average volunteer does phone banking, which usually runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and donates about 10 hours a week to working on a campaign, she said.

Students work with social media, she said, which can be done at any time of the day.

“I think it’s good for young people to get involved in campaigns so they can understand the political process, and getting involved gets people to really understand the issues,” she said.

Miller said the campaign is a continuous commitment.

“You’re on call at any given moment,” she said.

Jonathan Dame, a Boston College junior and the communications director for the College Democrats of Massachusetts, said he has volunteered with the Obama and Elizabeth Warren campaigns in the past.

Dame said he is mainly engaged in the political community through the BC and Massachusetts College Democrats, but he has helped knock on doors and make phone calls.

“I think that the young people have the most at stake in the election that’s taking place because we are the one who are going to be around the longest and experience the effects of policies being shaped today,” he said.

Dame said it is really important that college students are getting involved and standing up for their rights.

Dame spends about 10 hours a week involved in politics, he said.

“I’ve learned about how to talk to people about issues,” he said. “Just knocking on doors and making phone calls, you talk to a lot of voters and you hear what they have to say, and you learn how to engage with someone about the candidate.”

Interns working for the Massachusetts Democratic Party were unable to comment on the work that they do because they signed non-disclosure agreements, said Kevin Franck, the communications director for the Massachusetts Democratic Party.

But Franck also said it is important for young people to get involved during the election season.

As the country looks to the future, there might not be any group who has more stake in this election than young people, he said.

Voters aged 18 to 29 were 24 percent of the electorate in 2011, according to Young Democrats of America.

“I have so much more faith in the Republican party now [that] I [have] met so many wonderful people,” Kenney said.