Congrats to you all, and I commend you on wanting to get more involved in your respective Local Chapters! It's great way to network, get low cost/free CEU's. You may even find a mentor within your Chapter officers as well!
A few words of advice that I've learned over the years.
1. Your local chapter is here for YOU.
2. Always ask questions.
3. When you attend your first meeting, stand up, introduce yourself, tell a little bit about
yourself.
4. If you don't have any at this point, make up some business cards to hand out to other
members, your chapter officers etc...
5. You never know if one of the members is a prospective employer, hiring manager etc.
6. GET INVOLVED AT ANY LEVEL, whether it's offering to help set up , tear down, hand out
materials that will be used at the meeting.
When I first started attending my local chapter meetings I always sat in the back of the room, didn't talk to anyone, just observed and wanted to be involved but was afraid, after my 1st year of attending meetings, I would sit closer to the front, introduce myself to my neighbor. I even started emailing our chapter offices to ask questions that I wanted to know the answers to for myself. It eventually made me decide to run for a chapter officer position.
Best of luck to you.