Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Graduate Student Needed

Graduate Student Needed
Bridge to AP Chemistry

The STEM Center will be co-sponsoring a summer program for Boston Public Schools high school AP Chemistry students at Northeastern University on June 21-24 and August 30-31 from 7:30 am – 2:30 pm. We are looking to hire one to two graduate chemistry students to help with Bridge.

Your responsibilities will include helping to prep the lab materials prior to the start of Bridge (on your own schedule); set-up the lab materials for each session on each of the six days; explain the lab protocol to the students; monitor student learning and safe lab practice during the experiment; and clean up. Each AP Chemistry teacher is responsible for explaining the background knowledge related to the lab, monitoring student behavior and classroom management, and making sure that the students are engaged, learning, and safe.

Graduate students will be paid at a rate of $15.00 to attend 1 planning meeting, pre-Bridge lab prep, Bridge, and clean-up. We estimate that the total amount of time related to Bridge will be 45-50 hours.

If you are interested, please contact Allison Scheff at allison.scheff@umb.edu or by phone at 617.287.5632.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Volunteer Tutor Opportunity Available

A teacher at the Curley School is looking for a volunteer to work one on one with a 4th grade student. The volunteer will be tutoring the student in math during the school day. He is looking for the volunteer to commit to at least 1 day every week, either 8:30-10am, or 11:20am-12:20pm. If you are interested in this opportunity, please email an.harris@neu.edu for more details.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Early College Awareness Day


We will be hosting an Early College Awareness Day for 8th grade students on Friday, April 8th. We are looking for a diverse group of NU students to participate in a student panel. You will be answering questions proposed by the 8th graders about your college experience (academics, planning, college life, etc). If you would like to participate please go to the following link: www.surveymonkey.com/s/collegedaystudentpanel

If you would like to volunteer in another capacity (coordinating, supervising students, organizing) please email Andrew Harris at an.harris@neu.edu.


Thursday, February 10, 2011

February Vacation Opportunity!

Science Club for Girls is looking for Vacation Week volunteers to lead workshops at the Yawkey Boys & Girls Club Feb 22-25.

Science Club for Girls is a campus organization that helps expose young girls to the technology fields and provides them with role models in the field. Science Club for Girls is hosting a vacation week program that lets girls grades 1-5 do activities for three days in school and go on three field trips. This is a great opportunity for the girls but cannot be accomplished without the help of volunteers.

The success of Vacation Week relies on providing volunteers during three time slots over four days: February 22-25 from 8:30am-11am, 10am-12:30pm and 12:30pm-4:30pm

Each shift has multiple mentor scientists and helpes that will work with groups of 10-15 girls.

Get more information HERE.

All volutneers must fill out an application and CORI form. Boys are also welcome to volunteer! Contact Rachael Tompa (tompa.r@husky.neu.edu) or Rebecca Hansen (hansen.r@husky.neu.edu) to apply or ask any questions.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Curley Science Fair Support

The Curley K-8 School has postponed their Elementary Science Fair, the new date is Thursday, February 10. Volunteers are needed for judging projects from 8:45-2:30, among other support positions.

Contact Monique Markoff at the Curley (monique.markoff@gmail.com) and CC Lauren Horn from STEM (l.horn@neu.edu) if you want to participate.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Future City Volunteers - Saturday, January 22 Northeastern University

On Saturday, January 22, volunteers are needed for the Future City Competition for middle school students, who will come to the Curry Student Center to learn about engineering and construct "cities of the future"!

On February 5, volunteers are also needed for the Building Bridges Program for high school students, to help with set-up, check-in, and other items.

Please email Jillian Wudarczyk (J.Wudarczyk@neu.edu) to volunteer!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

February Break Volunteers needed

Science Club for Girls is looking for Vacation Week volunteers to lead workshops at the Yawkey Boys & Girls Club Feb 22-25.

Science Club for Girls is a campus organization that helps expose young girls to the technology fields and provides them with role models in the field. Science Club for Girls is hosting a vacation week program that lets girls grades 1-5 do activities for three days in school and go on three field trips. This is a great opportunity for the girls but cannot be accomplished without the help of volunteers.

The success of Vacation Week relies on providing volunteers during three time slots over four days: February 22-25 from 8:30am-11am, 10am-12:30pm and 12:30pm-4:30pm

Each shift has multiple mentor scientists and helpes that will work with groups of 10-15 girls.

Get more information HERE.

All volutneers must fill out an application and CORI form. Boys are also welcome to volunteer! Contact Rachael Tompa (tompa.r@husky.neu.edu) or Rebecca Hansen (hansen.r@husky.neu.edu) to apply or ask any questions.

Monday, December 6, 2010

January/February Volunteering

On Saturday, January 22, volunteers are needed for the Future City Competition for middle school students, who will come to the Curry Student Center to learn about engineering and construct "cities of the future"!

On February 5, volunteers are also needed for the Building Bridges Program for high school students, to help with set-up, check-in, and other items.

Please email s.crisp@neu.edu to volunteer!

Building Bridges Volunteer Opportunity for 12/10

We are hosting approximately 115 high school students on Friday Dec. 10, 2010 for our Bi-Annual Building Bridges program once again. The program provides a full day of interactive sessions across each of the engineering disciplines for high school students.

We are looking for NEU student volunteers escort a specific group to a session on campus and then drop them off, or be willing to pick up a specific group from a session on campus and take them to the next activity on campus.

The three pick-up and/or drop-off times are as follows:

(PLEASE NOTE: VOLUNTEERS ARE NOT NEEDED FOR THE FULL SESSION. ONLY TO DROP-OFF OR PICK-UP)

>>> Session A runs from 10:00am to 11:00am
>>> Session B runs from 11:15am to 12:15pm
>>> Session C runs from 1:45pm to 2:45pm

We also need at least 2-3 students to help with registration from 8:30am to 9:50am at the Cabral Center in the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute.

Please email s.crisp@neu.edu to volunteer!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Curley K-8 School's Math Night Volunteer Opportunity!


Good day,
Are you a passionate volunteer? Are you looking for an opportunity to help those in the community? If you are community oriented and believe in making a difference in that next generation of future leaders, then join the Center for STEM Education as we assist with The Curley K-8 School's Math Night! This event will take place on November 16, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Northeastern students make AMAZING volunteers, please join us as we assist with math homework for the students at The Curley K-8 school. If you are interested please email the Center for STEM Education at Stem.neu.edu or call us at (617) 373-8380. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Welcome to the Center for STEM Education's K-12 Outreach Blog!

WHO WE ARE: The Center for STEM Education is a Northeastern center focused on increasing opportunities and awareness in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields for students, especially those from backgrounds currently underrepresented in these careers. We work closely with our community to accomplish this goal, and have many volunteer opportunities both on campus and in the schools and communities in which we work.
VOLUNTEERING: Whether you are passionate about enhancing math and science education for K-12 students, want to get more involved in your community, or just want to fulfill some required volunteer hours, you've come to the right place! Read about our upcoming volunteer opportunities in the blog below, and then click on the link for the event in the right-hand column to register. We offer both ongoing and one-day volunteer opportunities, and new events are being added all of the time. We encourage you to also use this blog to discuss your current service experiences with other students at NU!

We also encourage you to refer to the resources provided to gain a deeper understanding of your role as a volunteer and the community that you will be serving.