Alumni Volunteer Opportunities
For general questions about our volunteer opportunities, please contact Amanda Gruhl.
Volunteer Opportunities in Other K-12 Organizations
Volunteering Tips
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Volunteer Events
Past event: MIT Alumni Leadership Conference
September 25, 2009 1:45-3:00pm MIT Campus
Interested in K-12 education? Attend the Alumni Association workshop, MIT’s Institutional Initiatives: Aligning Local Activities, at the MIT Alumni Leadership Conference to learn how to incorporate K-12 themes and other MIT initiatives into local events and to gain interest among fellow alumni.
Past Event: Cape Ann Alumni Gathering
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center March 12th, 2009
Cape Ann Alumni were invited to an alumni gathering in Gloucester to mingle with other local alums and learn more about the Gloucester – MIT Edgerton Center pilot project. We’ve been working with the Gloucester Public Schools to share MIT professional development, hands-on lessons, and student programs to enhance science and engineering education. The next phase of the project is to partner interested alums with schools to share their knowledge of and enthusiasm for science and engineering with students. Alumni could assist an afterschool club on robotics, give a talk to a class about why they like science, advise a team working on solar energy for the school, tutor, or volunteer in a technology lab. This gathering was a time to mingle, understand more about the bigger project, and learn some best practices for helping in schools. Some alumni offered to speak at a 6th grade career day on April 3rd, so we offered some materials for preparing an engaging presentation.
If you are interested in helping with our pilot project in Gloucester, email Amanda Gruhl or Jessica Garrett.
Past Event: Lexington Elementary Schools and Boston Museum of Science (Engineering is Elementary) Workshop
February 26, 2009
Lexington Public Schools, Mind and Hand Alliance, and the MIT Alumni Association are supporting a new engineering curriculum in the third grade. This elementary school curriculum is from the NSF-supported Museum of Science “Engineering is Elementary” (EiE) program. Students read a story about a child in another country and then work on the same engineering problem described in the story using hands-on activities for the classroom.
Following an EiE intro session in December with the Lexington elementary school teachers, half of the third grade teachers signed up to pilot this curriculum in the spring. The teachers’ high interest was in part stirred by the information that local MIT volunteers would be invited to assist them in piloting this activity!
MIT alumni volunteers and the third grade teachers were introduced to the curriculum in a 2 hour, Museum of Science training session on Feb 26th in Lexington. We matched volunteers to teachers, and the alumni are now helping with the EiE curriculum in classrooms for 2-3 days during the spring semester.
We feel this has been a very positive and successful pilot, and all third grade teachers will use the EiE curriculum in their classrooms next year, with the help of MIT alumni! For more information about the curriculum, visit the Museum of Science EiE website
Past event: Alumni Volunteer Kickoff Reception
November 20th, 2008
