GET INVOLVED
Mentor
Have you had a great mentor or teacher? Be that role model for a young person in our community and help shape the future of female and gender-expansive STEM professionals. Our mentors (who are undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and industry professionals), dedicate two hours a week to building meaningful, bidirectional relationships with participants, Junior Mentors, and fellow volunteers over an 8-week semester.
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Our programs provide participants with a supportive community that reinforces their potential and encourages them to explore and pursue STEM. We know that representation matters. Our participants need role models who look like them and share similar life experiences in order to be able to truly envision themselves in STEM. In other words, they need to see it to believe it.
For questions, contact Natasha Baptiste, Volunteer Manager, at nbaptiste@scienceclubforgirls.org
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Individual Volunteer
From skills-based volunteering, to helping with supplies and printing jobs, there are many ways you can contribute to SCFG's mission as an individual volunteer.
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Email us at volunteer@scienceclubforgirls.org
​https://bit.ly/VolunteerSCFG
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Group Volunteers Opportunities
On occasion, we organize group volunteer sessions so teams can work together to support our operations. Group volunteer activities include furniture building, technology set-up, building robots, organizing supplies, and more! Volunteer shifts are scheduled at our Cambridge office, storage unit on McGrath Highway (Somerville), or occasionally at your office.
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Suggested Donation
To sustain our free programs and ensure equitable access to volunteering, we rely on our corporate partners to underwrite our programs with a $1,000 donation when you volunteer with us. For non-corporate groups, we kindly request a $100-$1,000 suggested donation per group, based on your capacity to give.
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Sign-up to Learn More HERE or email us at volunteer@scienceclubforgirls.org
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Corporate Packing Partners
Science Club for Girls invites your company to become a Packing Partner by engaging in a fun, hands-on volunteering opportunity that impacts young people underrepresented in STEM! With your help, we'll ensure that every participant and mentor receives their own individual supply kit to participate in our hands-on, weekly Science Clubs.
As a Packing Partner, your company will sponsor one week of our 8-week curriculum.
Interest form or email Partnerships and Events Coordinator, Adina Chasan-Taber at achasan-taber@scienceclubforgirls.org
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Group & Corporate Volunteers
Volunteers are essential to everything we do! From mentorship to committee service and Packing Partner Sponsorship, Volunteers ensure we are able to provide all of our incredible programs for free in the communities where our girls and gender-expansive youth live and study.
What to Expect
On occasion, we are able to organize a group volunteer session so that teams can work together to support our operations, below you can also read about our Packing Project which supports our semester-based programs. In the past, group volunteer service activities have included furniture building, technology set-up, building robots, organizing supplies, and more! Volunteer shifts are scheduled at our Cambridge office, storage unit (McGrath Highway in Somerville), or on occasion - at your office! We can usually accommodate groups of 8-10 adults.
All volunteer service activities include a presentation on Science Club for Girls, our mission, and our vision for transforming the face of STEM. This quick presentation will put into context the work you will do during your volunteer service.
Suggested Donation
To sustain our free programs and ensure equitable access to volunteering, we rely on our corporate partners to underwrite our programs by making a $1,000 donation when you volunteer with us. For non-corporate groups (faith-based, teams, service organizations) we kindly request a $100-$1000 suggested donation per group, based on your capacity to give. Your support allows us to provide high-quality, experiential STEM-based mentorship programs for girls and gender-expansive youth for FREE.
Packing Project
Joining Science Club for Girls as a Packing Partner is a great way to get your company involved in a fun, hands-on volunteering opportunity that impacts girls and gender-expansive youth who are most underrepresented in STEM! With your help, we’ll ensure that every participant and mentor receive their own individual supply kit to participate in hands-on, weekly Science Clubs.
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The disciplines covered in the Spring 2024 Biotechnology Curriculum will include Life Sciences, Chemistry, Bioengineering, Biophysics, SOPs in the Life Science Industry, and Concepts around Instrumentation and Measurement. Participants will be exposed to DNA messaging and mutations, the concepts underlying enzymes and how enzymatic processes relate to everyday life. They will learn about the scientific principles of precision and accuracy in measurement, how density operates in centrifuges, and about design thinking in biotechnology engineering.
It's going to be another really exciting semester of learning and exploration for the girls and gender-expansive youth in our programs, and we'd love to include your company in it! As a Supplies Packing Sponsor, corporate partners are asked to support packing one week's worth of supplies for our 8-week curriculum for all 625 girls and 125+ mentors.
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There are many opportunities to get involved. Learn more below!