Opportunities From: Berkeley Lab

Volunteer: Be a Presenter for Reverse Science Fair

Remember grade school science fairs? Well, the Lab is taking that format and turning it on its head with volunteer researchers and STEM professionals presenting their work for evaluation by a team of middle school judges. 

On the following dates, in coordination with Berkeley Lab's Early Career ERG, K-12 Programs, and the Community Resources for Science organization, we are looking for STEM and STEM-adjacent professionals to visit Middle Schools and present their 'science projects' for 8th grade students to view and judge. 



More Details: 

This is an in-person event at Berkeley and Oakland Middle Schools, We will have 2, 3 hours sessions. Volunteers are welcome to join ONE of these sessions as the times overlap.  Students will talk to 4 different presenters and take notes to help them judge the best 'science fair project'.  Volunteers will need to travel to and from the middle school. Contact Elina D Rios at erios@lbl.gov if you need help with transportation or have any other questions. Contact Elina D Rios at erios@lbl.gov for a copy of a recording of the previous info sessions. Contact Corbin Shatto at cshatto@lbl.gov for any questions about the event


Next opportunity:

November 17 & 18th - Longfellow Middle School (Berkeley)

January 28th - Claremont Middle School (Oakland)

February 23rd & 24th - Martin Luther King Middle School (Berkeley)

March 23rd - Frick Middle School (Oakland)

April 13th - Willard Middle School (Berkeley)

More schools to be added soon

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Remember grade school science fairs? Well, the Lab is taking that format and turning it on its head with volunteer researchers and STEM professionals presenting their work for evaluation by a team of middle school judges. 

On the following dates, in coordination with Berkeley Lab's Early Career ERG, K-12 Programs, and the Community Resources for Science organization, we are looking for STEM and STEM-adjacent professionals to visit Middle Schools and present their 'science projects' for 8th grade students to view and judge. 



More Details: 

This is an in-person event at Berkeley and Oakland Middle Schools, We will have 2, 3 hours sessions. Volunteers are welcome to join ONE of these sessions as the times overlap.  Students will talk to 4 different presenters and take notes to help them judge the best 'science fair project'.  Volunteers will need to travel to and from the middle school. Contact Elina D Rios at erios@lbl.gov if you need help with transportation or have any other questions. Contact Elina D Rios at erios@lbl.gov for a copy of a recording of the previous info sessions. Contact Corbin Shatto at cshatto@lbl.gov for any questions about the event


Next opportunity:

November 17 & 18th - Longfellow Middle School (Berkeley)

January 28th - Claremont Middle School (Oakland)

February 23rd & 24th - Martin Luther King Middle School (Berkeley)

March 23rd - Frick Middle School (Oakland)

April 13th - Willard Middle School (Berkeley)

More schools to be added soon

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Multiple Shifts Available

Zip Code: 94701

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Virtual Graders Needed- Nuclear Science Day Scout Worksheets 2025

Help scouts get their merit badges by grading their worksheet responses!  
Following Nuclear Science Day scouts are asked to fill in a worksheet to receive their merit badge that reinforces concepts and facts about nuclear science. The worksheet contains links to resources scouts can use and is a mix of multiple choice questions and short answers.   
The multiple choice questions are graded automatically. Volunteers are needed to grade the short answers. Answers are graded as pass/no pass where best effort is used as the criteria. Having a nuclear science background is not required. A grading guide with examples for each question will be provided and the worksheet creators will be available for the duration of the time to provide guidance.   
Volunteers will get 2 weeks to grade worksheets and due by November 1, 2025. 

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Help scouts get their merit badges by grading their worksheet responses!  
Following Nuclear Science Day scouts are asked to fill in a worksheet to receive their merit badge that reinforces concepts and facts about nuclear science. The worksheet contains links to resources scouts can use and is a mix of multiple choice questions and short answers.   
The multiple choice questions are graded automatically. Volunteers are needed to grade the short answers. Answers are graded as pass/no pass where best effort is used as the criteria. Having a nuclear science background is not required. A grading guide with examples for each question will be provided and the worksheet creators will be available for the duration of the time to provide guidance.   
Volunteers will get 2 weeks to grade worksheets and due by November 1, 2025. 

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Runs Until Oct 31, 2025

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Support college and career workshops for BLDAP high school students 2025-2026

The Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprenticeship Program (BLDAP) is a project-based high school STEM program designed to help participants develop 21st century skills, learn about Berkeley Lab’s research activities, receive college and career guidance, and develop a STEM network in a real-life work environment. BLDAP seeks to remove systemic barriers, such as a lack of access to professional networks and work-based opportunities, by providing strong connections to the scientific community at Berkeley Lab.  
The BLDAP 2025 cohort (21 students) will meet monthly (October - March) on Sundays at 10am (times may vary for volunteers; please see shifts). They will go through various workshops navigating college and career topics. The Berkeley Lab K-12 team is seeking volunteers to help review college applications, resumes, conduct mock interviews, and more.  
Topics and volunteer needs for each month's workshop are the following: October 25 - STEM Career Pathways (10:30 - 11:30am; hybrid opportunity): Students will interview volunteers to learn about their career pathways and create a career map November 23- College Applications Review (10:30 - 11:30am): Volunteers will read through students' written work for college applications and give suggestions and feedback December 14- Resumes Review (asynchronous / review at own time): Volunteers will look through students' resumes and give feedback  February 22- Mock Interviews (10:30 - 11:30am): Volunteers will conduct mock interviews with students (interview questions will be given ahead of time)  
Volunteers can sign up for any dates that work best for them. The workshops will be conducted virtually over Zoom.   
All volunteers participating in K-12 programs must complete an online working with minors course (~90 minutes), sign and submit a CANRA form, and pass a background check.
 
For any questions please contact K-12 Lead Education Facilitator, Corbin Shatto (cshatto@lbl.gov).

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

The Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprenticeship Program (BLDAP) is a project-based high school STEM program designed to help participants develop 21st century skills, learn about Berkeley Lab’s research activities, receive college and career guidance, and develop a STEM network in a real-life work environment. BLDAP seeks to remove systemic barriers, such as a lack of access to professional networks and work-based opportunities, by providing strong connections to the scientific community at Berkeley Lab.  
The BLDAP 2025 cohort (21 students) will meet monthly (October - March) on Sundays at 10am (times may vary for volunteers; please see shifts). They will go through various workshops navigating college and career topics. The Berkeley Lab K-12 team is seeking volunteers to help review college applications, resumes, conduct mock interviews, and more.  
Topics and volunteer needs for each month's workshop are the following: October 25 - STEM Career Pathways (10:30 - 11:30am; hybrid opportunity): Students will interview volunteers to learn about their career pathways and create a career map November 23- College Applications Review (10:30 - 11:30am): Volunteers will read through students' written work for college applications and give suggestions and feedback December 14- Resumes Review (asynchronous / review at own time): Volunteers will look through students' resumes and give feedback  February 22- Mock Interviews (10:30 - 11:30am): Volunteers will conduct mock interviews with students (interview questions will be given ahead of time)  
Volunteers can sign up for any dates that work best for them. The workshops will be conducted virtually over Zoom.   
All volunteers participating in K-12 programs must complete an online working with minors course (~90 minutes), sign and submit a CANRA form, and pass a background check.
 
For any questions please contact K-12 Lead Education Facilitator, Corbin Shatto (cshatto@lbl.gov).

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Multiple Shifts Available

Allow Groups: Yes

Volunteer: Volunteer Call for the Annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts

We will be celebrating our 13th annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts Event at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Saturday, October 11, 2025.  This in-person event is designed for Scout Association youths in 8th grade or higher. 

 

We are looking for volunteers to help register and welcome troops, chaperone groups and support activities including: 

Building an electroscope - the Scouts will build an electroscope.  

Everyday Radioactivity - the Scouts will learn how to use a Geiger Counter

Building the atomic model - the Scouts will build nucleons (neutrons, protons) with quarks (marshmallows).  They will then combine the nucleons to form the hydrogen, deuterium and tritium nuclei.  The model will complete with an electron


Emission Spectra - The scouts will observe emission spectra of elements using diffraction gratings and a spectrometer.

Polarization Art - The scouts will experiment with tape to create patterns that can be viewed with polarizers.

Chaperone - a full day commitment leading groups to the different workshops. Basic knowledge of B50, B15, B91, B70A recommended. 

PLEASE REVIEW SHIFTS

8am-10:30am Registration & welcoming  10:30am - 1:30pm Activity support  1:30am - 4:30pm Activity support  10:30am - 4:30pm Chaperone 

*Interested in volunteering for ALS tours? Sign up directly with Ina Reichel, ireichel@lbl.gov *

Lunch will be provided for those who volunteer the whole day (AM and PM shift). Volunteers are asked to wear an "Ambassador shirt" which will be provided for those who don't already have one. All volunteers will receive an event patch!

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

We will be celebrating our 13th annual Nuclear Science Day for Scouts Event at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Saturday, October 11, 2025.  This in-person event is designed for Scout Association youths in 8th grade or higher. 

 

We are looking for volunteers to help register and welcome troops, chaperone groups and support activities including: 

Building an electroscope - the Scouts will build an electroscope.  

Everyday Radioactivity - the Scouts will learn how to use a Geiger Counter

Building the atomic model - the Scouts will build nucleons (neutrons, protons) with quarks (marshmallows).  They will then combine the nucleons to form the hydrogen, deuterium and tritium nuclei.  The model will complete with an electron


Emission Spectra - The scouts will observe emission spectra of elements using diffraction gratings and a spectrometer.

Polarization Art - The scouts will experiment with tape to create patterns that can be viewed with polarizers.

Chaperone - a full day commitment leading groups to the different workshops. Basic knowledge of B50, B15, B91, B70A recommended. 

PLEASE REVIEW SHIFTS

8am-10:30am Registration & welcoming  10:30am - 1:30pm Activity support  1:30am - 4:30pm Activity support  10:30am - 4:30pm Chaperone 

*Interested in volunteering for ALS tours? Sign up directly with Ina Reichel, ireichel@lbl.gov *

Lunch will be provided for those who volunteer the whole day (AM and PM shift). Volunteers are asked to wear an "Ambassador shirt" which will be provided for those who don't already have one. All volunteers will receive an event patch!

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Multiple Shifts Available

Zip Code: 94720

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Assist with hands-on STEM activities with Bay Area 6th graders

This fall and spring, Berkeley Lab K-12 Programs will be hosting fun, hands-on STEM activities for 6th graders in the Bay Area.

This is an in-person opportunity. All activities will be led by the K-12 team. Volunteers will be asked to guide the students through the activities, no prior knowledge or experience is required.

Students will be participating in a number of activities that will allow them to use their observation skills. Possible activities include: 

 

What are Stars Made Of? (Astronomy and Spectroscopy Scientific Observations) - 40 minutes  In this activity, students will explore the different emission spectra of elements by observing heated gas elements (color) with diffraction gratings (or spectroscopes). Students will draw their observations on a handout. Then, students will use the emission spectra they've collected to decipher what elements exist in stars.  
Microscopic Explorations (Scientific Observations) - 40 minutes   In this activity, students use their observation skills to identify patterns, shapes, and materials using a microscope. Several activity stations are set up with activities and materials (fingerprinting, sand, salt, newsprint, fabric) that allow participants to see what's beyond the eye.   
Circuit Card (Electronics) - 30 minutes  Students get a short introduction to electronics and conductivity in this activity. Following a template, students are able to create a small circuit using copper tape, a button battery and LED. Once the circuit is created the light can be integrated with the picture of the advanced light source (ALS) on the opposite side of the circuit.    
Chibi Traffic Lights (Coding and Electronics) - 45 minutes In this activity, students get an introduction to coding and electronics. Students connect to a small microcontroller that allows them to control the built-in lights via programmable commands. They then will learn the basics behind how a traffic light is programmed and get a chance to create their own. 


Volunteers can sign up for any shift that best fits their schedule. Those that stay for the full day will receive lunch.  K-12 team members will be present to guide the facilitation.

For any questions, please contact K-12 Lead Education Facilitator, Corbin Shatto: cshatto@lbl.gov 

Locations will be updated as they are added to shifts: 

September 29th - Longfellow Middle School (Berkeley)

November 3rd & 4th - Willard Middle School (Berkeley)

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

This fall and spring, Berkeley Lab K-12 Programs will be hosting fun, hands-on STEM activities for 6th graders in the Bay Area.

This is an in-person opportunity. All activities will be led by the K-12 team. Volunteers will be asked to guide the students through the activities, no prior knowledge or experience is required.

Students will be participating in a number of activities that will allow them to use their observation skills. Possible activities include: 

 

What are Stars Made Of? (Astronomy and Spectroscopy Scientific Observations) - 40 minutes  In this activity, students will explore the different emission spectra of elements by observing heated gas elements (color) with diffraction gratings (or spectroscopes). Students will draw their observations on a handout. Then, students will use the emission spectra they've collected to decipher what elements exist in stars.  
Microscopic Explorations (Scientific Observations) - 40 minutes   In this activity, students use their observation skills to identify patterns, shapes, and materials using a microscope. Several activity stations are set up with activities and materials (fingerprinting, sand, salt, newsprint, fabric) that allow participants to see what's beyond the eye.   
Circuit Card (Electronics) - 30 minutes  Students get a short introduction to electronics and conductivity in this activity. Following a template, students are able to create a small circuit using copper tape, a button battery and LED. Once the circuit is created the light can be integrated with the picture of the advanced light source (ALS) on the opposite side of the circuit.    
Chibi Traffic Lights (Coding and Electronics) - 45 minutes In this activity, students get an introduction to coding and electronics. Students connect to a small microcontroller that allows them to control the built-in lights via programmable commands. They then will learn the basics behind how a traffic light is programmed and get a chance to create their own. 


Volunteers can sign up for any shift that best fits their schedule. Those that stay for the full day will receive lunch.  K-12 team members will be present to guide the facilitation.

For any questions, please contact K-12 Lead Education Facilitator, Corbin Shatto: cshatto@lbl.gov 

Locations will be updated as they are added to shifts: 

September 29th - Longfellow Middle School (Berkeley)

November 3rd & 4th - Willard Middle School (Berkeley)

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Multiple Shifts Available

Zip Code: 94705

Allow Groups: Yes

Volunteer: Seeking data science project mentors for BLDAP 2025-2026

The Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprenticeship Program (BLDAP) is a project-based high school STEM program designed to help participants develop 21st century skills, learn about Berkeley Lab’s research activities, receive college and career guidance, and develop a STEM network in a real-life work environment. BLDAP seeks to remove systemic barriers, such as a lack of access to professional networks and work-based opportunities, by providing strong connections to the scientific community at Berkeley Lab.  
The BLDAP 2025 cohort (21 students) will meet monthly (October - April) on Sunday afternoons or weeknights. In addition to college and career workshops, students will be working in teams to carry out a data science research project highlighting a community issue of their choice. The Berkeley Lab K-12 team is seeking mentors to check-in with the student team about once every other month to give feedback to their work and check on their progress. Check-ins will be conducted virtually over Zoom. We will try to pair mentors as a mentoring team.  
Mentors do not need to be data scientists - any experience working with data and data analysis is welcome! There will be an info session (October 14th at 10 am) to give an overview of the data science project. Most meetings will be held online unless indicated as hybrid.   
Check-in dates and project deliverables are as follows (please note that dates in January through April are subject to change): October 26 (hybrid): Meet mentees, refine research question, and data collection methods November 23 (check-in optional): Data collection ongoing December 14 (in-person; optional): Data collection ongoing; mentors are invited to join a lunch with mentees and BLDAP alumni January 25: Data collection done, data cleaning February 22 (check-in optional): Exploratory data analysis, data visualizations, data modeling March 22: Finalize data visualizations and findings for presentations April 19: Initial drafts of presentations ready for review May date TBD (in-person, optional for mentors): Presentations  
All volunteers participating in K-12 programs must complete an online working with minors course (~90 minutes), sign and submit a CANRA form, and pass a background check.
 
For any questions, please contact the K-12 Lead Education Facilitator, Corbin Shatto (cshatto@lbl.gov).

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

The Berkeley Lab Director’s Apprenticeship Program (BLDAP) is a project-based high school STEM program designed to help participants develop 21st century skills, learn about Berkeley Lab’s research activities, receive college and career guidance, and develop a STEM network in a real-life work environment. BLDAP seeks to remove systemic barriers, such as a lack of access to professional networks and work-based opportunities, by providing strong connections to the scientific community at Berkeley Lab.  
The BLDAP 2025 cohort (21 students) will meet monthly (October - April) on Sunday afternoons or weeknights. In addition to college and career workshops, students will be working in teams to carry out a data science research project highlighting a community issue of their choice. The Berkeley Lab K-12 team is seeking mentors to check-in with the student team about once every other month to give feedback to their work and check on their progress. Check-ins will be conducted virtually over Zoom. We will try to pair mentors as a mentoring team.  
Mentors do not need to be data scientists - any experience working with data and data analysis is welcome! There will be an info session (October 14th at 10 am) to give an overview of the data science project. Most meetings will be held online unless indicated as hybrid.   
Check-in dates and project deliverables are as follows (please note that dates in January through April are subject to change): October 26 (hybrid): Meet mentees, refine research question, and data collection methods November 23 (check-in optional): Data collection ongoing December 14 (in-person; optional): Data collection ongoing; mentors are invited to join a lunch with mentees and BLDAP alumni January 25: Data collection done, data cleaning February 22 (check-in optional): Exploratory data analysis, data visualizations, data modeling March 22: Finalize data visualizations and findings for presentations April 19: Initial drafts of presentations ready for review May date TBD (in-person, optional for mentors): Presentations  
All volunteers participating in K-12 programs must complete an online working with minors course (~90 minutes), sign and submit a CANRA form, and pass a background check.
 
For any questions, please contact the K-12 Lead Education Facilitator, Corbin Shatto (cshatto@lbl.gov).

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Runs Until May 30, 2026

Allow Groups: Yes

Volunteer: Become a Mentor: Help Students Learn About Robotics At Ygnacio Valley HS

Help Students Learn About Robotics

Ygnacio Valley High School’s robotics team in Concord needs mentors. You can make a huge difference in the lives of some really great kids — even if you’re not a robotics expert.

Why?
• Be the reason a student finishes high school, or goes to college, or likes learning
• Advance your own skills in EE, MechE, software, or project management
• Playing with robots is fun!


What qualifications do I need?
• No robotics or engineering knowledge required! If you’re able to circulate and help keep the students focused, or tell them where to put tools away, or remind them to wear their goggles in the lab, or figure out who isn’t asking for help they need, that’s valuable. If you’re good with project management, even better. Of course, if you want to learn about robotics so you can mentor more, we’re happy to teach you!
• Some availability 3:45pm-6pm on weekdays. We suspect this will be the sticking point for most people. See “What’s Involved” below for details.
• Reliability and communication. If you pride yourself on doing what you say you will, and on letting others know in advance when you won’t be able to deliver (because it happens to everyone), you’ll be a huge help to our understaffed team!


More Info
FIRST (“For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”, www.firstinspires.org) promotes STEM education by sponsoring robotics competitions at several levels, culminating with the First Robotics Competition (FRC) for high school students.

YVHS created an FRC team, named Project 212, in 2018. We lost some institutional knowledge with the pandemic, but gained another mentor in 2022. Now our founding mentor is moving out of state, and our new mentor needs some help.

The FRC season involves teaching students engineering principles, lab safety, proper use of power tools, and many other skills from September through December. In early January, the rules for the new year’s competition are announced. Robots will compete in a
game with new rules, completely different from the previous year. In only 6-8 weeks, each team will figure out a game strategy, figure out how to build a robot to implement that strategy, program and debug their robot, and then compete against other teams. The robots
are entirely student-designed and student-built: Mentors only advise – we aren’t allowed to build, repair, program, or design any robots that compete. It’s impressive and inspirational to watch students take on that challenging timeline and build robots that work!


What’s involved?
• Project 212 meets after school Mondays and Fridays from 3:45pm-6pm (ish). It would be great if you could generally attend at least twice a month. (Arriving late or leaving early is fine.)
• During the “build season” (January through March), we also meet after school on Wednesdays, and also for 8 hours on Saturdays. You aren’t expected to be there every Saturday start to finish, but it’s valuable if you can show up more to help.
• Not required, but fun: Attend competitions with the students and cheer like crazy! (And, yes, help with team logistics.)


Sounds great! How do I get more info?
Please note: This is not a Berkeley Lab hosted program but through a third party (Ygnacio Valley HS). Please email Alyssa Brand at abrand@lbl.gov or lead mentor Jon Solera at  jon@emufarm.org and learn more!

Be a mentor — make a difference

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Help Students Learn About Robotics

Ygnacio Valley High School’s robotics team in Concord needs mentors. You can make a huge difference in the lives of some really great kids — even if you’re not a robotics expert.

Why?
• Be the reason a student finishes high school, or goes to college, or likes learning
• Advance your own skills in EE, MechE, software, or project management
• Playing with robots is fun!


What qualifications do I need?
• No robotics or engineering knowledge required! If you’re able to circulate and help keep the students focused, or tell them where to put tools away, or remind them to wear their goggles in the lab, or figure out who isn’t asking for help they need, that’s valuable. If you’re good with project management, even better. Of course, if you want to learn about robotics so you can mentor more, we’re happy to teach you!
• Some availability 3:45pm-6pm on weekdays. We suspect this will be the sticking point for most people. See “What’s Involved” below for details.
• Reliability and communication. If you pride yourself on doing what you say you will, and on letting others know in advance when you won’t be able to deliver (because it happens to everyone), you’ll be a huge help to our understaffed team!


More Info
FIRST (“For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology”, www.firstinspires.org) promotes STEM education by sponsoring robotics competitions at several levels, culminating with the First Robotics Competition (FRC) for high school students.

YVHS created an FRC team, named Project 212, in 2018. We lost some institutional knowledge with the pandemic, but gained another mentor in 2022. Now our founding mentor is moving out of state, and our new mentor needs some help.

The FRC season involves teaching students engineering principles, lab safety, proper use of power tools, and many other skills from September through December. In early January, the rules for the new year’s competition are announced. Robots will compete in a
game with new rules, completely different from the previous year. In only 6-8 weeks, each team will figure out a game strategy, figure out how to build a robot to implement that strategy, program and debug their robot, and then compete against other teams. The robots
are entirely student-designed and student-built: Mentors only advise – we aren’t allowed to build, repair, program, or design any robots that compete. It’s impressive and inspirational to watch students take on that challenging timeline and build robots that work!


What’s involved?
• Project 212 meets after school Mondays and Fridays from 3:45pm-6pm (ish). It would be great if you could generally attend at least twice a month. (Arriving late or leaving early is fine.)
• During the “build season” (January through March), we also meet after school on Wednesdays, and also for 8 hours on Saturdays. You aren’t expected to be there every Saturday start to finish, but it’s valuable if you can show up more to help.
• Not required, but fun: Attend competitions with the students and cheer like crazy! (And, yes, help with team logistics.)


Sounds great! How do I get more info?
Please note: This is not a Berkeley Lab hosted program but through a third party (Ygnacio Valley HS). Please email Alyssa Brand at abrand@lbl.gov or lead mentor Jon Solera at  jon@emufarm.org and learn more!

Be a mentor — make a difference

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 94518

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Support the Pinole Valley Engineering Academy

This year, Pinole Valley High School is seeking volunteers from ALL areas of Engineering to support activities. These activities include speaking opportunities, mock interviews, judging and more.  

A highlighted event includes their Engineering Day/Week being held from September 25-29. Sophomores are taking a course called Principles of Engineering, where they are introduced  to as many engineering/trade disciplines as possible. They are looking for those that may be interested in attending as guest speakers.

Students will be divided into 4 groups, and each group will rotate rooms where they listen to a speaker or participate in a hands-on activity. During the rotations, speakers will stay in the same room. Each speaker would do a 30 minute presentation per group. The Academy would like to have 2 speakers per room to switch off. Hands-on activities are also very welcome.  

We have roughly 55 Sophomores in total. For details on our academy, see the attached.

If you are interested in supporting Engineering Day or supporting us in any other activities we may have, please complete the attached participating form. It includes the list of times for Engineering Week. 

 

Please respond to this note AND complete the participation form linked above. 



Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

This year, Pinole Valley High School is seeking volunteers from ALL areas of Engineering to support activities. These activities include speaking opportunities, mock interviews, judging and more.  

A highlighted event includes their Engineering Day/Week being held from September 25-29. Sophomores are taking a course called Principles of Engineering, where they are introduced  to as many engineering/trade disciplines as possible. They are looking for those that may be interested in attending as guest speakers.

Students will be divided into 4 groups, and each group will rotate rooms where they listen to a speaker or participate in a hands-on activity. During the rotations, speakers will stay in the same room. Each speaker would do a 30 minute presentation per group. The Academy would like to have 2 speakers per room to switch off. Hands-on activities are also very welcome.  

We have roughly 55 Sophomores in total. For details on our academy, see the attached.

If you are interested in supporting Engineering Day or supporting us in any other activities we may have, please complete the attached participating form. It includes the list of times for Engineering Week. 

 

Please respond to this note AND complete the participation form linked above. 



Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Allow Groups: No

Volunteer: Activities with K-12

This opportunity block will be used to capture activities that were not previously advertised on the galaxy digital site and/or are ongoing opportunities with community organizations.

Managers can assign this block to users for previous volunteer opportunity hours. Please respond to this opportunity and email Faith Dukes (fmdukes@lbl.gov) to update hours. 

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

This opportunity block will be used to capture activities that were not previously advertised on the galaxy digital site and/or are ongoing opportunities with community organizations.

Managers can assign this block to users for previous volunteer opportunity hours. Please respond to this opportunity and email Faith Dukes (fmdukes@lbl.gov) to update hours. 

Berkeley Lab Program: Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM Programs

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Allow Groups: No