A low-key indoor volunteer opportunity for teams who enjoy organization, working together towards a common goal, and supporting afterschool science enrichment for BIPOC youth. Together we will be counting, bundling, cutting, labeling, boxing, and organizing materials for 60 science kits. Music and refreshments are provided, as is this great platform for team building!
AKA Science is an afterschool kit-based science enrichment program that serves SUN Community Schools and Boys & Girls Clubs in Portland. Twice per year we gather our supplies and, for two weeks, we work alongside hundreds of corporate and community volunteers to build our science kits that will serve 1,400 under-resourced students annually. **Our next set of kit building sessions will begin in October.** We build kits for two topics a year, varying from Biology and Chemistry, Forces & Motion and Color & Light, Forensic Science and Earth Science, and Engineering and Environmental Science. We typically offer two 3-hour shifts per day (morning and afternoon) and provide both music and refreshments. Volunteers are the life-blood of our program and we often see the same groups returning to help build kits year after year as it is a great teambuilding tradition. And, we love to make your volunteer event a fun, productive, and meaningful experience!
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AKA Science is a program of Impact NW - an antiracist social-service nonprofit committed to ending houselessness in Portland. AKA Science supports Impact NW's mission by providing safe, fun, hands-on afterschool STEM enrichment to hundreds of under-resourced elementary and middle school youths at more than 60 Portland SUN Community Schools and Boys & Girls Clubs. Primarily serving BIPOC youth in high poverty areas, AKA Science provides accessible, culturally responsive and trauma-informed opportunities for students to engage in career-building STEM education through exciting kits such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Earth Science, and Environmental Science. Highly effective with proven results, AKA Science results in 90% of its participants demonstrating improved attitudes about science and increased knowledge of science concepts. Visit www.impactnw.org or www.akascience.org for more info!
Volunteers support Impact NW's mission by helping AKA Science build 60 science kits twice per year. Kit building is a fun way for teams to come together to ensure more than 1,400 students gain access to our dynamic program. Whether they are counting, bundling, measuring, cutting, bagging, labeling or boxing supplies- every moment of volunteer time contributes to the success of AKA Science and the communities who need it the most. Volunteers also help through planned giving, whether by employee giving programs or individual or group donations. Volunteers can visit www.impactnw.org or www.akascience.org for more info!
AKA Science website
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