Volunteer Opportunities:

Workshop Leader
Workshop Team Member
Student Panel Moderator
Student Panel Participant
Curriculum Designer
Girl Planning Committee
Behind the Scenes Tasks

Workshop Leader

• Coordinate a 2-3 member team which will direct a hands-on workshop
• Participate in workshop during Summer Week
• Coordinate and attend 1-2 meetings
• Attend mandatory orientation/training meetings
• 6-10 hour time commitment

• Ability to oordinate a team of professional women
• Interest in and ability to work with adolescent girls
• Experience or interest in group facilitation, cooperative and hands-on learning methods

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Workshop Team Member 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work in a 2-3 member team which will direct a hands-on workshop
• Participate in workshop during  Summer Week
• Attend 1-2 meetings
• Attend mandatory orientation/training meeting
• 4-6 hour time commitment

• Ability to work on a team with other professional women
• Interest in and ability to work with adolescent girls
• Experience or interest in group facilitation, cooperative and hands-on learning methods

SIGN UP!!!   Send email to swegs@getset.org  

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Student Panel Moderator 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Making short into remarks about why we have the panel at Summer Week
• Welcoming the college students
• Setting the ground rules for the panel, e.g. each panelist intro self by telling name, school, year, major, most interesting experience so far; intros get 2min each (for example)
• Opening it up for questions from the Get SET girls
• attend mandatory orientation/training meeting
• 4-6 hour time commitment

• Interest in and ability to work with adolescent girls
• Experience or interest in group facilitation

Student Panel Participant 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Sit on our Student Panel at Summer Week
• Share how you are financing your college education (loans, Financial Aid package, scholarship, parents, jobs, etc.)
• Share your college experiences to-date (how you like your classes, the teachers, living in the dorms, the dating life, are you doing community work, working, in clubs? etc.)
• Share what your major is and why you chose it
• Share what you wished you had known in high school to help you prepare for college
• 2-3 hour time commitment

• Interest in and ability to work with adolescent girls
• Currently enrolled in a math, science, or engineering discipline in a college or university
• Ability to be candid and a role model for girls

Curriculum Designer   

 RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate as part of a team which will develop hands-on curriculum for Summer Week. Possible topics:  chemistry, physics, Internet creative projects.
• Attend 1-2 meetings with other team members
• 6-10 hour time commitment 

• experience or interest in curriculum design and/or practical applications of theoretical concepts

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Girl Planning Commitee 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with a small group of participants to organize late afternoon and evening activities during Summer Week
• Participate in one or more afternoons/evenings of Summer Week
• Coordinate and attend 1-2 meetings
• Attend mandatory orientation/training meeting
• 4-8 hour time commitment

SKILLS

• Ability and interest in working with adolescent girls on developing planning and leadership skills

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Behind the Scenes

Standing up in front of groups of people is not everyone's forte. If you prefer to work behind the scenes, you can still help Get SET! Let us know which of these tasks interests you.

TASKS (Choose one or many; approved purchases are reimbursed)

• Getting T-shirts for the students
• Taking photos during the week
• Arranging transportation for off-campus trips
• Arranging plant trip
• Arranging UCB trip
• Arranging neat stuff to do on the campus
• Producing certificates (for students and volunteers)
• Producing the Summer Week Program Guide (for parents and students)
• Getting & delivering snacks (if girls on planning committee can't drive)
• Purchasing award gifts for the girls
• Wrapping gifts and delivering to banquet
• Purchasing supplies for workshop leaders
  
• Writing funding proposals (conform a base proposal to meet a funders format)

REQUIREMENTS

• Doing what you say you are going to do; or letting us know if something comes up
• Attend mandatory orientation/training meetings

SIGN UP!!!   Send e-mail to swegs@getset.org  

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