Family Science Nights

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Sierra Nevada Journeys helps schools organize Family Science Nights as a way to help kids fall in love with science and to increase parent engagement in education. Each Family Science Night can use 3-8 volunteers, and the time commitment is approximately two hours. Volunteers help parents and students engage in basic science exploration. During Family Science Nights, we offer 8-10 stations of simple science experiments testing different concepts and processes. Volunteers don’t need science knowledge to man the stations. Instructions are provided for how children should conduct the experiment along with follow up questions to ask them. The evening culminates with an exciting engineering contest judged by staff and volunteers.

Volunteer Activities:

• Help students with simple science experiments
• Help test every family’s engineering project
• Ask questions that engage students and
  parents
• Promote student achievement through
  encouraging feedback
• Inspire the next Marie Curie or Elon Musk by
  helping kids fall in love with science