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1 person is interested
Work with a Science Lab to Create Lessons for Middle School/High Bridge/Bronx/Friday/1-2 hr per week
ORGANIZATION: The City Tutors
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1 person is interested
The City Tutors (CT) is looking for science tutors to be a content lead who can develop possible topics for discussion in nanotechnology and renewable energy fields (this is where a science student would fit in), and furthermore to be able to present these topics to middle school students on Friday afternoons at the 218 Rafael Hernandez Middle School for the Fall 2019 semester.
About
The City Tutors (CT) is a volunteer tutoring program and non-profit organization with a goal to provide meaningful opportunities for volunteers to build professional skills and share their knowledge while helping to enhance and expand academic support to students in underserved programs around NYC. The City Tutors offers tutoring support and career development initiatives across four of the five boroughs as well as delivering academic services to all areas within the CCNY umbrella.
The City Tutors is currently partnered with the Eisele Research Group, a nanotechnology group based out of the Center for Discovery and Innovation at the City College of New York. As part of a recently awarded NSF grant to the Eisele Research Group, an outreach program was created to present scientific concepts to students and communities throughout the city. The overall goal of this project is to increase public understanding of nanotechnology, and how fundamental research in nanoscience can pave the way to new renewable energy technologies. Increased public knowledge and engagement is only possible when the information is clearly disseminated to the public regarding what kind of research is being done and how the research can contribute to our society. Unfortunately, communicating and promoting science beyond a scientific audience proves challenging, a task that researchers themselves are not trained for. This project then aims to be a part of that change. The Eisele Group is partnering with Bronx Lacrosse, a student retention and support program that uses lacrosse as a vehicle to empower students both in and outside the classroom. Originally starting at the Highbridge Green School, it has expanded to support other middle schools within the Bronx Community.
The project entails the creation of intriguing, simple to understand science lessons and activities for a middle school audience as part of a pilot initiative. The goal is to produce a minimum of 10 lessons/activities for students that will contain elements of professional development, conceptualization, lesson planning, presentation, and post-presentation phases, with periodic elements of sample student testing and evaluation. Members of the lab will use these short lessons/activities when giving talks about their work, and the activities will be made available to high school and undergraduate instructors.
Learn more about the Eisele Group here:
https://eiselegroup.com/
Learn more about Bronx Lacrosse here:
https://bronxlacrosse.org/
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About The City Tutors
Location:
92-24 Queens Boulevard, Rego Park, NY 11374, US
Mission Statement
The City Tutors (CT) is a NYC wide volunteer tutoring and mentoring hub that ensures historically underserved communities have equitable access to resources that are fundamental to educational and professional success.
Description
Our vision is to create a hub where any New Yorker can leverage their academic and professional skills and content knowledge to uplift their community and where disadvantaged communities can access resources that they need.
We see tutoring as a way to empower individuals to work in the community. We provide flexible times, convenient locations, and meaningful experiences, allowing more community members to participate and to support community partners for longer.
We believe tutoring must be a reflective act that both helps strengthen individuals' support of others and helps individuals better understand themselves. We provide our tutors with access to industry mentors who help connect the work they are doing with us with what they've done in the past and what they want to do in the future.
We believe in leveraging the workforce skills of our community of volunteers by pairing those in need of professional support with industry experts who can provide insight into specific fields and feedback on professional documents.
We see the City Tutors as an opportunity to bring people together under a common purpose. We want like-minded individuals to feel they are part of a fellowship, to build their network with people within their discipline, and to expand the disciplines and industries they've been exposed to.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1220 Gerard AveBronx, NY 10452
DATE POSTED
October 18, 2019
SKILLS
- Math / Science Instruction
- Environmental Science
- Research
- STEM
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 1 - 2 hours every Friday
- Meeting with Eisele Research Group and City Tutors on semi-regular basis.