- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Amazing Mile Children's Run
ORGANIZATION: AMAZEMENT SQUARE
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Our annual Amazing Mile Children's Run will take place this year on Friday, September 26th from 4pm-8pm. Volunteers can sign up and choose to set up the event beforehand, help carry out our Family Festival, line the racecourse and provide direction for the runners, and clean up afterwards.
3 Shifts
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Fri Sep 26, 2025
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01:00 PM to 04:00 PM EST
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Spots available: 10+
Setup
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Fri Sep 26, 2025
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04:00 PM to 08:00 PM EST
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Spots available: 8
Family Festival programs
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Fri Sep 26, 2025
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05:30 PM to 09:00 PM EST
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Spots available: 10+
Races/cleanup
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About AMAZEMENT SQUARE
Location:
27 9TH ST, LYNCHBURG, VA 24504, US
Mission Statement
AMAZEMENT SQUARE CULTIVATES AN ENGAGED COMMUNITY OF LIFELONG LEARNERS BY SPARKING IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY, AND CURIOSITY.
Description
As a Children’s Interactive Museum, we focus on interacting and working with children through various exhibits, programs, and events. We are also a certified Autism Center!
Museum Educators: Exhibit educators work with Museum Educators to help museum visitors explore and understand hands-on, interactive exhibits in eight multidisciplinary galleries.
Exhibit Maintenance: Duties may include cleaning exhibit environments, touch-up painting, or skilled exhibit fabrication. Basic art skills are required due to paint touch-ups and other art-related projects. Shifts are available Monday and Tuesday from 9 am- 5 pm.
Special Event: Special events volunteers participate in the museum’s outreach, educational, or fundraising events such as the Museum After Dark, Amazing Mile Children’s Run, Ugly Bug Ball, and Children’s Holiday Festival.
Museum Shop Volunteer: Museum shop volunteers will assist the shop manager in keeping everything stocked and organized, assist guests with purchases from finding products to meet their needs to check them out at the register.
Facilities: Facilities entails painting, staining, cleaning, setting up and tearing down from rentals, organizing facilities-related inventory, landscape care (weeds, branches, snow), and moving facilities-related items to and from storage.
CAUSE AREAS
Arts & Culture,
Children & Youth,
Sports & Recreation
WHEN
Fri Sep 26, 2025
01:00 PM - 09:00 PM
This opportunity has 3 shifts
WHERE
27th 9th St.Lynchburg, VA 24504
(37.35108 ,-79.0306 )
DATE POSTED
June 12, 2025
SKILLS
- Mentoring
- Teaching / Instruction
- Child Development
- People Skills
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- Public Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- This is a Done in a Day opportunity and there is no prior training or ongoing commitment needed.
- Must be at least 14
- 3-5 hours