Lady Gywanna's blog

 

 

My name is Oleg and I am a 17 years old foreign exchange-student from Germany. I came to the States in August and live since than in Kirkwood, MO. I also go to Kirkwood High School. My experience here in the States has been many-sided and I am glad to see what and to live the American dream and the American way of life, even though the food is too good for me. I have been to some states, like Oklahoma, Ohio and Illinois and was very excited to see people thinking and living a little different from state to state.I am senior in Kirkwood High School and still surprised by the school spirit and the many different course selections,...My exchange program requires me to have at least 16 hours of community service for the time period of 10 months. Once I was visiting the website of the Saint Louis Science Center, I saw the advertisement for Body World's 3 and was really excited about it because I am really interested in medicine and the human body. I thought automatically about doing my volunteer hours at the Science Center and found the volunteer section on the homepage. It was talking about volunteer possibilities at Body World's and many other interesting and educating opportunities so that I decided to participate at the Youth Volunteer Program. I met Lady Gywanna Jackson first through emails and she seemed to be a very caring person. "What a nice start", I thought.
Now, after 4 sessions of training I am really glad to be a volunteer at the SLSC and hope to have more opportunities and chances to give my good experiences back to other people.

I love working at the Science Center. It is a great experience. I love working with all different types of people. The Science Center is a fun place to learn about different things. Since I've been volunteering at the Science Center, I have learned about DNA and my name, the Chinese New Year, and much more. Like I said, it's great just being around different people and learning about different cultures. Working with Lady Gywanna is also fun. She is a good supervisor and does not constantly watch over you and look for something wrong in your work. She gives you liberty and is just a nice person all together. I also like working with the YES team. They are a fun group as well. I have met new people volunteering at the Science Center. I have met Emma, Davin, Leah, and Evan. Volunteering at the Science Center is by far the best experience I've had this year.- Kyra

 

This weeks ice breaker was given to us by Felix, The Trust Line Objective: To line up on a length of duct tape according to a specific criteria without falling off. To make things interesting, each successive round gets harder by not allowing the participants to talk or see. I think this was one of the favorite ice breakers, How do I know? The comments from the volunteers reflections. We once again collaborated with YES Teens in Design-It to complete a team building exercise, and boy was it fun! Brandon the supervisor for Design-It and myself got together to come up with a fun science/math activity that the groups partner on, and Keepin On Track was a good choice. So look for more youth volunteers and YES working together to better our communication skills, leadership skills and community outreach.

What could be more exciting than to have the chance to work with a large group of young men and women who volunteer for the Saint Louis Sciencenter.  This month for the youth volunteers has been a very busy one, our new sessions started Saturday Jan. 12, with a total of 38 teens.  Which has allowed me to add a a third PD training with a waiting list of 16. 

 The youth volunteers have many opportunities to work with the YES program on projects like Minority Scientists Showcase, H.O.T with Ted Wohlfarth. Higher-Order-Thinking Project the EnTeam Organization which offer activities designed to raise academic achievement by preparing seniors to develoop highter-order thinking skills while working with freshmen students. 

 We are working the Luner New Year Saturday Feb. 2, 10:00am-4:00pm and Sunday Feb. 3, 12:00pm-4:00pm.  So come out and see the Saint Louis Sciencenter youth volunteers in action:-)

The Saint Louis Sciencenter's Youth Volunteers participate in a series of five professional development training. These sessions are designed to provide Youth Volunteers with better training and supplemental resources to maximize and enhance the Youth Volunteer experience.  Professional development sessions must be completed before Youth Volunteers are assigned to a specific work station/duty.

We hold three session a year, Saturday Sept. 22, until Nov. 10, 2007 Saturday Jan. 12, until Saturday March 8, 2008, Saturday March 22, until Saturday May 10, 2008  At this time we have 73 active Saint Louis Sciencenter youth volunteers, serving in BW3, Human Adventure, facilitating Professional Development trainings, on the board of YTAB, Discovery Room, Cyberville, Planetarium, and Physical Science/Math Cart.

 For more information about the Youth Volunteer Program, please contact Lady Gywanna F. Jackson at 314.289.4434, gjackson@slsc.org.

 

         This is Nadia and im useing Gywanna's user because i dont have one yet. Anyway, today we did a really fun ice breaker about a dream vacation. First we had to close our eyes and picture we were on a vacation in the carribean or something like that. Then we had to keep our eyes closed and Gywanna would tell us step by step what to draw. She told us to draw an island in the middle of the paper, then she told us to draw a ship to the left of the island. She also said to draw a palm tree on the island, some fish in the sea, a sun, birds in the sky, a captain on the ship, and other things like that. After she was done telling us what to draw we got to open our eyes and see the crazy things we drew. Then we got diferent points for having the captain on t

My name is Demetrius and I'm here to tell you about our SCANS activity we did today. Today we were given scenarios about things that goes on daily at the Science Center. We learned how to handle these situations and remain calm. Also we learned how to approach visitors,co-workers,and our supervisors. This activity taught us how to get help when we are in over our heads and how to avoid situations like the ones we had before something bad happens. I had encountered many situations during my service at the Science Center but one mainly sticks out. One day there was a little kid just going around bouncing on the walls and just not following the directions for the activities. I ask the little boy if he could please calm down and please follow our rules. He got an attitude with me so I just went and asked his parents can they control him our they is going to be asked to leave.