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Volunteer Exchange
Submitted by Lady Gywanna on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 7:55am. Youth Volunteers

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.
volunteering
Submitted by Lady Gywanna on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 4:11pm. Youth Volunteers
Team Building
Submitted by Lady Gywanna on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 12:47pm. Youth VolunteersYouth Opportunities
Submitted by Lady Gywanna on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 8:02am. Youth VolunteersWhat 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:-)
Professional Development Training
Submitted by Lady Gywanna on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 3:39pm. Youth VolunteersThe 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.



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