Youth Volunteers

The Saint Louis Science Center’s Youth Volunteer Program is designed to give teenagers, ages 13-18, meaningful experiences. Youth volunteers will work as valued staff throughout the museum. In order to increase his or her understanding of work-based skills, youth volunteers are constantly exposed to professional development opportunities that encourage workplace learning.  SCANS, which stand for the Department of Labor’s Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, is a set of skills that are taught to Youth Volunteers through a combination of simulations and written work.  SCANS skills include:

1. Communication strategies,
2. Understanding workplace systems,
3. Resource management,
4. Information interpretation, and
5. Increasing technological knowledge.