About the Role
We seek short-term volunteers who work within technology fields to mentor youth and young adults in our programs. Duration: 2-10 hours per event (Mainly remote)
Description
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We seek short-term volunteers who work within technology fields to mentor youth and young adults in our programs. Duration: 2-10 hours per event (Mainly remote)
Please support the next generation of technology innovators by signing up as a volunteer mentor, and we will follow up with more information for volunteer intake and onboarding.
Various ways to support (optional):
• Estimate 2-10 hours per event. Engage with our missions further by supporting group events (mainly virtual and planned in collaboration with the program coordinator.)
• Plan and facilitate a workshop topic
• Participate as a Guest speaker, such as a career panelist,
• Participate as a Keynote speaker such as motivational speakers or facilitating discussions in identified needs such as AI Racism, Deep Learning, and the effects on BIPOC, for example.
• Estimate 2-4 hours per event. If located near the Seattle area, there may be opportunities to attend in-person GOKiC group events with students planned in collaboration with the program coordinator, such as in-person mock interviewing or on-campus visits.
• Estimate 4-16 hours per event. Sign up as a coach for Youth Hackathons held by GOKiC twice a year
• GOKiC will organize hackathons - a 24- hour design sprint to come together as a community to create new tech where mentors can sign up to coach students during this event.
• Estimate 4-16 hours per event. Sign up as a coach for Youth Hackathons held by GOKiC twice a year
• GOKiC will organize hackathons - a 24- hour design sprint to come together as a community to create new tech where mentors can sign up to coach students during this event.
Are you interested in becoming an ongoing mentor to support a student? Check out our other volunteer opportunity on Benevity "2022 Volunteer Mentor: Ongoing Youth Mentorship (Virtual)"
Students are participating in a GOKiC program offering the following core areas:
• Project-based skill-building through a curriculum centered around competitive programming and social justice.
• Collective application to internships
Technical mentorship:
• Interpersonal professional skill development:
• Application of social justice theory:
• Conferences and Workshops:
• Hackathons
About the Company
The mission of Geeking Out Kids of Color (GOKiC) is the liberation of youth of color by creating decolonized tech education and providing mentorship to nurture leaders of change. Across all the programs, GOKiC engages BIPOC youth with the goal of creating actual career and life choices for them based on their passion, interests, and direction they choose to pursue. GOKiC teaches technology education through a critical race and gender theory framework as a way for BIPOC youth to build new technology pathways to empower their community, dismantle oppressive systems that create barriers, and promote allyship to empower youth from marginalized groups to pursue life choices. GOKiC builds and sustains youth programs that are rooted in community, computer science, and consciousness.