Volunteer

We’re looking for STEM professionals who have a story worth sharing! Let us know if you are interested, and we will connect you with a professional speaking coach who will help you prepare to be a STEM Talk Speaker.

• Plan to spend approximately 2-3 hours preparing for your first speaking engagement. 
• We ask speakers to do at least two virtual STEM Talks each year.

Career Site Visits provide students with interactive experiences about the corporate host’s industry, workplace setting, job opportunities, and responsibilities. 

• Corporate virtual Site Visits usually are about 3 hours long on a school day. 
• Lumity has a template to help you and your colleagues structure the experience. 
• Visits often tour your offices, meet STEM leaders to learn about their career paths, and complete a job-related interactive project related to your core business. 
• Group size ranges from 25-30 students.

One Day Challenges are events where student teams work to solve a problem—either a real-world issue or a business challenge. Corporate volunteers work with the students, from forming initial ideas to presenting their solutions. A panel of professionals then judges all presentations.

• One Day Challenges usually are about 5 hours in person on a school day or 3 hours virtually on Google Meets.
• Lumity has a template to help you and your colleagues structure your unique experience for the students.
  Group size ranges from 25-30 students.

Your company can host a One Day Challenge, and/or you and other colleagues can volunteer at a One Day Challenge hosted by another company where a larger group of students will participate.

Mentoring

A trusted advisor who will help our youth explore different options this world offers them and give their advice and feedback. Someone who will set goals and objectives for their mentee to reach and be the best support system they can be as our mentee strives for excellence.

Criteria to become a mentor:

• Great leadership & communication skills.
• You must have the ability to listen.
• Able to provide advice and feedback
• Approachable and Accessible.
• Willing to devote an adequate amount of time to seeing growth in their mentee and ensuring their success.

Commitment:

• Mentors are expected to frequently have conversations regularly with their mentees as they see fit to both the mentor and mentee’s schedule. 
• Preferred mentors and mentees have at least one in-person monthly meeting in a public forum. 
• Check-in reports will be required at the end of each month to document their sessions with their mentees.

How it works:

• The process begins with an in-person or virtual event where our mentees meet our available mentors. 
• The mentees will get to listen and learn about each mentor and, from what they hear, make their own decisions about who they feel best fits them.
• Once matched, mentors and mentees will discuss their schedules and pick the times they see best to communicate during this process.
• During sessions, mentors will speak from their own experiences and guide our youth as they navigate life.

Volunteers work side-by-side or virtually with Lumity youth to review their draft resumes and provide constructive feedback on layout, format, content, spelling, and grammar. Once the resume is ready, volunteers are paired with one to three youths using a mock interview guide provided by Lumity staff to practice and rate their interviews.  These essential opportunities help the youth hone their skills and step into the workforce with their best foot forward.