Engagement Opportunities
Jump to: Semester and Year-Long Opportunities | One-time Events
Semester-long and year-long opportunities:
Category | Name | Topic | Skills/ Notes | Time Commitment | Primary Contact and Email | Affiliation/ Connections | Dates Active |
Penn Engineering Sponsored | Philadelphia Auto and Parole | Automotive Services | Must have prior automative experience | 2 hours weekly for 8 weeks
Hours of operation 10AM – 2PM, Monday – Friday |
Jermaine Womack; phillysautoandparole@yahoo.com | Spring 2022 | |
Penn Partner Sponsored | Moelis Access Science | Math, Science | Tutoring Ability, Flexibility with subject in STEM | Largely self-regulated, come when you can | Richard Carter; carterri@sas.upenn.edu | Netter Center STEM Activity
Access Engineering, USABE, NSBE, SWE, SHPE |
During the school year |
Penn Partner Sponsored | Pipeline Program for Public Health | Public health, anatomy, biology | Tutoring, mentorship | 5 – 10 hours/week | Richard Carter; carterri@sas.upenn.edu | Netter Center STEM Activity | Year round |
Penn Partner Sponsored | Netter Center Evaluation Team | Data science, statistics | programming, dealing with “real world”/messy data | Flexible; 5hrs/week | Katey Givan; givan@sas.upenn.edu | Netter Center STEM Activity
WICS, CS |
Year round |
Penn Partner Sponsored | Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative | Nutrition, public health | Bureaucratic navigation (SNAP benefits, etc), teaching | Evening hours; largely self-regulated | Katey Givan; givan@sas.upenn.edu | Netter Center | Year round |
Student Organization Led | Access Engineering Lessons | Weekly Engineering Lessons | Open to members of the organization only. Teach West Philadelphia high school students through interactive labs | 3 hours/ week | Jocelyn Chin;
Note: Student clearances required. |
Year round | |
Student Organization Led | Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) | Mentorship | Open to Latinx students in STEM. Mentor Middle and High School students | 4 hours / 2-4 times a semester | Isabel Gutierrez; | Semesterly | |
Penn Engineering Sponsored | S.T.R.E.A.M Engine | Mentorship; Weekly Lessions | Open to any Penn Engineering Student. | 1-2 hours / week | Register Here
Note: Start date will be dependent upon completion of clearances. |
Semesterly | |
Penn Engineering Sponsored | TechCore2 | Team Teach Coding programs; Mentorship | Open to any Penn Engineering Student.
Programming for K-12. Team teaching a coding class. Orientation required |
Begins April 2, 2022 (for 8 weeks)
11AM – 12:30 Pm or 1PM – 2:30 PM on Saturdays
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Register Here
For more information contact: Joel Wilso (info@techcore2.org) Looking for three (2-4) volunteers.
Note: Clearances Required |
TechCore2 Penn Engineering |
Semesterly |
Student Organization Led | Science Olympiad at the University of Pennsylvania Urban Initiative | Mentorship; Team Teach | Volunteers lead the activities with students and teacher partners during school-day and after-school programs, depending on the site and the subject. Our outreach includes directly mentoring the Science Olympiad team at the Philadelphia High School for Girls | Once a week for 2-4 hours a week. Time includes hands on teaching/ mentoring and participating in weekly curriculum planning. | Brian Lee: leebn@sas.upenn.edu
Christina Kim: csykim22@seas.upenn.edu All grad and undergrads welcome. Looking for 2+ volunteers. Note: Clearances required |
Philadelphia High School for Girls | During the school year |
One-time Events:
Category | Name | Topic | Skills/ Notes | Time Commitment | Primary Contact and Email | Possible Connections | Dates Active |
Penn Partner Sponsored | Office of Government and Community Affairs | Recruiting Campus Polling Place Workers | Sign up to serve as a campus polling place worker by contacting Rachel Kurlander at rakur@upenn.edu by Thrusday, March 31 | 6:30 AM – 8:30 PM | Dawn Deitch; maglicco@upenn.edu | May 17th | |
Netter STEM Activities | Moelis Access Science | Math, Science | Tutoring Ability, Flexibility with subject in STEM | Largely self-regulated, come when you can | Richard Carter; carterri@sas.upenn.edu | Netter Center STEM Activity
Access Engineering, USABE, NSBE, SWE, SHPE |
During the school year |
Student Organization Led | Alpha Omega Epsilon | Cards for Ronald McDonald House | Students design and write encouraging notes on handmade cards to benefitting families in residence and those joining.
Open to members of the oganization only |
2 hours | Erika Ravitch; eravitch@sas.upenn.edu | Once a semester | |
Student Organization Led | Penn Society of Women Engineers | Girls in Engineering and Related Sciences (GEARS) Day. High school girls to learn about engineering. | Penn student volunteers are needed to help facilitate the event, whether in person and virtual. | Full Day (6-8 hours) | Olivia Unger; oliviau@seas.upenn.edu | Once a year | |
Student Organization Led | Penn Society of Women Engineers | High School Shadowing Day | Mentorship.
Open to Penn Engineering Undergrads only.
High school girls in the surrounding Philly area shadow a woman engineering student for half a day to see what engineering school and life is all about. |
4 hours | Olivia Unger; oliviau@seas.upenn.edu
Note: Clearances Required |
Once a year | |
Student Organization Led | Theta Tau | MANNA (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance) Volunteering | Open to members of the organization and others that want to volunteer.
Volunteers complete tasks such as chopping vegetables, cooking and baking, prepping and packaging, delivering meals to clients, and providing assistance with MANNA’s events and community outreach. |
Volunteer for 3 hours shifts | Amy Guo ; amyguo@seas.upenn.edu | Once a semester | |
Penn Partner Sponsored | People Advancing Reintegration (PAR) Recycle Works | Electronic Recycling | Open to any Penn Engineering Student | 3-4 hrs. weekly on Saturdays | Maurice Jones; mqjones@par-recycleworks.org | During the semester |