Engagement Opportunities
PESTLE Virtual Orientation – September 26 and September 28 at 2PM. Find out more info here: https://pestle.seas.upenn.edu/pestle-info-sessions-and-orientations-2/
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 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 | |
| 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 |
| Penn Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner | Philadelphia Auto and Parole (ongoing; 6 visits rotation) | Automotive Services | Must have prior automotive experience | Possibly six (6) site visits in every other week rotation; 1 hour – 1 ½ hour commitment.
Days vary dependent on student availability |
Jermaine Womack | ||
| Penn Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner | TechCore2-Coding Classes | Programming for K-12 grades | Team teaching coding program | 9/24/22 (for 8 Saturdays) | Joel Wilson | ||
| Penn Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner | Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation
(Drop-In/ One Time and can become ongoing) |
Food distribution to a majority Chinese-speaking population | Lifting boxes and setting up tables
Being able to speak any of the Chinese dialects is a plus Proof of COVID Vaccination
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Fridays 11AM-2PM
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Rosaline Yang | ||
| Penn Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner | Frontline Dad’s | Community engagement with multiple opportunities
Food distribution (multiple sites) (drop-in ; can made into ongoing opportunity, committing to go to at least 3 individual voluntary sessions STEM Tutoring (ongoing opportunity; clearances required) Operations Safe Corridor (early morning requirement; drop-in primary, but can be made ongoing; clearances required)
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Criminal background check, FBI finger printing, child abuse clearance (Needed for STEM tutoring) | TBD by service program selected | Ruben Jones
sign up link here |
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| Penn Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner | Friend’s Central School Center for Innovation and Design (STEAM Center) | Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science
(clearances required) |
Friends‘ Central School is looking for Penn Engineering undergraduates to help mentor high school students in any field of engineering and/or robotics. Volunteers would have the opportunity to develop project based curricula using various equipment in our newly built Center for Innovation and Design STEAM Center. | 2-3 hours per week | Matthew Schoifet mschoifet@ |
Friends‘ Central School | Semester long |
One-time Events:
| Category | Name | Topic | Skills/ Notes | Time Commitment | Primary Contact and Email | Possible Connections | Dates Active |
| 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 Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner | 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 | |
| Penn Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner |
MANNA (One-Time/ Drop-In; can flip to ongoing if student wants) |
Food preparation in an industrial kitchen
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Packing trays in an industrial kitchen
Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination |
Monday: 7-10AM, 10AM-1PM, 1-4PM, 5-8PM
Tuesday: 7-10AM, 10AM-1PM, 1-4PM Friday: 7-10AM, 10AM-1PM Location: 420 N. 20th Street |
volunteers@mannapa.org | ||
| Penn Engineering Sponsored/PESTLE Community Partner | Frontline Dad’s | Food distribution (multiple sites) (drop-in ; can made into ongoing opportunity, committing to go to at least 3 individual voluntary sessions | Criminal background check, FBI finger printing, child abuse clearance (Needed for STEM tutoring) | TBD by service program selected | Ruben Jones
sign up link here |
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| Student Organization Led | Penn Leads the Vote | National Voter Registration Day | help setting up/taking down the event, tabling, ticketing, and encouraging fellow students to register to vote | September 20th from 11 am to 3 pm
College Green registering voters |
Sign up link | September 20 |