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Getting in the Swing of Volunteering

Sep 22, 2008

Sandra Porter volunteers to play matchmaker between science, technology, engineering, or math outreach groups and scientists interested in volunteering. Volunteering efforts, she says, can be large or small. "Small efforts can involve speaking in a classroom, mentoring students via e-mail, judging science fair projects, or assisting with homework questions. Larger efforts can entail doing or assisting with classroom experiments," Porter writes. She says that interested parties should contact her.

 

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