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Volunteer Program
Team NASA Volunteer Program offers you the opportunity to serve teachers, students and others and to inspire students to study science, math and technology while increasing your own learning.

Team NASA Volunteer Program
Why Volunteer?
Whom do we serve?
What Programs Need Volunteers
Who Volunteers
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Team NASA Volunteer Program
Team NASA Volunteer Program allows Ames educational programs to reach more people while connecting NASA and non-NASA people more closely and directly to NASA's programs. Team NASA invites volunteers who are adult community members with an interest in space sciences, aeronautics, and/or information technology outside and inside of NASA Ames Research Center or students between the ages of 13 and 17 who are part of an organized group with an adult chaperone.

Why Volunteer?
• Inspire and motivate students to study science, mathematics and technology

• Opportunity to learn

• Bimonthly tours of NASA Ames Research Center VIP sites

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Whom do we serve?
• Students

• Educators

• Individuals

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What Programs Need Volunteers
• Ongoing - weekly commitment
Ames Aerospace Encounter (Monday – Friday)
Educator Resource Center (Tuesday – Saturday)

• Special Events
JASON Project
FIRST Robotics
Educational & Outreach Events

• Special Projects
Teacher Packet Assembly
Science Fair Evaluators
Teacher Workshop assistance
Ushers

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Who volunteers?
• 10,000 Volunteer Hours

• 250+ volunteers

• Adults in the community

• Ames Employees

• Youth organizations

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Volunteer criteria
•18 years, or older for programs

• Interest in Space Sciences & Aeronautics

• Ability to communicate well

Adherence to standards of conduct

• Fingerprinted to work with children and/or get badge

• Appropriate dress

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Commitment
• One year for the Ames Aerospace Encounter

• Training takes two or three months when coming in three hours a week

• Special events and projects require a few hours to a few days.

• You pick the ones in which you're interested.

• The shift length is typically two to four hours.

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Contact

Barbara Patterson
NASA Volunteer Programs Manager
NASA Ames Research Center
DXE:226-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Phone (650) 604-0494
Facsimile (650) 604-6485

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