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YES! Day Volunteer

What You Need to Know


Our YES! (Your Economic Success) program for middle school students is a hands-on, interactive morning program where students are exposed to career readiness, entrepreneurship & personal finance related activities, led by community volunteers, to help them begin thinking about the importance their education, career, and financial decisions will have on their lives as young adults.   
 
What You Need to Know: 
  • Our YES! program is a middle-school hands-on learning experience that runs roughly from 8-11:30am.  
  • Volunteers will be paired up and assigned to a classroom to deliver one 30-minute activity to four separate groups of students. 
  • Volunteers do not need any experience in the session they lead -- they just need a willingness to present the given material to the students. 
  • Junior Achievement provides easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on how to present the activities, as well as a kit with a script to follow and all materials.  
  • The students rotate through the activities, volunteers stay in the same classroom presenting their activity to 4 different classes. 
  • The teacher stays with their class the entire time. 

This video, put together by Victoria Kozlek, 8th grade Computer Science teacher at Hazleton Area School District's Valley Middle School, provides insight into a typical YES! Day. This programming is presented live to students from members of the business community, college students, and other adult volunteers.

Fall/Winter Schedule (new schools are being added regularly)

This is also a wonderful opportunity for staff members to get out into the community. Several companies use it as a team building exercise, or a way for employees to practice their public speaking and presentation skills to an unintimidating audience of middle schoolers.

If you are interested in volunteering, click the Sign Up button below.  For more information, check out our YES! Day Volunteer FAQ, or contact our YES! Day Volunteer Coordinator, Alysia Clancy, at alysia.clancy@ja.org.
 
We look forward to working with you this school year! 

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YES! (Your Economic Success) Day Experience

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