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.  Note: Each school sets a different start time for their YES! Day. Please check the specific time on the event webpage for the school where you are volunteering.
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.

2024-2025 Schedule (new schools are being added regularly)

Thursday, Sept 26: Wyoming Valley West Middle School
Wednesday, Oct 9: Dunmore Junior / Senior High School
Thursday, Oct 17: Solomon/Plains Middle School
Tuesday, Oct. 29: Tunkhannock Intermediate Center
Friday, Nov 15: West Scranton Intermediate School
Wednesday, Nov 20: Hazleton Elementary/Middle School
Monday, Nov 25: Wallenpaupack Area Middle School
Wednesday, Dec 11: Carbondale Area Junior High School
Friday, Jan 24: Northwest Area Middle School
Wednesday, Feb 5: Greater Nanticoke Area Middle School
Thursday, Feb 13: Old Forge Junior High School
Wednesday, Feb 19: Dallas Middle School
Wednesday, Feb 26: Hanover Area Junior High School
Tuesday, Mar 4: Benton Middle-Senior High School
Monday, Mar 24: Valley Elementary/Middle School
Friday, May 30: Pittston Area Middle School

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, Bonnie Gregory, at bonnie.gregory@ja.org.

We look forward to working with you this school year!

View YES! Day Information Sheets