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5 people are interested
Big-Brained Superhero Mentors Wanted
ORGANIZATION: Yesler Learning Center
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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5 people are interested
At Yesler Community Center, The Big-Brained Superheroes Club, in partnership with RecTech, is working to teach, learn, and hone our superhero skills. Your mission is to help kids ages 5-15 improve their academic abilities while developing a language for and concrete awareness of some of their superpowers (aka "soft skills"), such as Leadership, Teamwork, Creativity, and Critical Thinking.
Your immeasurable moxie and big brain are needed at official Club meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4pm to 6pm at Yesler Community Center. But, if you want to inject your own superhero talents into Club development, we can use your help now!
Requirements:
Humor
Enthusiasm
Responsibility
Originality
Effectiveness
Smarts in language/art/math/science/etc...
& A do-goody two-shoes attitude perched atop a pile of perspicacity
Big-Brained Superhero Mentor Oath: "Big brains don’t think small. I’m prepared to give these kids my all!"
Admittance to The Big-Brained Superhero Club mentorship program is competitive. Send whatever displays of skill and merit that you deem appropriate, along with your time commitment and schedule availabilities, to: bbs@bigbrainedsuperheroes.org. Or just let us know if you have any questions.
For more information about The Big-Brained Superheroes Club, check out our website and blog at http://www.bigbrainedsuperheroes.org/.
More opportunities with Yesler Learning Center
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About Yesler Learning Center
Location:
825 Yesler Way, Seattle, WA 98104, US
Mission Statement
The Yesler Learning Center provides residents of Yesler Terrace Garden and the surrounding community with a nurturing, safe, culturally sensitive environment where they are offered practical knowledge and skills in the use of electronic technology and the English language -- tools for life-long learning and personal and community empowerment.
Description
The Yesler Learning Center was founded in September of 2000, under the auspices of the Seattle Community Technology Alliance (SCTA), a collaborative effort of the Seattle Public Library, Seattleâ??s Department of Information Technology, The Seattle Housing Authority, Seattle department of parks and recreation and several other community organizations and corporate partners. It is located in the Yesler Terrace Garden public housing project in a neighborhood with a high population of recent immigrants and refugees from Africa.
CAUSE AREAS
Children & Youth,
Community,
Education & Literacy
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
917 E Yesler WayComputer labSeattle, WA 98104
(47.601723 ,-122.320564 )
DATE POSTED
October 21, 2012
SKILLS
- General Education
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Public Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- Should be able to attend at least 10 Club meetings