Volunteers are the front line team creating moments of education and inspiration every day. They can be trained on volunteering in just one area or can learn them all. At our Explainer Station, volunteers engage guests with STEM tabletop activities. In the Smithsonian Spark!Lab, volunteers facilitate inquiry-based discovery using creative methods to inspire and encourage…
Volunteers lend their time and hands-on technical skills to guide the improvement and maintenance of a variety of exhibits, equipment, and systems. (Minimum of a Six-Month minimum commitment)
One of the most valuable things our supporters can contribute is their time. Volunteers can participate in a wide range of activities including dog rescue, dog care, veterinary transportation, event staffing, fundraising projects, and more. Reach out if you are interesting in learning more about volunteering!
Join a small team of your friends, family, and other interesting volunteers. Collect samples of bugs and other creatures that live in our streams. These insects tell us how healthy the river system is, where the healthier areas are, and where we need to focus our restoration efforts. Volunteers meet in Ann Arbor and then…
Interested in getting to know the internal working of HRWC? We routinely need help for a few hours a week. Knowledge of Microsoft products and office equipment a plus. Ideal candidates stay with us for one or more months.
Enjoy being outdoors while engaging local students in a series of hands-on stream ecology lessons that teach the importance of water quality and protecting the watershed. Learn how to teach small groups of students how to determine a stream’s health through measuring conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, turbidity, and stream discharge, erosion and speed. The…
Want to take your volunteering with Huron River Watershed Council to the next level? Become a sample collector for our next River Roundup, if you’re already a collector take it to the next level sign up for Leadership Training. Our trained volunteer leaders and collectors are what make our River Roundups great! If you have…
Volunteer writers and researchers assist with member publications like the biannual newsletter each Spring and Fall which features short articles about OLLI members and events.
The class moderator supports the instructor and classmates in a Zoom class by admitting class members from the waiting room and managing the Q&A period. In some classes, at the instructor’s request, they may also run PowerPoint slides, help lead class discussion and the like. Before the start of each semester volunteers are matched with…
If you like computers and electronics and are knowledgeable in this field or are interested in learning more about them, OLLI and our instructors are always in need of extra support with Audio-Visual equipment. We generally use just a few software programs (mostly PowerPoint) on laptops connected to data projectors. However, we also use DVD/CD…