Docents, “volunteer teachers,” guide children on one-hour tours through the aquarium exhibit hall and give demonstrations on the beach. Provide information and conduct various activities relating to animals and plants of our local tidepools, beaches, kelp forests, islands and open ocean.
Sponsored by Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and the American Cetacean Society-Los Angeles Chapter. You’ll be trained as a naturalist to narrate whale watching trips on boats that depart from local landings December 26 through March observing gray whales, dolphins, sea lions, and birds. Naturalists also give presentations in classrooms.
Help lead tours for preschoolers through high school students. (Training is held during the summer and fall.)
In our animal care program, we have three volunteering levels that interested volunteers can learn and progress through. All volunteers begin working within the animal care program by learning “the basics,” and depending on your desire to learn and the time you have available, you can become proficient and confident in rehabilitation. Volunteers interested in…
Serve as an ambassador of The Smith Center by assisting with a wide variety of tasks, including attending community events and festivals, staffing tables, distributing flyers, greeting visitors and educating the community about The Smith Center.
Greet busses and assist staff with welcoming and way-finding for students, teachers and chaperones.
Greet and assist our patrons. Responsibilities include distributing programs and literature, ticket taking, and providing our patrons with a world-class theater way-finding and seating service – all with a warm and welcoming spirit.
Friendly & informed ambassadors that narrate stimulating stories and share educational information about The Smith Center.
The academy will teach you the five Emotional First Aid skills of reaching out, protecting, reassuring, organizing and reinforcing. It is taught with the help of rescue personnel and mental health professionals. Becoming a volunteer requires the 36 hours of training, a three-month field-training program, plus mandatory 3-hour continued education classes once per month.
We rely on volunteers for many things, including but not limited to helping with special events, distributing posters/flyers, assisting in the office, acting as exhibit tour guides, and putting together exhibits.