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Lighthouse Community Charter School’s Maker Ed VISTA
 
 
 
The Maker VISTA program places members in underserved areas to reduce poverty by inspiring low-income students through maker programs that engage them in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), the arts and learning as a whole. The program will foster maker programming year round in 10 locations across the nation using community outreach strategies to ensure high poverty youth have access to making opportunities. The program will place 20 members into our National Maker Network structure (including 1 in Oakland at Lighthouse and 1 split between Lighthouse and Maker Ed) to act as community connectors within high poverty communities. The goal of the Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed) is to build the capacity of youth serving organizations to engage youth in making by developing educational frameworks and disseminating resources drawn from a national network. The Maker VISTA Program will specifically increase opportunities for high poverty youth to engage in making activities that ultimately increase academic engagement in each community. Members receive support from the entire team of Maker VISTA members throughout the country. Maker VISTA will allow Lighthouse (LighthouseCreativityLab.org) to help more institutions deliver quality learning opportunities to their students by providing human capital to reach new schools, offering professional development, implementing and testing activities, documenting and disseminating their work, and secure additional funds. Lighthouse has a 4-year history of success and runs a high-functioning makerspace, accessible to students K-12. Lighthouse is working to demonstrate that all students can be innovative and creative and that schools with at-risk populations can and must provide students with access to tools and resources. The VISTA program will allow Lighthouse to increase its capacity to serve the community. Lighthouse VISTA members receive a $14,664 stipend.
 
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Member Duties : Increase awareness & understanding about making and its potential impact on student engagement among local stakeholders; coordinate with local district administrators and schools serving high poverty communities to integrate making into instructional practices; support afterschool programs and youth-serving organizations in integrating making; promote training opportunities, meetings, and planning sessions to grow capacity; document professional development sessions and share with others; share making projects that have been tested on-site with educators around the country; support teachers to test making projects; write blog posts to share the ongoing narrative of making at Lighthouse; cultivate opportunities to establish dedicated makerspaces in schools and/or within communities of high poverty; and document the work to gain local support and to share best practices with the greater field. Fluency in Spanish a plus. Applications with resume and cover letter are due by 9/19/2014.
 
Program Benefits : Living Allowance ,  Training ,  Health Coverage* ,  Childcare assistance if eligible ,  Relocation Allowance ,  Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend . 
 
 
*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.
 
Terms :
None
 
Service Areas :
Community Outreach ,  Children/Youth ,  Education . 
 
Skills :
Fund raising/Grant Writing ,  Writing/Editing ,  Community Organization ,  Education ,  Recruitment ,  Communications ,  Computers/Technology ,  Team Work . 
 
 
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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
Lighthouse Community Charter School’s Maker Ed VISTA

Program Start/End Date
11/18/2014  -   11/21/2015

Work Schedule Full Time

Education level
Some college

Age Requirement
Minimum:  18    Maximum:  None

Program Locations CALIFORNIA   San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose  

Languages
English

Accepting Applications
From  08/21/2014  To  01/05/2015 

Contact Aaron Vanderwerff
444 Hegenberger Rd
Oakland   CA   94621
5105452582
aaron.vanderwerff@lighthousecharter.org
makered.org/maker-vista/

Listing ID 57422


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