Volunteer Management

• Served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer for a year as a Volunteer Outreach Coordinator.
• Managed and organized 70 volunteers for annual fundraiser. Worked hand in hand with the development team and event planner to make the event run smoothly.
• Leveraged volunteers to meet 7+ community partner needs for programs throughout the year.
• Worked in a team to facilitate three large scale programs throughout the year.
• Acted as a media liaison during program events.
• Updated and managed volunteer database.

Teaching

• Partnered with AmeriCorps VISTA Education Team to create a service learning program
• Educated approximately 1500 students abouth the Truckee River watershed with this program.
• Assisted the Program and Education AmeriCorps VISTA with their Teacher Training Programs.
• Taught approximately 3500 students at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum for NGSS aligned field trips between Jan 2019 and March 2020.
• Lead programs in the museum maker-space.
• Ran museum programming throughout the museum engaging visitors in many topics ranging from Truckee River Watershed, Chemistry, Art and Science, ect.

Program Developement

• Created museum programming for the summer of 2019 and Fall 2019 : 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, LGBT STEM Day, Mars Rover and NASA engineering.
• Updated and standardized existing science demonstrations, curriculum, and safety forms.
• Researched and developed 8 new science demonstration between May 2019 and March 2020.
• Created 2 museum exhibits: Radio Astronomy in Pop Culture and wrote and designed a Table Top Role Playing Game for a Spark!Lab theme Play!

Events

• Was Head of the Annual Trick -Or- Treat in the museum committee
• Planned out the theme and then tasked other memebers of the committee with ensuring the museum was decorated
• Worked with volunteer coordinator to ensure that we had enough volunteers to pass out candy.
• Organized the 51st annual Student History Conference at the University of South Dakota
• Reached out to universities to advertise the conference
• Was the point of contact for conference submissions
• Recruited volunteers to be readers for submissions and panel judges
• Worked with faculty advisor to secure two key note speakers for the conference.

Archive and Collections

• Provided Assistance to the Museum Curator at the Wilbur D. May Museum in updating our archival database.
• Was an Intern at the University of South Dakota Archivea and the South Dakota Oral History Center.
• Was an Intern at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota assiting with an IMLS grant.