Join the Broomfield STEM team!

Volunteers are the heart of Broomfield STEM and without them, none of our work would be possible. We know that many hands make light work, so please consider filling out the form at the bottom of the page to offer your time and talents to our students. Your contributions will help further our mission to make quality STEM learning accessible, inclusive and fun for all!

Work With Students

  • Mentors and Team Coordinators

    Our Mentors are the heart of Broomfield STEM, and they make a huge impact in the lives of their students. Time commitments vary from once a month to several times a week, and there are roles for adults with and without technical expertise. Please visit the “Mentors” page for detailed information.

    Team Coordinators are needed to help with behind the scenes logistics; from rounding up paper work, to sending team reminders, to organizing small celebrations, to taking food orders for competitions, team coordinators are an important part of our mentor team!

  • Mentor Assistants

    Our awesome mentors and students could use some extra adult help at their meetings. No technical knowledge is required, just a willingness to support our mentors and students and be an extra set of hands, eyes and ears.

    Assistants can pick which program and group they want to help, and can commit to as few as one or two meetings each month or help at every meeting. A clean background check and reference checks will be required to volunteer.

  • Summer Camp Crew

    Summer wouldn’t be the same without camp, and at Broomfield STEM we think camp is a perfect way to get messy and explore Science, Technology, Engineering and Math concepts in all their awesomeness. Perfect for someone who loves kids and STEM but can’t mentor year round, our camp volunteers can make a short term commitment that has a big impact.

    Camp counselors should expect to be onsite for the entire week of camp, arriving an hour before camp starts, and leaving an hour after it ends each day. Counselors will be assigned a group of 8-10 students for the week and will be responsible for leading basic activities, ensuring the safety of our campers, and working with guest presenters and “experts”.

    Camp volunteers are needed as support staff - helping with materials prep, activity set up, lunch monitoring and clean up, or running an activity or station. Camp volunteers are welcome to help all week, but are not required to do so. We’ll take you when we can get you!

    All camp volunteers must take the FIRST youth protection training, pass a background check, compete our volunteer application and provide references.

  • FIRST Competition Volunteer

    1 or more Saturdays in November-April

    Broomfield STEM’s robotics teams attend multiple competitions each year, and those events can’t run without help from volunteers like you! There are many dates and locations to choose from, and there’s a wide variety of roles that need filled. If you’re just getting started as a FIRST volunteer, we suggest:

    - Robot Queuer (A full day commitment, this role will have you up and moving around and close to all the action. If you want to talk with the teams and see their robots close up, this is a perfect job for you! No advanced training or technical knowledge is required.)

    - Competition Judge (A full day commitment with a few hours of advanced reading and video training required. Practical training is done the day of the event, and new judges will be paired with experienced judges as they learn. Judges listen to 4-5 team presentations, interview teams, and work together to decide which teams are awarded judged awards.)

    To learn more about volunteering at FIRST events and to sign up, CLICK HERE. We hope to see you there!

Behind the Scenes

  • Special Event Crew

    If you enjoy working and laughing with a team of people to put on one-off events, this crew is for you!

    Events may include:

    A Kick-Off Picnic over the summer, Decorating a float in the Broomfield Days Parade in September, running a concession stand at our FLL scrimmage in the fall, hosting a Trunk or Treat in October, hosting a movie night, organizing field trips, and putting on the End-of-Year Celebration in early May.

    Feel free to join the crew for just one of these or dive into them all!

  • Fundraising Team

    Broomfield STEM is growing, and so is our need for funding! As we move into an exciting new phase for our non-profit, we need an enthusiastic team of people to help us create a fundraising strategic plan and help us enact it. Roles for team members might include:

    - Connecting with local businesses and organizations to ask for financial support,

    - Writing grants and filing grant reports,

    - Creating and implementing giving campaigns, especially our Colorado Gives Day campaign in October - December

    - Coordinating fundraising/community building events

  • Spirit Team

    Seventeen robotics teams means we need a LOT of t-shirts and spirit gear! We have the gear, materials and heat press, but we need help getting things made, organized and distributed to our teams! This team will be busiest over the summer and into the fall, and then again in the spring as we prepare for end of year celebrations.

    Our Spirit Team also helps with mentor and volunteer appreciation throughout the year, sending thank you notes, preparing little surprises, and helping with appreciation gifts at the end of the year.

  • Team Clean

    With so many students using our space, we need some help keeping it and our equipment neat, tidy, and less germy! (The paid cleaning crew does a weekly clean of the bathroom, kitchen and floors, so weekly cleaning is covered.) Members of Team Clean can choose to come on specific clean up days (quarterly), or can volunteer as their schedule allows: sanitizing toys, deep cleaning corners, or organizing shelves or closets. Every little bit helps our mentors and leaders spend more of their time focusing on their students.

Take the Lead

  • Media/Marketing Assistant

    2-3 hours/week, flexible schedule

    This role is ideal for someone with graphic design and marketing experience who is looking to make a meaningful impact as a volunteer with a limited weekly time commitment.

    Responsibilities may include:

    - Take, collect and organize photos from events for use with media and marketing efforts

    -Update website designs to incorporate new content and promote new programs and events

    -Assist with social media posts by creating engaging content for Instagram, Facebook and Linked In

    -Support design and production of newsletters, annual report, event flyers, promotional materials, and printed materials for events

    -Support fundraising initiatives and capital campaigns by creating print and digital promotional materials

    Skills required:

    -Prior experience or a background in marketing and communications (portfolio or examples of design work preferred)

    -Understanding of branding and ability to develop a variety of materials on brand 

    -Familiarity with Square Space (or similar website design platforms), Canva (or similar graphic design tools), access to photo and SVG editing tools such as Adobe, Gimp or Inkscape

    -Professional writing and proofreading skills

  • Fundraising Coordinator

    2-3 hours week, flexible schedule

    Our approach to fundraising focuses on building and supporting the Broomfield STEM community in collaboration with members of the larger community. We think fundraisers should be FUN! Pizza parties at iPie, Bowling nights, dinners together, Parents' Nights Out, matching shirt sales . . . our fundraisers offer us time to play together and build community while also raising money for our cause. If this approach appeals to you, we need your help!

    As Broomfield STEM expands, so does our need to fund raise. We hope to host 3-4 FUN fundraising events each year that have a high return on investment. (We want to spend our time on our students - not on elaborate fundraisers.) If this is something you would like to help us organize, we would love to welcome you on board!

  • Board Members

    As Broomfield STEM expands, we are looking to grow our Board with members that have the expertise, connections and vision that we need to increase our impact in and around the Broomfield and STEM communities.

    We are seeking:

    - A board member well connected within the Broomfield Non-Profit community who can help us collaborate with other organizations and entities to help us all achieve our common goals.

    - A board member well connected within the Tech Community in the Broomfield/Boulder County area who can help us identify companies with whom we can form partnerships as we work to educate and inspire the future tech workforce.

    - A board member well connected within Bouder Valley School District or Adams 12 Five Star School District who can help us start and grow partnerships that benefit Broomfield STEM students, and students throughout the four school districts that serve students in Broomfield County and the surrounding communities.

    More information can be found on the "Board" page of our website.

Let’s Work Together

Interested in volunteering with Broomfield STEM? Fill out the form below and we will be in touch shortly!

We can't wait to welcome you to our team!