Join our team this summer….
Summer Camp Enrichment Camp Counselor
[Job Summary]
As an Innovation for Youth camp counselor you will teach or assist with teaching hands-on activities that combine science, technology, engineering, art and math.
We are hiring for our STEM enrichment camps for the weeks of:
July 15-19 - Crazy Contraptions and Innovation Theme
July 22-26 - Science Fiction Makerspace Theme
Aug 5-9. - Girls Rock at STEM Theme
These camps are being held at Greenmeadow Community Center and Pool in Palo Alto, CA.
High school students and high school aged homeschool students are encouraged to apply for this position.
As an enrichment camp counselor, your role is to lead and help kids do their projects, to help maintain a positive instructional environment and to do a wide variety of “housekeeping” tasks that make our camps go well. While prior formal teaching experience is not required, you would be a good fit for this job if you have a passion for science and technology and you have some experience leading activities for young people.
We are accepting applications right now for our summer camps.
[Are You a Good Fit to Join Our Team?]
Would you enjoy helping kids do fun and amazing science, technology, engineering, art and math projects during the summer?
Are you a fast-learner, enthusiastic, energetic and have good communication skills?
Would you be good at helping to attend to the work and details that go into implementing a successful and fun STEM enrichment camp?
[About Innovation for Youth]
At Innovation for Youth, we offer camps that are designed to be wonderful learning environments for young people to learn about STEM, innovation and leadership. Our summer camps offer unforgettable hands-on experiences. We solve thrilling design challenges. We explore hands-on materials where our campers can walk away with more confidence to solve STEM problems.
We believe in creating a caring community of learners. We are learning all the time along with our campers. We also make it a point to personally reflect on our camp practices so that we can improve as camp counselors. We believe that camp counselors are very important in young people’s lives in the role of informal educators. Our hope is that by offering a well resourced camp implemented by caring and talented staff that we can help our campers nurture their passion for learning and ultimately have their skills they learn at camp be a foundation for their future occupations and hobbies.
Want to see how fun our summer camps are and the kinds of activities we offer? Check out the following videos of our camps in action….
Crazy Contraptions Camp Highlights - Summer 2022
Girls Rock at STEM Camp Highlights - Summer 2023
[What do Innovation for Youth Camp Counselors Do?]
[Essential Duties and Responsibilities]
Teach innovation camp activities from our curriculum
Setup and pack-up of materials
Preparation of materials for lessons
Learning the curriculum we teach and helping develop the Innovation for Youth curriculum and lesson implementation plans.
Maintain a positive camp environment by offering the right balance of structure and fun. Part of creating a great camp is implementing positive limit setting and developing solutions with campers and other staff when behavior becomes unsafe, disruptive or inappropriate.
Helping to maintain a positive relationship with our site hosts by keeping the site in a clean and orderly state and communicating well with our site hosts for across team collaboration and taking good care of the facilities
Assistant Counselors basically help support the work that the camp counselors do.
[Education and Experience]
High school graduate or equivalent for counselor and activity instructor positions.
14 and above and work permit from school district for assistant counselors.
Childcare or recreational activity experience
[Skills]
Excellent communication skills
Ability to quickly learn an activity and be able to deliver it confidently and professionally.
[Other Requirements]-
Be dependable, prompt and detail oriented.
Be able to lift 20 - 40 lbs. (Note: We are willing to make reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities as long as they are able to perform most of the other essential functions of the job).
Be willing to prepare, set-up and cleanup from hands-on lessons that use a wide variety of materials.
Be willing to go through necessary background checks, finger-printing,and work eligibility as required by law, by us and/or by our site hosts.
[Compensation]
We want our instructors to feel well compensated and rewarded for working with our students. We compensate at $17.80-$25/hour depending on experience and qualifications met for this position.
[To apply to be an Innovation Enrichment Instructor]
If you think you would do well as an Summer Enrichment Camp Counselor or Assistant Counselor, please tell us about yourself and why you think you would be a good fit for the camp counselor or assistant counselor roles. Please send inquiries for this job and resume Please put the words “Summer Camp Counselor” in the subject line.