Minnesota STEM Volunteering Opportunities

Bakken Museum
Volunteers can support The Bakken in various ways, including as a garden assistant, youth program mentor, events support, tour guide, collections volunteer, and more.

Bell Museum
The Bell volunteer program provides support at both special events and ongoing programming. Positions are available in exhibition galleries, gallery carts, astronomy programs, scientific collections, collections cove, and special events.

Code Club from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
To find code clubs in your area looking for volunteers, visit codeclub.org/en/mentor. Click on ‘find a code club’ and enter your zip code to find clubs near you that are recruiting volunteers.

Code Savvy
Mentor or judge for the Technovation Challenge, a 12-week program where girls and non-binary students develop tech projects addressing community issues. Or mentor students involved in Code Explorers, a free program where students ages 8+ can explore computer science with the help of industry mentors.

Como Park Zoo and Conservatory
Volunteers play important roles assisting throughout the Zoo, Conservatory, Grounds, Education and Visitor Services.

Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
Choose from hundreds of volunteer opportunities throughout the state with the Minnesota DNR, including habitat restoration, monitoring for invasive species, trail restoration, and much more.

FIRST
Volunteers work side by side with FIRST participants to build their leadership and problem-solving skills and, more importantly, their sense of belonging and self-confidence. Remote mentoring and coaching opportunities are also available.

Fostering Opportunities and Relationships in Science Education (FORSE)
MAS’ FORSE program works with underrepresented populations in STEM to provide access to educational opportunities in STEM. You can become a mentor or tutor, be a guest teacher for a STEM enrichment unit, coach a coding club, or create virtual content for classrooms.

Girls Dream Code
Seeking volunteers in the Twin Cities to aid in their mission of empowering young minority girls to pursue an interest in technology.

Great Lakes Aquarium
Volunteers introduce Aquarium visitors to animals and ecosystems from Lake Superior.

Million Women Mentors
Looking for female STEM professionals to inspire girls and women within Minnesota.

Minnesota Master Naturalists
The mission of the Minnesota Master Naturalist Program is to promote awareness, understanding, and stewardship of Minnesota’s natural environment by developing a corps of well-informed citizens dedicated to conservation education and service within their communities. Any adult who is curious and enjoys learning about the natural world, shares that knowledge with others, and supports conservation can be a Minnesota Master Naturalist Volunteer. Minnesota Master Naturalists are required to log 40 hours of volunteer service and participate in 8 hours of advanced training annually.

North Star STEM Alliance
Professionals can connect with students, host a workshop, host a site visit, and more.

Relentless Academy
Volunteer as an educator, fundraiser, or more with this Brooklyn Center non-profit with a mission “to prepare the next generation of leaders for science, math, art, reading and technology (S.M.A.R.T.) proficiency to close the academic achievement and wealth gap among families in underserved communities.”

Science Museum of Minnesota
Whether they’re facilitating a hands-on science activity, preparing a fossil specimen, or offering directions to the Omnitheater entrance, Science Museum volunteers are at the heart of the memorable experiences for visitors.

Tech for Good
Tech for Good is a hybrid community designed for those who want to leverage their talents, experiences, and interests to give back to our Minnesota community. Tech for Good members participate in this community to practice social good for our technology and broader Minnesota community, all while building out their network and having new experiences with other technology practitioners.

Technovation[MN]
Work with young people and help them learn how to build technology that will shape their futures! Mentors can be educators, parents, technology, or business professionals, after school coordinators, etc.

The Raptor Center
The Raptor Center depends on the hard work and generous time commitment of more than 300 volunteers. Opportunities include carpentry, clinic, education, flight, tour guides, and transport.

The Works Museum
Volunteers donate their time and expertise to help facilitate engineering activities with visitors, support special events and outreach activities in the community, and more.