To access the application for the teen scholarship, click HERE. The scholarship is open to seniors who have participated in community service with The Super Saturday Program. The deadline to apply is 3/21/26.
If after reviewing the information on this page, you have further questions, then contact the Teen Coordinator at teenadvocate@supersaturday.org
1) Teen Teacher’s Aides »
2) Robotics Team Mentors »
3) Service-Learning Project »
Why is The Super Saturday Program needed? »
What does the organization do? »
1) Teen Teacher’s Aides
Giving your time and talents as a Teen Teacher’s Aide (TA), you can be in a classroom helping a teacher and parents with setting up materials, monitoring activities, lending students a hand, coaching them through problem solving, encouraging interaction, and cleaning up.
Mandatory training includes leadership skills, classroom procedures, and accommodations for the sensitivities and common learning difficulties and disabilities of intellectually gifted children. Throughout the term, there will be opportunities to develop leadership skills and confidence. Leadership skills include being proactive, planning, adaptability, communication, team building, assertiveness, and conflict management.
This opportunity is a good fit for gifted students, students who are considering a career in teaching or who otherwise enjoy working with children, and those who love learning themselves.
You can choose to serve fall, winter, and/or spring term. Each term’s classes run six Saturdays. You can choose to serve in a morning and/or afternoon class. Class periods are two hours with the morning class period from 9:30am to 11:30am and afternoon class period from 12:30pm to 2:30pm. TAs are expected to be in the classroom a minimum of 15 minutes early to help set up and are expected to stay a minimum of 15 minutes after to help clean up. Morning or afternoon alone is a 19 hour commitment (15 in classroom plus 4 in training) with additional hours available. Morning and afternoon combined is a 34 hour commitment (30 in classroom plus 4 in training). We have had some individuals contribute over 100 service hours in a school year.
FALL TERM 2026
Deadline to Email Forms: Monday, September 21, 2026
Preparatory Training: the morning of Saturday, October 3, 2026
Classes: Saturdays, October 10, 2026 through November 14, 2026
Wrap-Up Training: the morning of Saturday, November 21, 2026
WINTER TERM 2027
Deadline to Email Forms: Monday, December 28, 2026
Preparatory Training: the morning of Saturday, January 9, 2027
Classes: Saturdays, January 16, 2027 through February 20, 2027
Wrap-Up Training: the morning of Saturday, March 6, 2027
SPRING TERM 2027
Deadline to Email Forms: Monday, February 22, 2027
Preparatory Training: the morning of Saturday, March 6, 2027
Classes: Saturdays, March 13, 2027 through April 17, 2027
Wrap-Up Training: the morning of Saturday, April 24, 2027
In addition to being posted above, dates and times are also posted to a Google Calendar.
Instructions for subscribing to the Google Calendar »
If you are age 13 to 18 and are interested in being a Teen Teacher’s Aide, prior to each term…
| STEPS | FORMS | NEW APPLICANTS | RETURNING TEENS |
| #1 | Annual Policy Agreement | Read and sign. | If you have one on file for current school year, review. |
| If not, read and sign. | |||
| #2 | Annual Application | Complete New Applicant version. | If you have one on file for current school year, skip. |
| If not, complete Returning Teens version. | |||
| #3 | Intent to Participate for Term | Complete each term. | |
| #4 | Release to Own Recognizance | optional – By signing form, parent/guardian will not have to sign in and sign out teen participant. | |
| #5 | Email forms to teenadvocate@supersaturday.org by the deadline. | ||
| #6 | If you have not taken Super Saturday classes, have your parent or guardian create an online account HERE. | n/a | |
| #7 | If your application is approved, register for the “AM Teen Leader Program” and/or “PM Teen Leader Program” class in the registration system HERE. | ||
The number of openings for TAs is limited by the number of classes offered each term. Applications will be approved on a case by case basis.
2) Robotics Team Mentors
Did you participate in FIRST LEGO League at the Challenge level and have aged up? Or, did you participate in VEX Robotics in elementary or middle school? Would you now like to mentor younger children in robotics? Email marketing@supersaturday.org with your experience and coach reference(s) to be put in touch with our coaches and find out if the mentoring needs of one of our teams fits your interests and time availability. If you want to track your mentoring hours, we can help with that.
3) Service-Learning Project
Through completion of a Service-Learning Project (SLP), you can give of your developing talents and skills to help outside of our classrooms in our operations. Our volunteers do a lot behind the scenes in order to put on classes. We invite you to visit our website, visit our classes, ask questions, and otherwise research us to identify a need in our organization that you believe is a good fit for you to address.
Selected high schoolers will be paired with a board member. We will be happy to coordinate with your school to ensure the SLP meets senior project, capstone, or other requirements you wish to apply your efforts toward. It would be rewarding for us volunteers to see that your SLP helps you explore a potential college major or career field.
Email your pitch to teenadvocate@supersaturday.org including, if you know, what developing talents and skills you want to contribute, the primary business function the SLP would fall under (finance, HR, marketing, IT…), the college majors or career fields you are considering, and your proposed project start and completion dates.
We offer a fall, winter, and spring term. Volunteers begin work on each term 10 weeks in advance of classes. Classes run for six Saturdays. Volunteers open the school building for classes by 8:30 and close up by 4:00.
A Service-Learning Project may be planned and completed within one term or multiple. Collaboration with our team may be done in-person on Saturdays and/or remotely anytime during the 16 weeks while a term is being worked on. The schedule for collaboration will depend upon the board member you are paired with.
FALL TERM 2026
Volunteers begin prep: Monday, August 3, 2026
Classes: Saturdays, October 10, 2026 through November 14, 2026
WINTER TERM 2027
Vounteers begin prep: Monday, November 9, 2026
Classes: Saturdays, January 16, 2027 through February 20, 2027
SPRING TERM 2027
Vounteers begin prep: the morning of Monday, January 4, 2027
Classes: Saturdays, March 13, 2027 through April 17, 2027
The number of high school students accepted for a SLP each term or school year will be limited by the bandwidth of our core team of volunteers. We currently can commit to two students or two well led student teams at any one time.
Follow this link for x2VOL’s instructions on how to sign up for the shifts: https://help.x2vol.com/knowledge/how-do-i-sign-up-for-or-cancel-an-opportunity. Make sure you sign up for the shift before the day of the shift. Follow this link for x2VOL’s instructions on how to log hours for the shifts you had signed up for: https://help.x2vol.com/knowledge/how-do-i-log-hours-in-x2vol. If your school uses x2VOL, and you do not see opportunities from The Super Saturday Program, you can ask your school to add us to their “Approved Organizations.” No sense in you doing the work to enter all those dates and times when we’ve done it for you.
If your school uses another online platform to track service hours, let us know to sign up for it to help you.
Why is The Super Saturday Program needed?
Intellectually gifted children have special needs for 1. education, 2. emotional formation, and 3. social connection. These special needs are often not met by contemporary school.
The special needs of gifted children arise from their asynchronous development, intensity, and sensitivity, and from society’s structural barriers to developmentally appropriate educational challenges and to significant friendships. In addition to advanced ability, the gifted are more likely than others to have a learning disability, bringing with it additional special needs.
Research shows that when their special needs are not met, gifted children experience developmental difficulties — and profoundly gifted children even more so — including:
- frequent frustration
- loss of motivation and underachievement
- low self-esteem or negative sense of identity
- maladaptive behaviors like perfectionism
- antisocial behaviors like opposition to educators
- deep loneliness and social ostracism
It is common for gifted children to not perform well in school; it is more common in the U.S. than many other developed countries. In the U.S., gifted are overrepresented among high school dropouts and incarcerated criminals.
Too often, these children won’t attain the potential they have to contribute to society.
What does the organization do?
The purpose of The Super Saturday Program is to address intellectually gifted children’s special needs with developmentally appropriate experiences.
We provide the platform for enrichment classes and academic teams that are
- tailored to their inquisitiveness, creativity, and accelerated learning,
- taught by someone who understands and attends to their behaviors and underlying feelings
- surrounded by gifted peers all engaging in a shared interest.
In this environment, these children can be authentically themselves building self-esteem and forming friendships.
We try to keep costs low and offer tuition scholarships as we serve children from across Greater Cincinnati from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Being a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization makes this possible. People like you make this possible.
We also serve the child’s whole support network with education, resources, networking, and compassion.