Teen Community Service Opportunities

1) Teen Teacher’s Aides

To view a PNG brochure to print and hand out, click HERE for side 1 and HERE for side 2.

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.

Former TSSP students have found helping in the classroom rewarding because they get to pay forward the unique learning experience they received at TSSP and contribute to a community that appreciates what often separates them from others.  Not all our TAs have been previous students in TSSP.

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 – tentative dates

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 – tentative dates

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 2026 – tentative dates

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

To view a PNG brochure to print and hand out, click HERE for side 1 and HERE for side 2.

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.