Join the Youth Leadership Team
Café Scientifique is a youth-directed program. Over 40 teens are active members of the Youth Leadership Team, and more youth leaders are always welcome. More leaders means more fun and a lighter load for everyone.
Interested in joining the Youth Leadership Team? Contact us!
Who is on the Youth Leadership Team?
Why be a Leader?
- Help design a first of its kind program for teens
- Ensure the program works for you and is fun!
- Develop new skills
- Make new friends in other towns
- Lots of adult support will handle background work
- Receive mentoring and training
Expectations of Leaders
- Recruit friends to help with the reponsibilities
- Opportunity to chair or co-chair a committee
- Work with adult leaders to plan and carry out tasks
- Communicate regularly by email or phone
- Attend training session with youth leaders from your town
- Raise awareness of Cafe meetings and the program in general in your school and town
Youth Leadership Committees
The Café program consists of two events per month in each town – a Café presentation and discussion and a more active learning event. During the Cafe presentation, a speaker introduces a topic for discussion with a 20-minute presentation. Refreshments and an open discussion for an hour follow the presentation. The active learning event may precede or follow the Café presentation. It is designed to deepen your understanding of the Cafe topic. The activity will be chosen by the Youth Leadership Team.
Our committees are designed to divide the responsibilities of guiding the Café program so that many more teens can get involved in leading and participating in the program. There is a role for everyone.
Recruitment & Outreach
- Help design and distribute posters and flyers about Café events.
- Create news articles and such for school / town newsletters and papers
- Contact other groups and organizations with similar goals to partner with us.
- Develop creative ideas for recruitment and outreach.
- Contribute content to the Café Facebook and MySpace sites.
- More ideas for recruitment and outreach
Welcome
- Meet and greet all participants in the café.
- Distribute and gather feedback forms.
- Develop and maintain lists of email, phone and other contact information for Café participants.
- Contribute content to the Café Facebook and MySpace sites.
Technology
- Learn to create high quality audio and video recordings of the Café meetings and perform these tasks during each meeting.
- Photograph meeting activities for posting on the website.
- Provide feedback on the Cafe Web design.
- Contribute content to the Cafe Facebook and MySpace sites.
Welcome Table
- Develop and maintain lists of email, phone and other contact information for Cafe participants.
- Meet and greet all participants in the Café. Maintain an active participant list so they can be contacted about future events.
Opening and Closing Activities
- Be the master of ceremonies for meetings.
- Learn to create high quality audio and video recordings of the Café meetings and perform these tasks during each meeting.
- Photograph meeting activities for posting on the website.
- Facilitate discussion with the speaker. Learn more about facilitating a discussion...
- Provide closing comments
- Award the door prize.
- Contribute content to the Café Facebook and MySpace sites.
Refreshments
- Plan a menu for each meeting. Work with adult leader to purchase refreshments.
- Set up and supervise food table so that it is eye appealing and allows flow of people quickly through the line. Make sure food supplies are adequately maintained.
- Clean up and store all food, dishes, etc., properly for the next meeting.
- Contribute content to the Café Facebook and MySpace sites.
All committees will help plan all events, provide feedback on all events, and assist with their set up / clean up.
