Boys & Girls Club of Marshfield
This is a Volunteer position.
Position: Coach/Mentor
Hot Shots is a program for boys and girls ages 2-6 dedicated to building their self-esteem, parental bonds, athletic and artistic skills, and love of reading, using soccer, art, music, dance, and drumming as the vehicles and including 100% parent participation.
In every activity, we use non-traditional activities to engage the kids’ imaginations and provide joy, such as squirt-gun soccer, polar bear sculpture, and story times. Children also do “public speaking”, introducing themselves to the group of about 40 kids and grown-ups by answering four questions: Favorite food, color, animal, and “What makes you special?”
Hot Shots is radically different from your average volunteer opportunity, too, with an extraordinarily high number of extraordinary benefits, including:
- Making dozens of little children happy every Sunday
- Earning lots of community service hours while having fun
- Gaining management experience as you move up in the Hot Shots organization
- Developing close relationships with kids who will look up to you as mentors
- Learning how to deal with crisis situations
- Collecting a college scholarship when you graduate
- Building the self-esteem of little kids at a formative stage in their lives
- Getting great letters of recommendation for jobs and college applications
- Learning public speaking as part of running the weekly sessions
- Becoming part of a tight-knit team of young people giving back to their community
- Getting highly-paid babysitting jobs
More than 300 middle- and high school students have coached for Hot Shots since 1996. We’ve awarded more than $13,000 in scholarships, and written hundreds of recommendation letters.
This is a chance to make a difference, not just check off the community service box for your college applications. Through your empathic coaching and mentorinf, you will build a child’s self-esteem foundation one brick at a time, so eventually they will have the strength to deal with the challenges life throws at them as they progress through elementary and, especially, middle school.
THE DETAILS:
- Who: Any male or female student in grades 6-12
- When: Sunday mornings in the winter, spring, and fall at 9, 10, and 11 AM. But we don’t insist that you attend every week or every hour in one morning. You join us when your schedule permits! How’s that for flexibility?
- What: Soccer in the spring and fall; painting, sculpting, dance, drumming, and music in the winter. You don’t need to know anything about soccer as we use puppets, squirt guns, hula hoops, and flying stuffed animals to teach soccer very creatively.
- Where: The Boys & Girls Club of Marshfield, 37 Proprietors Drive, Marshfield, MA 02050
- How: Write or text John Wilpers, the founder and director, and we’ll arrange an interview so I can learn about why you want to join the team and explain how it works (email: john@bgcmarshfield.org; mobile: 617-688-0137)
- Why: See the 11 reasons above.
