Volunteering Opportunities with My Future My Choice

PROJECT  

HOW MUCH  TIME?

WHERE?

DATES

DETAILS

Play Testing a Board Game called

Engineers of Halyon  ( a second chance on a distant planet )

Schools / Colleges and Business venues TBC 

July

2024

Engineers and and game enthusiasts for play test a Board Game with young people.

The game uses the UN Sustainability Goals to help people explore how engineering ideas and business skills can benefit people and planet.

Once manufactured, sets of the game will be provided to businesses wanting to use it as part of their outreach activities.

Young Shipwrights

Boat Building

6 hours

 on the MV Balmoral moored outside M Shed Museum 

and we need helpers to launch at the Bristol Harbour Festival on July 20th 2024

17th May

3rd July

11th July 

More dates TBC

8:15am to 3pm. Ambassadors will support a small team of children to build a large model of a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter. Children will create a fleet of models of this iconic heritage vessel. Their finished boats will race in the Bristol Harbour Festival (20th July 12noon). The day will include a tour of the ship . The session is run by a facilitator with all the resources supplied. No particular skills or knowledge is required as Ambassadors are sense checking and team building to enable a team of 5 children to complete the task. We are keen for Ambassadors join us on the 20th July to help launch the boats and meet and greet children and their families at the Bristol Harbour Festival.

Aviation

7 hours

Oasis Academy John Williams,
Petherton Road,
Bristol,
BS14 9BU

 July 4th or 5th  TBC

2024

08:15am to end of school day.

  The project helps students discuss job roles in the aviation industry by engaging them with the fun of making, improving and flight testing different model gliders and wing configurations before creating an air frame for radio controlled powered flight.

The day can end with an 'Airshow' for parents and friends where students will demonstrate radio controlled formation flying.

 Shipping 2050

6 hours

 on the MV Balmoral moored outside M Shed Museum

Below is a list of the most popular activities we offer to schools that require volunteers

Young Shipwrights

Boat Building

Day or half day

In schools and on boats and venues in the Bristol Harbour

Port towns and cities across the UK

Usually in the spring and summer to enable sailing events

Volunteers assist a small team of children to  build model boats representing the regional maritime heritage

Boats sail in festivals and events that are held where the heritage vessels would have once worked

Aviation

Day or half day

  In schools and museums - needs a large space for test flights

As requested

Build and test fly gliders and model RC aircraft with small groups of students. Help students understand the aerospace sector.

Lifting Aspirations Accessing Engineering 

Whole day

At construction industry trade fairs around the UK and Europe 

In schools and colleges

Build and operate lifting devices

Explain aspects of lifting and access 

 Shipping 2050

Whole day

On a ship to give real context

Help students understand the crisis for shipping and the need for engineering soultions while designing and building a model for a concept ship fit for the future.

Build My Future

Whole day

In schools 

Volunteers support a team of six 13/14 year olds to complete a board-game that takes a fictional 13 year old on a journey to the age of 25. This game explores routes to success and happiness in life through a better understanding of why a balanced life style is important. The students then engineer their character as a life-size puppet that presents its story and conveys the key messages that it has learnt.

Sustain My Future

4 hours over a week

 Online

As requested

Mentor a team to come up with an idea and business strategy that capitalises on the UN Sustainability Goals