Summer Camp Lead Instructor

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Free uniforms
• Opportunity for advancement
• Training & development

• $18/hour, 20 hours/week
• Mileage reimbursement
• Rewarding and enjoyable summer job
• Lesson plans and all program materials supplied

• As a Mad Science Summer Camp Lead Instructor, you will teach students an interactive STEM camp comprised of LOTS of hands-on activities, exciting demonstrations, and fun take-home projects that will illustrate how science affects the world around us. Build and fly rockets, demonstrate lasers, explore the states of matter using dry ice, and help children create slime. You will inspire the next generation of scientists through our innovative activities that show kids what science is really about.

• Leading half-day, three-hour science-themed summer camps using a pre-set, easy-to-understand curriculum. Science background is not needed.
• Each camp day is jam-packed! Along with your camp assistant, you'll lead campers through a series of hands-on activities related to that week's topic.
• All camps are half-day morning camps from 9 am - 12 pm. Instructor hours are 8:30 am - 12:30 pm.
• Travel to different camp locations each week. Camps are located in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Suffolk
• Enjoy teaching children the fascinating wonders of science!

• Experience working with GROUPS of elementary age children is a must (ages 6-11)
• A valid driver's license and reliable car
• Available minimum of 7 of 9 weeks of camp season (June 15 - August 14)
• Fun and outgoing personality
• Bachelor's Degree
• Teaching certification not required, but a plus

• Our mission at Mad Science of Hampton Roads is to inspire children through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and spark lifelong imagination and curiosity. Since 2008, Mad Science of Hampton Roads has delivered unique, hands-on STEM experiences for children through our after-school programs, birthday parties, workshops, special events, and summer camps. Our innovative programs are as entertaining as they are educational!