Blog February 2021
Message from our Executive Director - Be Our Valentine!
This Valentine's month, we hope you will love the Children's Science Center on social media! In doing so, you help us deliver our mission to inspire a love of learning STEM, especially this year when so much of our mission is virtual. Your social support has helped us bring our new virtual programs to those well beyond the DMV and amplifies our efforts tremendously. This month on social media we are sharing our love for our volunteers, celebrating famous scientists for Black History Month, promoting upcoming virtual programs like our Winter Weather Workshop with Topper Shutt and the WUSA9 weather team, and sharing more fun science activities and important facts like the impact and importance of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Please follow us, like (or love) our posts on all the platforms that you follow like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.
We love you back - despite the social distancing and shift from in-person to virtual programming, our love for our volunteers, members, donors, community partners, schools, families, and especially the children we serve has never waned. Absence indeed makes our hearts grow fonder, and we look forward to being reunited in person soon!
Nene Spivy (2/10/2021)
RSVP TO THE - Virtual Volunteer Appreciation Event
Join us on a Volunteer Victory Lap celebrating 2020 efforts!
Date: Sunday, February 28th
Time: 2pm - 3pm
Location: (Virtual): In the comfort of your home. Broadcast coming from the Children's Science Center Lab, Fair Oaks Mall
Join us as we:
- PLAY fun trivia games.
- RECOGNIZE 2020 volunteer contributions and celebrate volunteer milestones.
- UPDATE you on the state of the Lab and future science center
- PARTICIPATE in an interactive virtual science show!
Zoom link will be sent the week of 2/22/2021.
To RSVP
February Volunteer Appreciation Posts
The staff of the Children's Science Center appreciates your 2020 volunteer support and we wanted to share with our social media followers how important your contributions were. Since we can't do that in person we turned to virtual thank you.
Throughout the month of February, we will be highlighting several volunteers/volunteer groups and their contributions during 2020. When you see an appreciation post, please like and share it with your followers!
Follow us on the following channels:
- Facebook: @ChildrensScienceCenter
- Twitter: @ChildSci
- Instagram: @childscicenterlab
Also, don't forget to RSVP the Volunteer Appreciation Event on 2/28/2021. See above for the RSVP link. We hope you can join us!
Volunteer Highlight - The Youth Advisory Board (YAB)
Volunteer. Lead. Collaborate.
A team of Innovative, Entrepreneurial and Passionate High School Students from Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. They work to forward the Children's Science Center's mission and vision through high school student volunteerism, leadership and collaboration.
There will be no YAB introduction for February. We will resume introducing more YAB members in March.
See previous blogs to learn about these members. In the October blog, we introduced the Co-Chairs, Sarah Ali and Justin Burke, as well as the Vice Chair, Namitha Kapa. In the November blog, we introduced the 5 returning members from Fairfax County schools. In the December blog, we introduced the 3 returning members from Loudoun County schools. In January, we introduced the 5 members that are in 9th grade.
