Stipend Available: $1,000.00—plus itemized metrocard and supply expenses reimbursed!
NYC Department of Youth and Community Development (NYC DYCD) and The NY Academy of Sciences (NYAS) is providing middle schoolers at up to 20 DYCD funded summer camp programs an opportunity to learn about nutrition and health in a fun, engaging way this summer 2014. The summer project called FOOD DETECTIVES runs for six-weeks and we are seeking scientists and folks who have a life science background to mentor middle school youth and teach a nutrition curriculum developed by NYAS. Classes will be taught in an informal environment, are hands-on and connected to field visits to NYC’s urban farms: (1)Brooklyn Grange – Brooklyn, (2) Brooklyn Grange – Long Island City and (3)Randalls Island Urban Farm. Students will also be taking pictures of organisms in nature when they go on field trips to upload to Project Noah, a web platform for documenting organisms found globally.
Location of summer camp programs:
1970 West Farm Road Bronx New York 10460
167-01 Gothic Drive Queens NY 11432
125 Stuyvesant Avenue Brooklyn NY 11221
138-50 Lafayette Street Queens NY 11417
Program Design
The Food Connection (July 7- August 15)
- Attend a Nutrition curriculum training/refresher from 10AM-3PM at the New York Academy of Sciences. We will have a supply kit sent to you.
- Partners will co-teach one-hour classes twice per week. Class scheduling will be handled between mentors and directors of summer camp programs. There will be 12, 1 hour sessions in total delivered across the six weeks. Sessions are scheduled between mentors and their host-sites, and should have flexibility.
- Students will attend 3 half day field trips to the closest Urban farms run in Brooklyn, Queens, or Randall’s Island on 3 consecutive Tuesdays or Thursdays with their classes.
- There will also be an additional field trip, funded by the NYAS. The Biobus, which can drive to your site, may also be available.
Please note anyone working with NYC youth must be fingerprinted for a background check and submit a medical report indicating fitness to work with youth. The background check will be provided at no cost to you.
If you have questions and/or is interested, please call or email me. Thanks.
Candace Reyes-Dandrea
Capacity Building Unit
NYC Department of Youth and Community Development
156 William Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10038
Phone: (212) 788-9922
Email: creyes-dandrea@dycd.
