Volunteering Opportunities at Rowan University

Volunteering Opportunities at Rowan University

Volunteer Opportunities

 

Volunteering as a college student offers manifold benefits: it enhances resumes, making candidates more attractive to employers despite any resume imperfections. It fosters skill development, providing real-world experience and honing leadership, problem-solving, and time-management abilities. Community service allows students to apply academic knowledge in practical situations, akin to internships but with the added value of societal impact. Networking opportunities abound as nonprofits collaborate with various entities, offering career insights and connections. Moreover, volunteering promotes a balanced lifestyle, aiding in time management and contributing to mental and physical well-being, encouraging lifelong social consciousness. You can read more about the benefits of volunteerism here.

Whether you are volunteering for your own reasons or to log them for your favorite CS student organization, there are many opportunities in and around the CS department.

 

Volunteer Tutoring

CS Tutoring always needs volunteers on Fridays from 12:00-1:30!

Interested in volunteering at CS tutoring? You can volunteer any time, when you show up just make sure to let them know you are there as a volunteer tutor and not a student who needs tutoring. 

 

CS tutoring is offered in Robinson 330A from around 11am-5pm Monday-Thursday. See more here.

Common courses you can tutor:

ISP-Java/Python, CSnP/PDS(C++), IOOP, OOPDA, DSA, DAA, OS, Prog Languages, Comp Org, Lab Tech, Foundations, Discrete, Calc I-III, Linear, PS4CS, DB, ...

 

You cannot tutor for courses you are currently taking.

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Rowan University Programming Contest

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Since 1987, the Computer Science Department at Rowan University has hosted a high school programming contest to give the most talented computer programmers in the area a chance to compete for prizes, fame, and fun.


For this to run smoothly, volunteers are needed to monitor the computer labs, assist with equipment (such as printers), chaperone contestants between buildings, grade submissions, and hand out awards. Please visit http://elvis.rowan.edu/rupc/ or email kilroy@rowan.edu if interested.

First Lego League

Rowan University is the Southern NJ partner of the FIRST Lego League (FLL) and hosts the FLL Southern NJ championship at Rowan every March

We need volunteers (faculty, staff, and students are welcome) to make this event successful. Thus if you wish to volunteer as a judge, a referee, a photographer, or in any way whatsoever, you need to register and complete the official FLL screening at: 

https://www.firstinspires.org/ways-to-help/volunteer/how-to-register

After the screening process is complete, you will be able to select how you wish to volunteer. 

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Fresh For All

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Students meet every Friday at 8:45 AM in Parking Lot D (Parking lot near the traffic light by the Engineering building) where they pack and hand out fresh produce and groceries to Glassboro and Rowan community members.

Often you'll get free groceries too!

Back to the Boro

Back to the Boro offers a unique opportunity for Rowan University to give back to the Glassboro community.  Although, Back to the Boro, or as other universities call it The Big Event, has become the largest one-day, student-run service project in the nation, our message and our mission remains the same – to simply say “Thank You.”  boro

Office of Volunteerism

volunteer We work collaboratively with university faculty and community partners to design a range of curricular and co-curricular service-learning opportunities. Students who engage with service learning, volunteerism and community engagement at Rowan will reflect on meaningful volunteer experiences as they develop a lifelong commitment to their communities.

For more volunteer opportunities, check out the Office of Volunteerism here.