Help Us Inspire the Next Generation of Diverse Texas Engineers!
Explore Volunteer Opportunities with TAME
TAME supports the potential of students from Black, Hispanic, and Native American communities, as well as girls, to pursue their engineering dreams. There are many ways to get involved!
2024 Competition Volunteer Opportunities
There are three types of volunteer opportunities for the 2024 TAME Regional Engineering Competitions:
- Set-up & Check-in Volunteers: help us prepare the space for our TAME Engineers.
- Design Challenge Judges: support our budding engineers as they tackle this year’s engineering challenge by asking them questions and assessing their work according to our rubric. Training provided!
- Clean-up Volunteers: celebrate the conclusion of a great event and help the TAME team leave the space as we found it.
TAME’s Regional Engineering Competitions bring together thousands of students to build new connections, tackle a collaborative engineering challenge, and make their case to the judges.
Volunteer at the 2024 TAME Competition in Your Region!
- Gulf Coast – February 3
- Lubbock – February 9
- San Angelo – February 17
- Valley – March 2
- West Texas – TBA
- Wichita Falls – March 2
Other Volunteers Opportunities with TAME
Volunteers are at the heart of TAME’s programming, and there are many different ways to get involved! Regardless of your skill set, TAME is always happy to hear from new volunteers! TAME programs rely on the dedication and imagination of volunteers like you. To find specific opportunities in your area, contact your local TAME Region. Across the state, TAME welcomes volunteers to:
- Volunteer at your TAME Regional Engineering Competitions (see details above)
- Provide support for your local TAME Club by leading an activity, being a guest speaker or organizing a field trip
- Start a TAME Club in your community
- Bring your team to pack supplies at the TAME State Office in Austin
- Offer professional consulting to TAME, including pro bono marketing, business, and policy consulting
- Join TAME’s Regional Leadership Team to bring more TAME Clubs to your region and help coordinate competitions
- Explore becoming a member of TAME’s Board of Directors
- Support TAME with a donation to benefit TAME programs across Texas
To volunteer with TAME, please email a statement of interest and qualifications to programs@tame.org, or call us at (512) 471-6100 to learn more about volunteer opportunities in your area.
10-Second Video Selfie
Share a 10-second video selfie with the below script to help inspire the next generation of STEM professionals!
Share your name, your TAME Club, hometown, what you majored in (or what you’re currently studying) and if you’ve graduated, tell us what you do with your STEM degree. For our bilingual alumni, you can also record a second message in Spanish if you like. Two examples:
- “Hi, I’m Katherine Johnson from the Leland Melvin HS TAME Club in Houston, Texas. I majored in Mathematics at the University of Texas and work for NASA as a Research Mathematician where I get to calculate the flight paths of spacecraft.”
- “Hey y’all, I’m Poe Dameron from the STEM Hotshots TAME Club in Presidio, Texas. I’m majoring in Aeronautical Engineering at Texas A&M University and I want to work as a pilot for the US Airforce.”
HOW TO SEND: Email or upload video clips to your preferred cloud server (Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive etc.) and share access to programs@tame.org.
TAME will share the clips to inspire TAME students across Texas in videos and social media.