Virtual Volunteer Opportunities for High Schoolers
Here are some suggestions for volunteer opportunities that high school students can do remotely. Click the organization name for more information.
Service
Be My Eyes: Connects volunteers with blind and low-vision individuals through a video app to provide visual assistance on a variety of things (expiration dates, reading instructions, etc.) Students must download the app, sign up as a sighted volunteer, and select the language.
Best Buddies: Students can be matched with a buddy and email back and forth at least once every two weeks; this is a great way to make a new friend!
Operation Gratitude: Students can write thank you letters to individuals who have served our country.
Elders
Love For Our Elders: Write letters to senior citizens, host a letter drive, or start a chapter at your high school.
Adopt a Nursing Home: Students can volunteer to write messages (online or physical letters) to nursing home residents to keep their spirits high.
Languages
Tarjimly: Students who are fluent in a second language can download this app and provide on-demand translation services for individuals seeking refugee or asylum.
Reading/Transcribing
Distributed Proofreaders: Students can volunteer as proofreaders as the platform continues to build their collection of books.
Learning Ally: Students can volunteer to become narrators of audiobooks to help others overcome obstacles in education.
Citizen Archivist: Students can volunteer to transcribe historical documents or tag archival photographs for the National Archives Catalog.
Citizen Scholar: Students can volunteer to transcribe historical documents (diaries, ledgers, logbooks, other records) for the Smithsonian.
By the People: Volunteers can help transcribe documents for the Library of Congress.
Tech
TED Translators: Students can volunteer to add subtitles to TED talks.
Mozilla: Students can volunteer to help Mozilla (the organization behind Firefox) with programming, designing, and testing content.
Education
Learn to Be: Students can volunteer to tutor elementary, middle or high school students with a variety of subjects.
UPchieve: Students can volunteer to tutor low-income students.
Science
NASA’s Citizen Science Project: Students can participate in space-related projects and research.
Instant Wild: Students can help scientists improve their work with animal detection technology by looking at videos and images taken and then tagging the animals seen.
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