Volunteer

Give Back with passion

Are you someone who wants to help empower our future generation with your knowledge, guidance, and time so that our students can keep learning and innovating unique solutions to solve today's significant problems? As a growing non-profit, we rely heavily on volunteers like you to achieve our goals. People like you play a direct role in fulfilling our mission- we are changing the future of applied computing together. Please reach out to us at contact@applied-computing.org if you are interested!

If you are still in school and are passionate about volunteering for ACF, please check out our Teen Internships page.

Guest Speakers

How to Humanize your brand for your tech start up- Tanyete Colon, Founder & CEO of InFUUSE

Are you a seasoned industry expert, educator, STEM advocate, engineer, community evangelist, global leader, or someone eager to share their experience with our young innovators through a "mentor talk" or workshop?

Please reach out to us at contact@applied-computing.org with your speech proposal! Someone from our team will get back to you.

Check out our other outstanding guest speakers:

Howie Xu (Founder of VMware Networking, VP of ML/AI of Zscaler)- "Future Impact Challenge Opening Ceremony Keynote"
Garima Mehta (Experience Designer, Microsoft, Infosys, EY)- "How to Design With Accessibility in Mind?"

Team Advisors And Superfans

We request industry technology or business experts or "advisors" from different domains with experience in any topic ranging from hardware (EV) to software, machine learning, or AI in digital healthcare to business training to cite a few, to empower our startup teams.

If technical expertise isn't your forte but community outreach, industry connections, or marketing is, we just might be talking to our beloved team "superfans." Some of our superfans are interested in our team's product as direct customers, while others provide a link to stakeholders or connect our teams to the target market through their rich communities.

Our teams will be thrilled to pitch their product to you while seeking your valuable feedback. Depending on your time and availability, this can either be a one-time session, or you can be a designated team advisor, where you attend four sessions every year, depending on a team's progress.

What they say

Phnam Bagley, PyroTamer Superfan, Partner at Nonfiction, Executive Board Member at Fast Company

"I have had the pleasure to review the PyroTamer project over the last few months. The project focuses on California (and other places in the world) burning at an unprecedented rate. It’s been wonderful to see the PyroTamer team develop a software solution that can help firefighters optimize access to critical equipment. Instead of relying on the government to do something about a dire situation, students are now empowered to believe they can team up and solve it themselves. This is a critical part of education that will serve the students long-term as they grow into their passions and inspire others to think critically and creatively."

Mehran Sahami, ACF Advisor, Student Parent, Author of "System Error" ()

Mehran Sahami, ACF Advisor, Parent, Author of "System Error" ()

"William has immensely enjoyed his experiences working on an ACF start-up team. He’s gotten the opportunity to learn about machine learning algorithms, work with them on exciting problems, and grapple with the challenges of building a project to tackle a real-world problem. In the process, he’s developed friendships, greater confidence in his skills, and more profound technical knowledge. Most importantly, he has fun doing it. It’s been a great experience for him overall.

Liz Taylor, Eco Hero Advisor, DOER Marine/Deep Ocean Exploration & Research

“I am glad that the team is making so much good progress!
It is a true joy to see their ideas becoming a reality!”

Over the past seventeen years, Taylor and husband Ian Griffith have grown DOER from a consulting and field services firm to a full-service engineering solutions company, occupying a 55,000 square foot historic building in the Alameda Marina. Mrs. Taylor even invited Eco Hero to her company office in Alameda for an industry visit.

If you want to empower teen startups with your expertise, this is a great opportunity! Explore our current list of junior startups and teen startups, and reach out to contact@applied-computing.org if you find a fit.

ACF facilitators

We also have volunteers who help us with day-to-day ACF long-term and short-term goals by facilitating several aspects of our organization. Some examples are content writing, documentation or curriculum reviews, event ambassadorship, team mentoring, hackathon representation, community recruiting, and promo content designing. We believe that many hands together can move mountains!

Know another way you can help?

We are listening! Please don't hesitate to reach out to contact@applied-computing.org so that we can discuss this further.

If you put in your volunteer hours with us and are part of an organization that provides a matching program for these hours, you can double your support and empower our community another step forward! Learn more about Corporate Volunteer Grant Programs here.