College Visits at ELHS

Sign up for the following college visits in Naviance under the "Colleges" tab

OCTOBER:

• 11-Trinity, 12:00PM

• 13-Westfield State, 9:00AM

• 18-AIC, 8:30AM

• 20-Bryant, 12:30PM

• 27-COLLEGE FAIR, East Longmeadow High School

volunteer opportunities

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• WHAT: Celebrate E.L. - Help the E.L. public library set up and/or cleanup their station at the event.

• WHEN: Saturday October 14, 2023. Set up from 10am-11am (receive 3 hours) & clean-up/pack from 4pm-5pm (receive 3 hours)

• HOW: Email Diane Tiago to sign up at dianea.tiago@gmail.com

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• WHAT: Looking for 8-10 students to helpout at the Halloween Extravaganza for kids at The Ice Cream Depot at Graham Central Station (accross from Dunkin Donuts in E.L.)

• WHEN: Saturday October 21, 2023 from 9:30am- 1:30pm (receive 6 volunteer hours!)

• HOW: Email Erin Ewick at eewick10@yahoo.com

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• WHAT: 2nd annual Oktoberfest - help with Set Up, Parking, Running Game Stations, Hiding Eggs Along the Walking Trails, Oversee the bounce house and more!

• WHEN: Saturday, October 21, 2023 from 12-4

• WHERE: Brown Farm (64 Hampden Rd, E.L.)

• SIGN-UP: Email Jessica Stacy at the E.L. Rec Dept - jessica.stacy@eastlongmeadowma.gov

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• WHAT: Not So Scary Trunk or Treat & Haunted House

• WHEN: Thursday October 26, 2023 from 500-630pm

• WHERE: E.L. Recreation Dept / Senior Center

• HOW: Click here to sign up!

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• WHAT: Meadowbrook Bowling Spooktacular at Shaker Bowl in E.L. They will need help with various tasks such as getting people checked in and to their lanes, setting up our trick or treat stations, decorating, and selling raffle tickets.

• WHEN: October 28, 2023 from 11am-2pm or 1pm-4pm

• HOW: Click here to sign up!

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• WHAT: Fleet Feet Longmeadow Mentoring Program - run (or walk) with other runners and be a mentor - mentor training provided!

• SIGN-UP: Click here for more information and to sign up

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• WHAT: Do you have experience with Chorus? Or Theater? Help out with the after school theater club at Mapleshade Elementary School. 

• WHEN: Thursdays from 2:30 -3:45 starting on October 5, 2023.

• HOW: Interested students should contact Carolyn McBride at carolyn.mcbride@eastlongmeadowma.gov

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• WHAT: Help coach youth soccer clinics in E.L. during the month of October

• WHEN: Volunteers can sign up to help in 1 hour increments. Tuesdays from 330-630 @ BPMS OR 430-630 @ Meadowbrook. Wednesdays from 430-630 @ Mountain View. Thursdays from 430-630 @ Meadowbrook. 

• HOW: Contact Coach Alfred at 860-478-9756 or info@futsalstreet.soccer

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More ideas..."POLITICS, CIVICS, GLOBAL"

You don’t have to go far from home to help people in need overseas. Raise money for organizations that help children around the world. Many young volunteers collect items like books, shoes and clothes for people living in poverty overseas. Or, if you can, consider going abroad to help with building schools or disaster recovery.

Here are some websites to get you started: 

• UNICEF - Rotary International - Doctors Without Borders - PoliticalCampaigns - E.L. Election Days - AmeriCorps - E.L. AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION - E.L. PLANNING COMMISSION - E.L. TRAILS COMMISSION

Town of East Longmeadow Boards & Commissions

• Board of Health, Broadband Committee, Community Preservation, Conservation Commission, Historical Commission, Housing Authority, Local Emergency Planning, Planning Board, Public Works, Recreation Commission, Registrars of Voters, Zoning Board of Appeals

Here are some student led projects: 

• Praneeth created an all-in-one software product for a nonprofit benefiting rural villages in India, improving its ability to collect and manage donations, publicize projects and track income and expenditures. 

• Cierra has collected donated toothbrushes, toothpaste and packages of dental floss for impoverished families in underdeveloped Asia-Pacific countries through a campaign called “Spreading Smiles Across Miles.” 

• Christian has raised more than $50,000 from a landscape business he started as a seventh-grader and from private donations to build houses for destitute people in Haiti and sponsor 20 homeless children there.

• Jessica is a dedicated advocate for young sex-trafficking victims around the world, and last year led a team to Costa Rica to provide girls at a safe house with the skills to build a life beyond prostitution.