Education & Career Development

Boys & Girls Clubs help prepare members for the opportunities and challenges encounter in their adult life. College tours, professional guidance, tutoring, and mentoring give members the tools to become successful adults and the confidence to achieve their scholastic and professional goals.

Education Stations

Education Stations happen during dedicated times at each unit where members participate in a variety of reading and educational activities to help promote literacy and reading comprehension at all levels and for all ages.

Junior Staff

Junior Staff is a teen program that allows our teen members to gain paid job experience at the Club. Junior Staff work in the Club with our Club site staff to assist in day-to-day operations like serving dinner, cleaning up, assisting with programs, and assisting with Reading Readiness/Power Hour.

Participants must apply and already be members. For more information, please contact our Teen Employment Coordinator, Bryce, at bryced@bgckalamazoo.org.

Summer Brain Gain

Summer Brain Gain is a fun, STEM, and literacy-based educational program that aims to prevent summer learning loss and keep kids on track for the coming school year. Each module takes a project-based learning approach; youth engage in a process of learning through discovery, creative expression, group work, and a final project or production.

DIY STEM

DIY STEM is a hands-on, activity-based STEM curriculum which connects youth ages 9 - 12 to science themes they encounter regularly. DIY STEM currently includes five modules: Energy and Electricity, Engineering Design, Food Chemistry, and Science of Sports.

Money Matters

Money Matters promotes financial responsibility and independence among Club members ages 13 - 18 by building their basic money management skills. Participants learn how to manage a checking account, budget, save and invest. They also learn about starting small businesses and paying for college.