Volunteer Opportunities for Kids' World of Energy Festival

Join Relay Education facilitators as they go into schools using hands-on experiments to teach about science. This will be a fun day!

Needed: Adult Volunteers (ages 18 and up) for the Kids' World of Energy Festival
Stipend: $100 per day in the form of a Giftogram (online gift card that can be used for wide range of different businesses that's valued at $100)

Duration: The length of a school day. The Kids' World of Energy Festival is happening throughout the country on different dates
Organization: Relay Education 
Event webpage: https://relayeducation.com/programs/festival/

Volunteer Dates/Locations: 

British Columbia: North Burnaby on March 31, 2026

Ontario (Windsor, Chatham, Six Nations, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and Ottawa)

New Brunswick (Moncton)

 

Event Description

Relay Education is bringing field trips to schools for the Kids' World of Energy Festival across Canada!

Relay Education’s Kids' World of Energy Festival is a school-based event that showcases different forms of renewable energy to students through hands-on learning. Students explore wind power with wind turbines, solar power with solar panels, electricity with circuits, and biogas with chemical mixtures.

Volunteer role: Lead a short hands-on activity about a renewable energy topic to small groups of students through-out the day with support from Relay Education. Each volunteer will be tasked to running an activity station on a specific topic that includes a hands-on activity, which will be delivered to different groups of students in a classroom-wide environment.

Training materials and video support will be provided in advance of the event day, so you can become familiar and prepared for the content you'll be delivering. Training and support is also offered on the day of. You should feel comfortable talking and facilitating small group activities for kids. 

Overview of how day runs:

There will be 4 activity stations set-up in a space within a local elementary school. Each station will have a hands-on activity that is directed by volunteers or Relay Education staff that focuses on renewable energy. Four classes will participate throughout the festival day, with one class participating at a time for approx. 1 hour. As a volunteer you will be responsible for presenting and leading an activity to students about a renewable energy topic.

The Relay Education staff will give a short presentation about the festival to the class at the beginning of each class' participation. After the presentation, the classroom of students will break into 4 smaller groups. Each group will go to an activity station. You will have approximately 12-14 minutes to complete the activity with each group. Once you hear a signal from the Relay Education lead, each group will switch to the next station, and you will receive a new group of students. This will continue until you have engaged all 4 groups of students from one class. This is a full day event that follows a typical school day schedule with a break for lunch.

What do you need to be able to do?

• Be comfortable speaking to and directing groups of children from diverse backgrounds;
• Good to have knowledge of and a passion for environmental issues, teaching, technology, engineering, and/or science;
• Have a sense of humour and be flexible;
• Please be punctual. Your role will be extremely important for the day.

How to connect with us to volunteer:

Please send an email to: info@relayeducation.com

In the email, please include the name of your province along with the city or town. Within the body of the email, please share your name, any applicable volunteer experience and why you are interested in volunteering. One of the Relay staff team will follow up with you to share more information.

No phone calls please.

About Relay Education

Relay Education is an innovative charity that educates, assists and engages individuals and communities about renewable energy and energy conservation through diverse learning programs.

Relay delivers renewable energy and environmental education programs in classrooms and communities. Relay is creating systemic change for a greener future and fostering the next generation of green energy leaders.

For more information about Relay Education, please visit our website: relayeducation.com

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