2025 STEM and Business Career Exploration Day
Call for volunteers now open for Saturday, November 8, 2025!
Inspire the next generation of innovators and leaders! We’re looking for business, healthcare, and STEM professionals to volunteer at our Making Waves STEM and Business Career Exploration Day, an exciting event for 9th and 10th grade students exploring their future careers as a part of our new Career Spark program.
Share your story and give back to your community
For many high schoolers, the future feels uncertain. They’re trying to figure out their careers without ever having the chance to explore possibilities, talk with professionals, or build the skills to step confidently into a career path.
That’s where you come in! As a volunteer speaker and mentor at the Making Waves Business and STEM Career Exploration Day this November, you’ll have the opportunity to:
Other benefits for volunteers:
Meaningful community service opportunity in Bay Area
By sharing your time and expertise, you can make an immediate and lasting impact for 9th and 10th graders who are wondering what careers are best for them and might not have met someone in their future career yet. We are looking for volunteers with experience in the following career fields:
Business, entrepreneurship, finance, or marketing
Engineering (civil, industrial, mechanical, etc.)
Math, data, or economics
Medicine, healthcare, nursing, or health sciences
Science, chemistry, or biomedical sciences
Technology or innovation
Making Waves STEM and Business Career Exploration Day
Saturday, November 8, 2025 | 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Lunch included
Join us on Saturday, November 8, 2025 from 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Community Youth Center in Concord, California! The Making Waves STEM and Business Career Exploration Day will include a panel conversation and Q&A, networking, and hands-on career activities with high schoolers.
Share your story
Give back
Meet your future talent
Submit your interest by November 4, 2025 ⤵️
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Corporate and nonprofit partnerships in action
Making Waves’ recent pilot program, Hands-On Health, in partnership with Kaiser led to 100% of students gaining increased information about career pathways, increased social capital connections, stronger durable skills, and renewed motivation for their future.
Let's partner!
We’re looking to fundamentally change how education connects to economic opportunity. Are you a funder, corporate partner, or university partner looking for win-win opportunities?
Ways to donate
Donations have an immediate and long-term impact. Your support means young people have the resources and pathways to reach their education and career goals.
Corporate partnerships
Let’s create hands-on learning opportunities and build career pathways together. Grow your organization’s engagement, build your talent pipeline, and be a part of community impact.
University partnerships
Grow your university’s brand awareness with our students and partner with a nonprofit invested in student success from 5th grade through college graduation.
About Making Waves
Making Waves supports thousands of students from low-income backgrounds through the lifecycle of their education and employment journeys. We partner with students – as early as 5th grade – in imagining the possibilities for their future, finding their purpose, and making intentional decisions toward their goals. Then, we provide the scholarship funding and personalized coaching to help make those dreams a reality.
Impact
At Making Waves, we’re opening doors to economic mobility. At Making Waves Academy, the A-G requirements are built into the curriculum so nearly all high school graduates are eligible for California State University and University of California admissions. From there, our proven college and career success program makes higher education affordable and graduation attainable.
A-G completion rates for UC/CSU admissions eligibility
Four-year college graduation rate
College graduates with $0 in debt
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