New Volunteer Interest Form

Code Nation equips students in under-resourced high schools with the skills, experiences, and connections that together create access to careers in technology. The majority of our volunteer opportunities are weekday commitments between 8am and 6pm local time, and involve co-teaching whole classes and/or supporting students in small groups.

You can get involved in...

School-year-long commitments beginning in fall & continuing through spring
Shorter term commitments like summer or one-semester programming, weekend workshops, and career intensives for alums
One-off opportunities to engage, like organizing a field trip to your workplace or supporting a hackathon

We offer some remote volunteer opportunities, so feel free to apply from wherever you're located. Please just note that all long-term volunteers must be background-checked in order to start volunteering in any of our programs, and you will need a social security number in order to go through the background check process.

This form is designed for new volunteer applicants only. If you’ve volunteered with Code Nation in a previous academic year and would like to get involved again, please email info@codenation.org.

Let's start with where you are:

Now tell us all about yourself...

Our students come from a variety of backgrounds, and we use the below demographic information to help us build a diverse volunteer community to support the young people in our classrooms.

First Name

This can be your legal name or the name you prefer to be called

Last Name

Primary Email Address

The email you check the most frequently.

Secondary Email

Optional

Phone Number

Employer

If your employer isn’t on the dropdown list, please write it in.

Job Title

Birthdate

How would you describe your gender?

If you prefer to self-describe, please do so.

My pronouns are:

I identify my race, ethnicity or origin as:

Select all that may apply

What languages do you speak?

Teaching and Technical Experience

Have you taught or worked with students before? If so, please explain.

Note: Teaching experience is not a requirement for volunteering

Do you have coding experience and do you feel comfortable teaching basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?

Volunteering Preferences

The following information will help us find the best volunteering placement for you.

In which neighborhood do you live?

This information helps us match volunteers located in NYC, Chicago, or the Bay area with convenient volunteer opportunities. If you're volunteering remotely from elsewhere, you can skip this question.

In which neighborhood do you work?

This information helps us match volunteers located in NYC, Chicago, or the Bay area with convenient volunteer opportunities. If you're volunteering remotely from elsewhere, you can skip this question.

What form of transportation do you use most regularly?

Please let us know your comfort level with interacting with other members of the Code Nation community (students, other volunteers, Code Nation staff, etc.).

In what ways would you like to get involved with Code Nation?

Select all that may apply. Note: Co-teaching and tutoring commitments require technical skills.

Important Note: Our school year classroom volunteering opportunities (both traditional and teacher-led programs) typically require a full academic year commitment (i.e. Fall through Spring), though we have a few semester-long programs as well.

Times of day you are available for classroom-based volunteering.

Select all that may apply

Other Information

How did you hear about us?

Select all that may apply

Please use the space below to let us know any other relevant information about you and your volunteer commitment.

OPTIONAL: Communications Preferences

You can opt-in to receive different types of communications from Code Nation:

Please include me on your general emailing list (volunteer newsletters, org-wide updates, etc.)

Please include me in fundraising-related communications