Music for Minors II Intern Program
Please contact us directly if you have any questions.
High school students can earn service hours and we would be happy to write recommendation letters for them too. Below are some of the ways that high schoolers could help with the MFMII program. Must be reliable, have good communication skills and be able to work in a team.
- Publicity – posting flyers about MFMII training/events in the community, promoting MFMII events/training on Facebook and online.
- Recruitment in the community – helping out in community booths (eg Fremont Festival of the Arts, Art in the Park, Newark Days, Castro Valley Fall Fest, library musical hours) – set up, talking about the program with community, assisting children with instruments, passing out flyers, re-design library musical hour flyer.
- Recruitment in the schools – handing out training flyers at school open houses, performances, orientations, promoting the program and getting names of those interested in taking the training (online form).
- Website redesign – modernizing MFMII website and making it responsive (mobile-friendly).
- Family Music Nights / Workshops (6:30-8:30pm) - working with the event coordinator to help with the set up/take down of FMNs/workshops, taking photos, making egg shakers/kazoos/castanets, helping kids with arts/crafts at MFMII holiday event.
- Annual fundraising concert & MFMII kids choir concerts – flyer creation, publicity, program creation, set up, decorations, ticket scan, handing out programs, supervising performers, video, curtain, lights. Kids choir concerts are in December and May.
- Digitizing records, cassette tapes and VHS to CD/MP3/MP4/youtube.
- Overseeing the use of items at the 5 MFMII resource centers (RCs) at the following schools: Niles, Glenmoor, Leitch, Kennedy and Proctor. Keep RCs organized, check items are returned in a timely manner, take broken instruments out of circulation, gather wish lists, help with yearly inventory.
- Docent assistant – helping a MFMII docent in the classroom, if possible (on early release days); demonstrating a band instrument in the classroom, if you know how to play an instrument.
