Get Involved
Volunteer
Volunteers are critical to our success.
Volunteers work with every department at CuriOdyssey from speaking to visitors about animals to leading activities to helping behind the scenes.
Volunteer safety is a priority.
We are ensuring that full health and safety measures are in place to create a safe experience for volunteers as well as our guests, staff and animals.
Program and Wildlife Volunteers
Our volunteers help create an authentic, inquiry based, and immersive environment, while providing meaningful, robust, and personal learning experiences. We believe it’s critical to engage children at a very young age, while their brains and skills of observation and inquiry are developing. Volunteers create meaningful and memorable experiences for visitors by interpreting CuriOdyssey’s wildlife collection and engaging visitors with touchable biofacts, thus inspiring a love of animals and science and curiosity about the world to create a brighter future.
How to volunteer
Application requirements for our positions are listed below.
Fill out the online volunteer application at tfaforms.com website.
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For other volunteer inquiries, or if you do not hear from us within 7 days of submitting an online application, contact our Volunteer Engagement Coordinator Phil Drobnicki at volunteers(at)curiodyssey.org or 650-340-7518.
Volunteer Openings
Aviary Aides
Aviary Aides enhance the visitor experience by engaging visitors in conversation to help them observe and learn more about the wildlife in the Aviary, which currently includes different species of birds and turtles. Aviary Aides also monitor and record bird behavior and help to maintain a safe environment in our beautiful walk-through Aviary.
Wildlife Docents
Docents create meaningful and memorable experiences for visitors by interpreting CuriOdyssey’s wildlife collection and engaging visitors with touchable biofacts, thus inspiring a love of animals and science and curiosity about the world to create a brighter future.
The Wildlife Interpretive Guides
TWIGs (weekend Docents) create meaningful and memorable experiences for visitors by interpreting CuriOdyssey’s wildlife collection, engaging visitors with touchable biofacts, and presenting live animals to the public. In doing so, volunteers inspire a love for science and curiosity about the world to create a brighter future.
Join the CuriOdyssey Community
LOCATION
1651 Coyote Point Drive
San Mateo, CA 94401
Ohlone Land Acknowledgement
650-342-7755
[email protected]
CuriOdyssey is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Tax ID 94-1262434