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Last updated: 15-07-2019 by Walter Lim
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Voluntari.ly 

Industry in the classroom.  

We are building a platform that connects corporate volunteer time with classrooms to teach science, technology, engineering, entrepreneurship, arts and design with the help of engaging content supplied by New Zealand’s leading innovators in educational content.

Join the Voluntari.ly community 

We need people with tech skills to contribute to our project: Architects, designers, coders, testers, thinkers, communicators - anyone and everyone. 

This is an open source project and you are invited to contribute at any level you feel comfortable. Find out more about the project at the Website and then...

  1. Say kia ora and ask questions in the Gitter chat room:  https://gitter.im/voluntarily/community
  2. email team@voluntari.ly to tell us about yourself
  3. Start Reading documentation
  4. Checkout the code - https://github.com/voluntarily/vly1. We use Mongo,Express,React,Node (MERN) but you don’t need to know these to be useful and we can teach you.
  5. Come along to a 'Drop in Wednesday Afternoon' or after work social at our Auckland office
  6. Sign up for one of our upcoming developer events:
    1. Working bee at Datacom – 4th May 2019 – Datacom 58 Gaunt St, Auckland – sign up here
    2. Hackfest at University of Auckland – Saturday 17th to Sunday 18th May – sign up here (more info here)
 

Voluntari.ly is an online app that connects schools with corporate volunteers and short technology course content.

Schools today need to teach digital technologies. There are training programmes (for teachers) dotted around the country but to truly excite the tamariki and rangatahi with new material, they need expert voices in the room, connecting them with a real-world context.

Enter NZ Inc. Our large corporations all have volunteer programmes. They want to give back to the communities they work in. For a variety of reasons, a lot of these volunteer hours remain unused.

The third side of the triangle is a vast range of digital technology content providers. There is a wealth of programmes out there, most free, that could be used in any situation. Schools lack the technical knowledge to take these and run them without expert assistance.

Voluntari.ly is an innovative marketplace that links the three sides seamlessly, facilitating long-lasting relationships that will create increased engagement and excitement into a burgeoning industry that sorely needs more Kiwis.

Voluntari.ly is an initiative by the Pam Fergusson Charitable Trust with support from Datacom, The Ministry of Education, Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED), Spark Foundation, NZ Government Innovation Fund and many leading NZ corporates.