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Do you like working with children? How about playing with LEGO? Are you passionate about educational enrichment and STEM education for youth? Would you like to mentor excited instructors on how to use a ridiculous amount of LEGO materials to help teach kids how the world works? If so, then this may be your dream job!
Play-Well TEKnologies (http://www.play-well.org) is an educational enrichment company that introduces children in grades K-8 to STEM concepts using LEGO components.
We are seeking a dynamic, motivated person to manage our awesome operations throughout the area. This is a full-time salaried manager position.
This area is well established for our programs throughout the region, with many longstanding clients and strong partners throughout the community. We need someone who can perform in a fast paced environment and has the flexibility to meet challenges head on. The top priority is maintaining our good relationships with current clients which include many public and independent schools, recreation centers and more, as well as continually assessing competition in the area and providing superior programs. This includes networking with parent communities, doing grassroots on-the-ground marketing and recruiting, running consistently quality programs, and finding unserved pockets or new ways to better meet the high expectations of the sites and parents who we serve.
Buckle up - this is hard work! Lugging 40 pound totes in and out of your car, training and mentoring staff to lead excited kids through challenging projects, managing classroom conflicts and responding to parent questions, caretaking all that LEGO - this will be the toughest job you'll ever love!
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Education / Experience
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Full Time
Social & Legal Services
$143k-190k (estimate)
04/02/2024
06/01/2024
play-well.org
LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA
25 - 50
1997
COLLEEN CHERRY
$5M - $10M
Social & Legal Services
At Play-Well TEKnologies, kids dive into our classes and exercise their innate gift for building. They come away understanding fundamental principles of engineering and physics. The experience boosts their confidence, creativity and ability to collaborate. We provides project-based programs designed to teach principles and methods of engineering to children, ages 5 14, using LEGO. Our curriculum is designed by engineers, building on the math and science skills students learn during the school year. Utilizing over 20,000 pieces of LEGO for each class, we engage our students in solving real-wor...ld engineering challenges that explore concepts in physics, architecture, and engineering. Our goal is to have our students foster a greater appreciation of how things work, and encourage the qualities of inquisitiveness, self-reliance, and self-confidence in children. We have been growing future engineers since 1997. Play-Well TEKnologies currently runs programs in 23 states across the country and teach approximately 100,000 kids a year. Since 1997, hundreds of thousands of students have expanded a natural fascination with building and gained an appreciation of engineering through Play- Wells many programs. Check out our Play-Well Video for more details on who we are and what we do: http://bit.ly/Play-WellLinkedIn We recently asked our staff what it is like to work at Play-Well TEKnologies. This is what they had to say: http://bit.ly/WhatIsItLikeWorkingForPlay-Well
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