Volunteer Project Catalog
Notre Dame High School
We're looking for volunteers to chaperone a field trip to Mexican Heritage Plaza to watch Alebrijes: A Día de Muertos Tale by Teatro Vision with AP Spanish students. We have approximately 75 AP Spanish students attending. The play is about Pedro Linares and the origin of the "Alebrije" in celebration of Día de los Muertos. AP Spanish studies this as part of the established curriculum, and it also complements the field trip students took last year to see the alebrijes exhibit at Cesar Chavez Plaza. What will chaperones do? - Take student attendance - Help students safely board and exit the bus - Supervise student behavior - Accompany students to the restroom as needed during the performance - Remind students to clean up after themselves after eating
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Notre Dame High School
We'll be having a special gathering for our alums to celebrate Notre Dame's 175th birthday! This event will take place on Friday, October 23rd on the Notre Dame campus, in Pardini Park from 3:30 to 6:00 PM. Volunteer to help make this event a special one for our alums!
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Notre Dame High School
Help us celebrate Notre Dame's 175th Birthday! Our Gala will take place on Saturday, October 24 at Hayes Mansion. We need help with centerpiece assembly, set up, check in and student support.
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Notre Dame High School
Volunteer to help at the Back to School Mixer! The event is Friday, September 18 on the Notre Dame campus. Find out more details about the event on our the ND website: https://www.ndsj.org/students/mixers Available positions include parent volunteer liaison, coat check, snack and beverage area, and event supervision.
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Notre Dame High School
This speech tournament is hosted by our local league. Judges should sign up for either an AM shift (7:30am-12:30pm) or a PM shift (12:30-5:30pm). Each shift will have up to 2 rounds of judging. Judges will be asked to asked to judge any of the various speech events offered by the tournament.
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Notre Dame High School
This debate tournament is hosted by the Coast Forensic League. Judges will be asked to judge any of the debate events offered by the tournament.
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Notre Dame High School
This tournament is hosted by the CSU Long Beach Forensics program. This is a speech and debate tournament for varsity students. Top ranking varsity students can qualify for national level tournaments that are held later this year. Volunteers will need to judge either speech or debate rounds.
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Notre Dame High School
This debate tournament is hosted by Presentation High School. Judges will be asked to judge either Lincoln Douglas or Public Forum debate rounds.
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Notre Dame High School
The ND Speech and Debate team will host an in person MUN Conference for the local high school and middle school community. Teams from across the Bay Area will come to Notre Dame for this early season competition.
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Notre Dame High School
The ND Speech and Debate team will host an in person debate tournament for the local debate community. Teams from across the Bay Area will come to Notre Dame for this early season competition.
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Notre Dame High School
This speech and debate tournament is hosted by Milpitas. Judges will be asked to judge either novice or varsity rounds of either speech or debate events, but will most likely judge the event their student competes in.
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Notre Dame High School
Volunteers interested in working directly with students in an unsupervised manner (eg: working backstage, chaperoning, robotics mentoring) must complete 2 credentials. While this is only required of those working alone with students, we strongly encourage all volunteers to complete them.
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Notre Dame High School
Notre Dame offers four retreats each year, one for each grade level. Freshman and sophomore classes participate in one-day "Breakaway days" and are attended by all students in the grade level. Junior and senior retreats are optional multi-day events. Each retreat has its own program content and supply needs. The volunteer works in partnership with Alicia Aguilar (Campus Minister for Spirituality and Justice) to gather materials specific to each retreat from on-campus storage areas and prepare materials (activity supplies, participant folders, information and materials for staff chaperones and retreat locations). Campus Ministry staff and the volunteer will review materials in storage and determine any items that need to be ordered. The volunteer will gather supplies, prepare storage boxes for transporting to retreat locations, unpack boxes when the retreats are over and return reusable items for retreats to storage for future use. Volunteer may be asked to keep track of quality and quantities of retreat materials. Schedule is flexible and based on retreat dates (i.e., needs significantly increase closer to retreat dates)
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Notre Dame High School
Accompany 9th grade students in service on Wednesday, October 14th. Meet at Notre Dame High School at 8:00am. Shifts will involve accompanying and staff to a neighborhood community organization and serve alongside each other. Return to ND no later than 12:00 PM.
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Notre Dame High School
Each year we celebrate the Junior Class with a special ceremony and lunch for students. Volunteers are needed to help set up and take down student lunch in Pardini Park and/or Family reception in 3rd Street Cafe. This event takes place on Thursday, September 24, 2026. Check in at front office and see Julianne Johnston (Mission & Ministry) after check in.
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Notre Dame High School
Arthur Miller's Classic tale of the Salem Witch Trials, The Crucible showcases the mass hysteria that can occur when we have an "other" to blame for our problems. The Tyranny of the majority shows the audience the horrors we can commit when we have the iron clad confidence that we do all actions in the name of God. Yeah...it's a really heavy drama. We're going to get to do some "Capitol A" ACTING on this one.
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Notre Dame High School
I'm creating this position as a generic "I want to help out". It has all the credentials to volunteer in the house, backstage, or as a chaperone on a trip. One stop shop for helping out at NDSJ, including driving.
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