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Mind Bub­ble fos­ters a love of learn­ing by con­nect­ing stu­dents with com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers through free home­work help.

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Home­work Help

Volunteer tutor watches attentively as young student completes homework in the library

Mind Bub­ble home­work helpers are vol­un­teers who are com­mit­ted to help­ing young peo­ple suc­ceed aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly. Home­work helpers are care­ful­ly screened to ensure that stu­dents are safe, relaxed, and able to learn when they attend our home­work help ses­sions. We have a diverse mix of vol­un­teers who come to us through uni­ver­si­ties, library out­reach and folks who just find us because they want to have fun help­ing young peo­ple learn!

Mind Bub­ble pro­vides free one-on-one home­work help in every aca­d­e­m­ic area for grades K through 8th. We run two home­work help ses­sions per week – Tues­days from 4:00 – 6:00 PM and Thurs­days from 2:30 – 4:30 PM at the Scottdale-Tobie Grant Home­work Cen­ter.

For more infor­ma­tion about home­work help, please email Jared Bush, Senior Library Spe­cial­ist at DeKalb Coun­ty Pub­lic Library at bushj@​dekalblibrary.​org.

Work­shops

Mind Bubble’s edu­ca­tion­al work­shops pro­vide engag­ing learn­ing expe­ri­ences in a vari­ety of top­ics stu­dents aren’t like­ly to encounter dur­ing their nor­mal school day. Out­side groups with a focus on STEAM learn­ing help us offer these excit­ing learn­ing experiences!

Check our events cal­en­dar to find out about upcom­ing workshops. 

Vol­un­teer

Vol­un­teers are at the very heart of Mind Bubble’s work with stu­dents. All of our home­work helpers and work­shop facil­i­ta­tors care about young peo­ple and want them to have great learn­ing experiences!

We know that there is no lim­it to the pos­i­tive impact a car­ing adult can have on a young person’s life. Whether you guide them through a tricky math prob­lem, help them revise an Eng­lish essay, teach them about a top­ic you’re pas­sion­ate about dur­ing a work­shop, or just sit down and play a game with them – you have the poten­tial to make a huge dif­fer­ence in somebody’s life!

In order to begin work­ing with stu­dents, you must first com­plete our vol­un­teer appli­ca­tion. All inter­est­ed vol­un­teers will attend an ori­en­ta­tion where you learn more about pro­vid­ing home­work help. We’ll also con­duct a back­ground check. After that, you’ll be ready to go!

For more infor­ma­tion about vol­un­teer­ing, please email Char­i­ty Ivey, Library Spe­cial­ist at DeKalb Coun­ty Pub­lic Library at iveyc@​dekalblibrary.​org.

About Mind Bubble

Mind Bub­ble is a pro­gram of the DeKalb Coun­ty Pub­lic Library. You can make a dona­tion to sup­port Mind Bub­ble on the DeKalb Library Foun­da­tion site.

For more infor­ma­tion about Mind Bub­ble, please email Jared Bush, Senior Library Spe­cial­ist at DeKalb Coun­ty Pub­lic Library at bushj@​dekalblibrary.​org.