Needs From: Serve Virginia

Amazement Square invites your family to participate in the most magical and memorable kids' race in the city! Join us before and after the run for our Family Festival featuring discovery stations, face painting, and food trucks.

Volunteers can sign up and choose to set up the event beforehand, help carry out our Family Festival, line the racecourse and cheer on the runners, and tear down/clean up afterwards.

Looking for individuals with experience working with children with autism, neurodivergence, or other support needs.

Through partnership with Centra Autism Center, this program provides a welcoming and supportive space for neurodivergent children to engage in both open-ended and guided LEGO play. Designed to encourage creativity, social interaction, and self-paced exploration, the hangout promotes a sense of belonging through shared interests and hands-on activities.

Volunteers will act as experienced support to help facilitate LEGO play for children and their families.

Program volunteers assist with the museum’s weekly HIVE programming on Saturday afternoons. Volunteers will interact with museum visitors and assist with set-up, facilitation, and clean-up of the program. Shifts are available Saturday afternoons during operating hours.

Birthday volunteers work with birthday facilitators in cleaning, resetting, and tearing down birthday rooms as well as assisting with activities during enhanced birthdays. Shifts available on Saturdays and Sundays during operating hours. Must be 16 years or older.

Facilities entails painting, staining, cleaning, setting up and tearing down from rentals, organizing facilities-related inventory, landscape care (weeds, branches, snow), and moving facilities-related items to and from storage. Shifts available Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm.

Gift Shop volunteers will assist the shop manager in keeping the Café Amaze clean and organized. Volunteers will assist guests with purchases which requires running our register and money handling. This would be a great experience for students who plan to run their own business! Shifts are available Wednesday - Sunday during operating hours. (Must be 16 years or older)

Gallery Attendant volunteers work with Museum Educators to help visitors explore and understand hands-on, interactive exhibits in the museum's multidisciplinary galleries. Shifts are available Wednesday-Sunday during operating hours. This is our most popular volunteer opportunity!