AIA Brooklyn Architecture Week – Volunteer Opportunities
AIA Brooklyn is excited to launch Brooklyn’s inaugural participation in AIA National’s Architecture Week! Brooklyn’s Architecture Week will take place on April 13-19, focusing on educating the community, especially the K-12 children on architecture and career pathways in the built environment. As a part of this initiative, AIA Brooklyn is hosting educational architecture “studios” for high school students at the Brooklyn College of Technology (City Tech) on April 18-19 (Saturday and Sunday).
JOIN our Mentoring Architectural Pathways (MAP) Committee to help facilitate educational workshops for high school students, lead firm tours, provide lunch and learn firm tours, teach sketching, demonstrate how to study an urban block, instruct how to build basic models, coach a framework for public speaking to present your pin-up, and many more opportunities to shape the future architect leaders.
This two-day workshop will be held at City Tech’s Vorhees Hall on April 18th and 19th (Saturday and Sunday), from 9AM-4PM starting with a welcome address and ending with a celebratory “pin-up”.
All participants will earn CEU certificates based on half day participation. We encourage facilitators for the architecture “studios” to sign up for both full days to build the mentoring with the high school students.
Program Overview:
Architecture Week centers on hands-on learning experiences for students, facilitated by volunteer architects, emerging professionals and college students. Approximately 100 high school students are invited to participate; organized into “studio” groups of 5-7 participants each with 3 leaders+assistants. Our goal is to open the architecture profession’s pipeline to students, many of whom have limited access to architecture or design classes in their high schools.
We all play key roles in educating and inspiring the next generation of architects. Let’s build the pipeline together.
Firm tours on 4/18/26 would begin as early as 11AM and end by 2PM. Please select from the menu options below.