As a volunteer (a mentor, a judge, an Ambassador, or an educator), your first step is to review and abide by Technovation’s Code of Conduct.

• Failure to abide by the Code of Conduct could lead to formal warnings from Technovation. Depending on the severity or frequency of the infractions, volunteers may be prohibited from volunteering with the organization for the remainder of the season and future seasons.

In particular, we ask you to:

• Meet during appropriate times in the day or evening. If meeting with children individually in-person or online, do it as openly as possible and inform another adult, such as the children’s parents or guardians, of the meeting.
• Treat all young people as individuals, equally and with respect, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.
• Adopt a zero tolerance policy around harassment or bullying. This includes, volunteer’s treatment of each other, participants, parents/guardians, Technovation staff; and participants’ treatment of each other, volunteers, parents/guardians.
• If you wish to communicate directly with participants outside of Technovation meetings, we encourage you to contact a participant’s guardians to get consent. Here is a template for you to share with parents. When possible, include parents in all communication with children.

In addition to the Code of Conduct, we ask that you review the following to help keep you and our participants safe.

1. Technovation’s Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment policies
2. Internet Safety Guidelines(Technovation) & Child Online Protection Guidelines(ITU) to keep in mind when working with children
3. How to Keep Your Data Safe
4. KidPower provides training and resources to help keep children safe
5. Technovation Privacy Policy and Terms of Use