A couple of SHINE engineers are doing their part to show local kids – especially girls – what their future can look like.
Angela Weier, a nuclear engineering supervisor, and Ann Marie Kozol, a mechanical engineer, are regular volunteers at the Boys & Girls Club of Janesville. And each of them has been recognized recently as The (Janesville) Gazette’s Volunteer of the Week.
Part of Kozol’s mission is to help kids better understand their math homework and to help them have a more positive experience with the subject so that they can use it later in life.
“I knew I could achieve my goal of helping kids have a better time with math but also learn from the Boys & Girls Club about how to work with kids,” Kozol told The Gazette when she was named Volunteer of the Week earlier this month.
Weier has volunteered at the Boys & Girls Club since 2021 and has enjoyed watching some of the kids she sees on a weekly basis grow up right before her eyes.
“I really wanted to work with youth,” Weier told The Gazette when she was named Volunteer of the Week last week. “I wanted to work with them with math, science and other STEM things but I just help out wherever it’s needed.”
She added, “I can see them growing from a person who struggled with anger to a person who has learned better ways to cope.”
The volunteer efforts of Weier and Kozol align with SHINE’s community engagement mission to promote STEAM education.
