School-age kids already flip your burgers, sign you up for newspaper subscriptions and lifeguard at local pools. But what about leading a tour at a museum?

That’s exactly what some young Las Vegans will do starting Saturday, September 19, at the Neon Museum, as the Downtown institution launches its Junior Interpreter program with its first teen-led tour at 9:30 a.m.

“Prior to this we didn’t have a lot of opportunities for younger volunteers,” says Executive Director Danielle Kelly. “We are really excited to expand our ways to provide volunteer opportunities for young people.”

A nine-month program, the Junior Interpreter tours led by high school and middle school students will he held every third Saturday through May and are designed for families with children ages 4-12.

“We wanted to offer this program because we know that our regular tours through the museum are more adult-oriented,” Kelly says. “There is so much information and [many] ways to interpret the collection that can be very appealing to young people … the shape of the information [on Junior Interpreter tours] is engaging and interactive and interesting and fun for little ones.”

Just like the museum’s adult docents, the junior interpreters go through a “multi-tiered, multi-week” training program, learning the history behind the iconic signs, the science and technology of neon and the visual culture of Las Vegas. Kelly says adult supervisors will oversee each tour.

“It’s way more fun for a little one to learn from another young person, right?,” suggests Kelly. “There’s a way that a young person, a middle-schooler or a high-schooler, can talk about what’s exciting for them to experience [with] the collection, that maybe an adult might not be able to plug into the same way.”

Tickets for Junior Interpreter tours cost $5 per participant—a steal considering the museum’s regular tour ticket prices (general admission for day tours is $18, while night tours are $25)— and advanced registration is required.

Kelly says as word spreads the museum is receiving more school-age children interested in signing up for the program. “The hope is that it will build confidence [in] our young tour guides, and also that it will grow our future members, our future visitors [and] our future volunteers [at] the museum.”

For more information and to purchase tickets to the museum, visit neonmuseum.org.