Community Based opportunities
SuccessLink| Ages 15 - 18
Check out exciting opportunities to work in fields like the arts, government and advocacy, STEM, sports and recreation, childcare, education, and more! Click here to learn more and apply. Sociedad Latina| Grades 9th - 12th
Developing leadership and workforce skills through a paid opportunity Click here to learn more and apply. |
ABCD| Ages 14 - 24
ABCD offers a range of youth programs to help you stay in school, prepare for a career, and build a strong foundation for a successful future Click here to learn more and apply. More Than Words| Ages 16 - 24
Are you experiencing homelessness, out of school, involved with DCF/DMH/DYS, or on probation? Come work in a paid 6-12 month job training program, learn skills, and receive support to advance your goals Click here to learn more and apply. |
Environmental Opportunites
Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s School Year Youth Leadership Program| Ages 15 - 18
Participants will learn about everything from climate change, watersheds, how to how to create a nature journal, how to facilitate a presentation, observing bird language and much more. Click here for more information. Stewards of the Future Summer Program| Ages 15 - 24
This steward position offers the paid opportunity for youth to work on a team of stewards with Park Rangers at Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, and Longfellow House- Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Click here to learn more and apply. |
Food Project Summer Program|Ages 14 - 17
The Food Project’s nationally recognized approach to leadership development combines agriculture, enterprise, and service to create a rigorous, practical, and integrated experience. Click here to learn more and apply. |
Stem Opportunities
LEAH Project - STEM Internship| Grades 10th and 11th
Receive intensive training on classroom behavioral management, lesson planning, professionalism, and STEM topics relevant to LEAH curriculum Click here to learn more. |
CSTO Change Creators |Ages 14 - 19
Change Creators interns learn photography and video production skills while learning and creating projects about important social issues impacting their communities. Interns receive a learning stipend throughout their program. Click here to learn more |
SquareTech IT Training Program |Ages 14 - 19
This tech-based youth program engineers a foundation of learning and developing skills through a series of technology and business based training workshops. Youth then apply their learned IT training to refurbish computers, which are then available for suggested donation Click here to learn more |
CSTO Media Maker |Ages 14 - 20
Media Makers interns learn about different media production skills while creating projects about important social issues impacting their communities. Media Makers equips interns with a variety of skill sets including: Digital Illustration/Graphic Design, Animation, Public Artwork & Social Media Strategy. Interns receive a learning stipend throughout their program. Click here to learn more |
Media & Arts Opportunities
Artist for Humanity's Youth Art Enterprise |Grades 9th - 11th
Artists For Humanity’s (AFH) Youth Arts Enterprise employs Boston teens to work with a variety of art media. Working in collaboration with artist/designer mentors, teen apprentices learn new skills, make art using a variety of media and provide creative design services for business clients of AFH. Click here to learn more and apply. |
UNpaid Enrichment Opportunities
Digital Ready|10th - 12th Grade BPS Students
Digital Ready’s AP Computer Science A studio allows students the opportunity to explore code, robotics, VR, artificial intelligence, game design and sound engineering. Emerge with a digital portfolio that they can use to apply for a tech apprenticeship in summer of 2022 Click here to learn more and apply. MIT Amphibious Achievement|
Grades 9th -12th Amphibious Achievement is a unique, cost-free program based out of MIT designed for high school students in the Boston and Cambridge communities. Click here to learn more and apply. |
Artward Bound| 9-12th grade
Artward Bound is a free four-year college access program that prepares 9-12th grade Boston-area students interested in art and design with the artistic, academic, and life skills needed to thrive in college and beyond. Learn more and apply here. ICA Teens| ICA Teens is where we make art, tell our stories, discover new perspectives, meet new people, get out of our comfort zone, express ourselves, make beats, make film, and learn who we are Click here to learn more and apply. |