Rosie the Riveter Trust Youth Education Programs (Rosie's Service Corps)
Richmond, CA nonprofit program using WWII home-front history to give underserved middle/high schoolers trade skills, career mentoring, and service experience.
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Living History Youth Summer Institute
Paid six-week Philadelphia program at the Museum of the American Revolution where high schoolers train in costumed historical interpretation.
Museum of Tolerance MOTivating Teens Program
Six-week Los Angeles teen internship where students build public-speaking and dialogue-facilitation skills while learning Holocaust history and museum education.
Joseph S. Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest
National oratory competition by the Sons of the American Revolution where high schoolers write and deliver an original speech connecting the Revolutionary War era to the present.
BAVC Media Youth & Emerging Media Makers (Climate Warriors)
San Francisco Bay Area filmmaking/media-arts intensive where high schoolers create social-impact media projects, including a climate-justice documentary program.
Colonial Williamsburg Public Archaeology Institute
A free, highly selective one-week summer program (two sessions, 10 students each) for students entering grades 9-12, working alongside Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists excavating Custis Square, learning artifact identification, site recording, and interpretation, and concluding with a guided public site tour.
CreaTV San Jose Summer Documentary Institute
A five-week documentary filmmaking and leadership program at CreaTV San Jose, run in partnership with San Jose Works, where teens ages 13-18 research community topics in small groups and produce 5-7 minute mini-documentaries screened publicly at CreaTV.