Our multi-day residential retreats teach participants proven awareness and concentration practices. Through guided mindfulness meditation, small group discussions, and mindful movement, participants learn how to settle a busy mind, direct and sustain attention, investigate emotions and thoughts, cultivate compassion, and communicate with their peers. The daily schedule includes free time to connect with new friends and dynamic… Read More
With curriculum developed and taught by professors from the University of California, Berkeley, participants will live and work in an intensive learning environment where they will learn and network with faculty and mentors from companies such as Google and Oracle as they create their own companies. From From July 20th to the 28th, participants with a… Read More
The Children’s Garden at the San Francisco Botanical garden is seeking interns to work with our Acorn to Oak program this summer. We’d appreciate your help in getting the word out to interested young people, both for our teen positions and for our senior intern positions (college and beyond). Please send a letter describing your… Read More
BIYSC is a two-week international excellence program organized by Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation that will welcome 100 international students from 16 to 18 years-old in Barcelona from July 9th to 20th 2018. Check out videos below about all of the different projects and visit the BIYSC website for more information and to apply. BIYSC aims to stimulate… Read More
Mos.com’s mission is to make sure bureaucracies don’t stand in the way of people’s aspirations — starting with student financial aid and helping all students afford a life-changing education. Every year, hundreds of thousands of eligible students leave more than $2 billion in federal student aid grants unclaimed — including some families who need the… Read More
Apply here! Founded in 2005, the FACES Summer Medical Academy (FSMA) is a tuition-based, intensive summer day experience designed to expose high school students to the fields of medicine, nursing, and allied health professions. In partnership with Samuel Merritt University, the goal of the program is to offer youth a glimpse into the array of… Read More
Youth Art Exchange is launching a new program called ArtBuild for rising 9th graders. It’s a design program that will include our architecture and printmaking faculty and focus on design solutions for real-world problems. The application can be found here and I hope you can pass it on to your middle schoolers. Application deadline for the program is April 30th. … Read More