Early Childhood Education Career Training Program
DHSP Community Learning Center and Cambridge Office of Early Childhood (OEC)
This is a free program to help people prepare for a career in early childhood education.
Annual Henri Zerner Lecture: Imprints and Erasures—A New Story of Art
Harvard Art Museums
Tuesday, April 23 6:30pm – 8pm
Paris A. Spies-Gans will show how women have been erased from the history of art and will share discoveries that challenge gendered assumptions.
Birches School Summer Explorations
Birches School
We offer a nature-inspired summer camp with lots of outdoor fun including arts, crafts, hiking, outdoor games, and more!
Bridge to College Information Session
DHSP Community Learning Center
Thursday, May 9 6pm – 7pm
Also: Friday, May 17 12pm – 1pm; Thursday, May 23 6:30pm – 7:30pm; and Monday, June 3 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Learn about a free program that helps adults go to college. Some sessions are online and others are in-person. Look below and click on the link to sign up!
Career Training in Early Childhood Education Information Session
Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP) and Cambridge Public Schools
Monday, May 13 3pm – 4pm
Also: Tuesday, May 21 5pm5pm – 5pm; Thursday, May 30 6:30pm – 7:30pm; and Wednesday, June 12 1pm – Friday, June 21 2pm
Want to become an early childhood educator? Learn about free training for your Child Development Associate® (CDA) credential, including classes, a paid internship and help finding employment.
Celebrating Future Minded: New Works in the Collection: A Day of Spotlight Tours
Harvard Art Museums
Thursday, April 25 11am – 4:30pm
Drop in for a Spotlight Tour featuring artworks in the exhibition Future Minded. Tours will be offered throughout the day!
Consent Camp for Rising 4th-9th Graders
Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women and YWCA Cambridge
A fun, NO-COST camp to help kids develop sustainable activism and leadership skills!
CPS SOARS! Camp
Cambridge Public Schools
We are an in-person, free summer camp with academics and enrichment for Cambridge students in grades K - 4th who need extra summer support.
CPS Summer Scholars Program
Cambridge Public Schools
This is a half day program for rising 6th-8th graders combines small group, supportive learning in English Language Arts (ELA) and Math with fun and socializing.
CRLS Summer Preview Courses
Cambridge Public Schools
We offer summer courses in specific subject areas for students who are interested in new learning experiences or who are from racially or economically oppressed backgrounds.
CSV Learning Centers
Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV)
Riverside Neighborhood 9 East Cambridge and Wellington HarringtonWe provide Learning Centers that serve students in Grades 6–8 who are referred by their teachers for one-to-one tutoring after school.
Events at the Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women
Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women
The Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women hosts many events through out the year in collaboration with community partnerships.
Exhibition Tour: Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Harvard Art Museums
Sunday, April 21 12pm – 1pm
Join us for a tour of the exhibition Future Minded, with chief curator Soyoung Lee.
Free Online Tutoring (K-12)
Boston Community Tutoring
We have an exciting opportunity for you! Boston Community Tutoring (BCT) offers free, one-on-one virtual tutoring for students in K-12.
Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Harvard Art Museums
Friday, March 1 10am – Sunday, July 21 5pm
Examine the museums’ recent acquisitions, spanning centuries and media.
Gallery Talk: A Tale of Two Vessels
Harvard Art Museums
Wednesday, April 24 12:30pm – 1pm
Join curatorial assistant Casey Monahan to explore how two 19th-century ceramic vessels tell two different stories of the United States.
Gallery Talk: Seeing through Laughter—Thomas Rowlandson
Harvard Art Museums
Tuesday, April 23 12:30pm – 1pm
Explore humor in art, exemplified by a selection of Thomas Rowlandson’s watercolors satirizing daily life in 18th-century Britain.
Gender Expansive Youth (GEY)
YWCA Cambridge
Calling all youth interested in exploring gender as a social construct, activism, LGBTQ history, and queer issues!
LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time
Harvard Art Museums
Friday, March 1 10am – Sunday, July 21 5pm
Immerse yourself in a day in the life of a contemporary artist through a tour de force of monumental printmaking.
Lesley STEAM Learning Lab
Lesley University
Baldwin, Mid Cambridge, and Neighborhood 9We are a center for our students and community partners to play, tinker, design, and create. We also research new opportunities for learning through engagement and inquiry-based exploration.
Library Opportunities for Teens
Cambridge Public Library
Mid CambridgeOur CPL calendar links provide a list of all upcoming opportunities for tweens and teens ages 12-18; regular activities include a tween/teen hangouts, 3D printing workshops, and lots more!
Science Club for Girls School Year Programs
Science Club for Girls
We provide free, high-quality, and hands-on science activities and mentoring for children and teens.
Spotlight Tour: Floribunda Stories, with Jieyan Wang ’25
Harvard Art Museums
Saturday, April 20 2pm – 2:50pm
Jieyan Wang ’25 will explore representations of flowers in the history of art and related issues of symbolism, materiality, and abstraction.
Spotlight Tour: Origins and Impacts of Color, with Erik Zou ’24
Harvard Art Museums
Sunday, April 21 11am – 11:50am
Erik Zou will discuss the material nature of color and examine the role of color in three different artworks.
Spotlight Tour: Seeing In/Looking Out, with Sophia Pasalis ’25
Harvard Art Museums
Saturday, April 20 11am – 11:50am
Sophia Pasalis will examine how interior life is portrayed in art and the boundary between public and private life and inside and outside.