Arts and Culture, Youth

The Harvard Film Archive screens films Friday through Monday at our cinematheque located in the historic Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts right in Harvard Square. Click on links for details!

We've created orienteering courses throughout the city of Cambridge to get you and your family outside and moving around. Check out our map courses on our website!

We offer a progression of map navigation activities for home-schooled students who want to learning individually or in a group.

We are dedicated to closing the students' skills gap so they can progress into successful summer internships in life sciences companies and academic labs.

We offer a tuition-free summer program where youth learn about gardening, STEM activities and experiments, environmentalism, leadership, and team building games.

We offer a wide array of classes and clubs, a work-study program, and media making support for all students.

We 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.

Qualifying individuals can apply to receive affordable internet access and a new laptop.

We provide six years of after-school and summer programming for middle and high school students on the path to college.

We offer summer ballet classes and dance programs, primarily for children of all levels ages 3-10 years-old.

We provide an engaging and empowering summer dance program for children and teens.

We offer a summer camp option for 3 weekly sessions for current 1st-6th graders. Each week has a different topic as the central theme.

Our overnight camp provides activities and intensive workshops in performing arts to youth from low-income families.

We host summer break theatre camps for 8-12 year-olds, led by professional actors and teaching artists from Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Join us for one or for both!

This is a free-of-cost STEM summer day program aimed at students with low income and/or low exposure to STEM.

We offer STEM programs at various locations across New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts to children ages 4-13.

We help girls develop courage, confidence, and character through community service, exploration, workshops and adventures, including lessons in STEM, outdoors, life skills, entrepreneurship.

Girls in our summer camps will have fun and build character through community service, exploration, workshops and adventures, including lessons in STEM, outdoors, life skills, entrepreneurship.

Explore exciting technologies, enjoy outdoor activities, and make new friends! Tech Explorers, LEGO® BattleBots®, Drones and Bots, Minecraft Makers, and more.

We offer two, weeklong summer sessions where current middle grades youth visit our galleries and campus to learn new skills in hands-on workshops, fun activities, and a creation showcase.

We help basketball players with skill development via time and gym space to practice, technology to record their progress, and coach-mentors to advise them.

Enrolling now for Summer 2025! Nurture your child’s confidence, creativity, and musicianship, and let their imagination soar.

Our summer programs provide a creative, hands-on learning experience like no other. Get ready for a summer brimming with thrilling explorations and discoveries alongside us!

An Actors' Shakespeare Project and Central Square Theater Youth Co-Production
July 1- July 28 (Four Week Program / No Session July 4)

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture! Learn about the animals of the zodiac in this fun scavenger hunt across two museums, perfect for all ages.

We offer STEM programs every summer at various locations across New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts to children ages 6-13.

We offer regular programs, individual classes, and ZooCamp over the summer that features a curriculum of animal, science and conservation-based games and activities for children in grades PreK-12th.