Visual Arts and Crafts, Youth

We offer STEAM, inquiry-based, and interdisciplinary learning programs that connect youth across cultures through real-world challenges, hands-on exploration, innovation, and mentorship.

Platforms Theatre Company presents a youth acting class for 3rd-5th grade students that explores the actor's toolbox through engaging games, improvisation, and storytelling activities.

We bring robotics, coding, engineering, and design to life—shaping your child’s future through hands-on learning.
Join our afterschool studio with flexible open enrollment or convenient monthly memberships.

Youth ages 13-18 take part in the Teen Media Program (TMP) and Public Art Program, where they engage in projects involving visual art, media, and opportunities to connect with community.

SHINE is a group run by MIT students that strives to instill confidence in female and nonbinary students through a combination of dance, creativity, and math mentorship.

We offer a hands-on STEM Project Course, an Academic Mentoring Course, and Team-Building Activities on Saturdays for 7th - 12th grade youth.

We offer a play-based program for -5th grade students; as well arts programs for 1st-5th and 6th-8th grade students with our partner, Maud Morgan Arts.

We provide free, high-quality, and hands-on science activities and mentoring for children and teens typically one day a week at each location.

We bring robotics, coding, engineering, and design into your child's summer and future! We also have an afterschool studio with open enrollment or monthly memberships available.

We host a fun and challenging program for young artists in grades 9 - 12 who have a desire to expand their knowledge in the visual arts.

We offer various clubs and after-school sports for students.

MathTalk is seeking families with children 4-10 years old to pilot the "Math! Everywhere!" app this summer! Families will earn "MathBuck$," redeemable at local businesses.

MIT Full STEAM Ahead Into Summer welcomes students for 3 weeks of making and creating this summer! Using hands-on learning and project creation, teams of students will construct their own projects!

Discover the nature of Cambridge from the cockpit of a kayak during this late-summer adventure!

The MIT Museum seeks proposals for innovative public programs that explore humanity's relationship with the theme of TIME.

Explore Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters by interactive guided tour! The occupants of this house shaped our nation. A variety of tours invite visitors to connect with their stories.

The program follows an Illustrative Math Curriculum with a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach to math, enabling students to learn mathematics meaningfully.

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

Join us for a math-focused summer! Kids entering grades 3-8 will play math games, learn to do art and music with a math focus, and become better solvers of non-standard, hard math problems.

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!