Parenting Resources, STEAM

We support youth with special needs in afterschool and summer programs so that they can have a successful experience.

The Recreation Department provides quality, affordable and accessible recreational opportunities for residents of all ages in well-designed and maintained facilities.

We provide afterschool care for children in Cambridge.

The Healthy Children Task Force (HCTF) is a community coalition of parents and professionals, formed in 1990, who meet monthly to promote the health of children in Cambridge.

CitySprouts introduces school gardens as a core element of children's public education.

The MIT Educational Studies Program (ESP) hosts events for local middle/high school students and the MIT community.

Cambridge STEAM Initiative aims to engage all residents in Cambridge in quality STEAM learning experiences, regardless of economic and social barriers.

We manage and operate the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Learn about the wonders of our natural world!

Mass Audubon protects 38,000 acres of land throughout Massachusetts, saving birds and other wildlife, and making nature accessible to all.

CCTV (cctvcambridge.org) is the community media center serving Cambridge.

Explore the cultures of the ancient Near East (Israelites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Arameans, Babylonians, Arabs, and many others). Visit the website to see family programs.

We are a community-based organizations teaching young people about science and empowering them to develop positive changes for the environment through engaging, hands-on science and kid-led projects.

The Lemelson-MIT Program promotes invention and the early stages of entrepreneurship across the United States through its prize program for collegiate inventors and its invention education initiative

BioBuilder is a education nonprofit established in 2011 that offers open-access synthetic biology curriculum, and programs to students and teachers around the world.

We empower K-12 girls to embrace STEM through free, hands-on science clubs taught by women mentors in STEM careers in Cambridge, Somerville, Boston.

We educate students through student-led clubs and teams, courses in engineering and high-speed photography, and machine shops and a maker space where students design, fabricate, and test OST projects.

We expose a new generation of students to opportunities in engineering, research, and service to the nation and world through research, educational programs, and collaboration.

We are a non-profit network of locally owned and independent businesses formed in October 2005 to build a strong local economy and a vibrant community.

We help understand and treat human diseases using the power of research.

dynaMIT was founded by MIT students following 3 successful programs under a different name.

Outdoor programming for youth in Kindergarten through 12th grade.