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All Schools
Apply Now for the Service in Schools Program! Engage Your Students in Action + Advocacy!
Deadline: November 19, 2024
Event: October 24, 2024 through November 19, 2024
Contact: Service in Schools
Service in Schools is excited to offer three professional learning and student programs for K-–10 classes. The Kids Action Team (for grade K-3), Students Taking Action Today (for grades 4-8), and Students Advocating for the Environment (for grades 6-10), are all designed to support teachers in leading students through a service-learning project to address a community need, in either a classroom or club setting. Review the program FAQs and complete an online application.
Middle and High School
Down to Earth: Space Science for Community Change
Event: October 2024
Deadline: October 24, 2024
Contact: Sandy Roberts | 212-840-2244
Calling all budding environmentalists and space enthusiasts! Join Science Friday and the International Space Station National Laboratory on a FREE cosmic mission to combat climate change in your own neighborhood. With Down To Earth you will get hands-on weekly design challenges that use easy-to-find, inexpensive supplies, and you will explore exciting STEM careers with real astronauts and space experts during live online events every Friday afternoon where you can ask questions and share ideas. Find out more on the Science Friday website.
High School
Lucille Lortel Theatre's NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship
Deadline: December 3, 2024
Event: January 16 through March 31, 2025
Contact: Alana Canty-Samuel
The Lucille Lortel Theatre's NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship is an exciting 11-week playwriting mentorship program focused on sparking and showcasing young creative voices. Up to seven fellows will be chosen, one from each of the five boroughs and one each from D75 and D79 schools. The fellowship culminates with an evening of staged readings of these original student-written one-act plays with professional actors. The program is FREE and open to any NYC public high school student with something to say. Visit their Lucille Lortel Theatre website for more information and to apply.
Computer Science for All Pathfinders Internship
Deadline: December 27, 2024
Event: March through June 2025
Contact: Amanso@schools.nyc.gov
Computer Science for All’s Pathfinders Paid Internship program is a 60-hour internship program for students who are interested in gaining computer science work experience—in-person or remote—and attending career development workshops. Upon successful completion of the program, students will receive a certificate of completion. View the program FAQs and apply online.
Inside the Rehearsal Room: Creative Careers
Deadline: February 3, 2025
Event: February 18 through 20, 2025
Contact: Sarah Kutnowsky | 212-763-1223
Spend your mid-winter recess at New York City Center exploring the many careers available in the arts. Focusing on the rehearsal process, students will embody the roles of Director, Music Director, and Choreographer to learn about their important collaboration that brings a production to life. The program is FREE and includes lunch. Learn more and apply on the New York City Center website.
Snowy Winters? Unwrapping Climate Change
Deadline: December 12, 2024
Event: December 13, 2024
Contact: Shihadah Saleem
Visit the New York Hall of Science for an evening discussion on climate change and its intersections with education, fashion, sustainability, and more. Attendees will hear from diverse experts in the field, gather resources, and participate in mini activities with invited organizations and NYSCI Explainers. Attendees can create digital habitats in the interactive Connected Worlds exhibit and end the night gliding away on the synthetic glice rink. This FREE event will take place at 6pm at the New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street, Queens, NY 11368. Pre-register now on the New York Hall of Science website.
Tech Scholars: Web Design Program at The New York Historical
Deadline: January 12, 2024
Event: February 17–21, 2025
Contact: Rachel Ebersole
The New York Historical is now accepting applications for the mid-winter recess Tech Scholars: Web Design Program. Explore how women across the spectrum of race, class, and sexuality exercised power and effected change. Be a digital changemaker and learn how to use HTML and CSS to design, code, and build your own websites to share powerful stories about women in history. Learn more about this FREE program and apply now on The New York Historical website.
L.O.V.E. Mentoring Program
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Event: September 2024 through June 2025
Contact: Claudia Espinosa The Latinas On the Verge of Excellence (L.O.V.E.) Mentoring Program empowers young women to identify their innate strengths and fulfill their personal and professional goals through mentorship and health education focused on mental, reproductive, and physical health, as well as college and career readiness. The L.O.V.E. school-based program is delivered in partner schools as a class for female-identifying students, featuring specific instruction that covers social and emotional content and meets health education standards. From September to June, mentors and mentees participate in weekly, hour-long sessions guided by a curriculum consisting of four core components: mental health, reproductive health, college access, and career readiness. Learn more on the L.O.V.E. website.