Seattle teen Anika Krishnan identified a need during the pandemic for nonprofits to find more volunteers, so she created a mobile app called Treefish to connect teens with remote volunteering opportunities. Her app was selected as a national finalist in a competition by ProjectCSGIRLS in 2020.
Two nonprofits, Experience Camps and Connected Camps, and University of California, Irvine have joined forces to create a Minecraft server that connects and supports students who have experienced loss. Children who join ExperienceCraft can build, chat, play, and share with one another across a wide variety of in-game activities. But those who participate have all had one unfortunate experience that ties them together.
The Peace First Challenge helps youth (aged 13–25) create and lead projects that address injustice in their community through compassion, courage, and collaborative leadership. All they have to do is upload a one-minute reel on their Instagram or TikTok profile, showing how young people are changing their communities for the better.
The US Department of Defense (also known as DoD) provides STEM education, outreach, and workforce development opportunities to students of all ages and educators throughout the country.
Eye to Eye brings together middle school students (grades 5–8) who learn differently with local high school and college students who also learn differently, in a supervised, school-based setting.