Youth Design seeks to prepare and empower a diverse cadre of creative urban youth to become the next generation of designers.
Opportunities in Multiple Dimensions
Youth Design is Boston's leading program that focuses on addressing the critical socioeconomic needs of urban youth by teaching them highly marketable design skills, providing access to unparalleled professional mentors, and supporting them along the path toward higher education. We believe that every student with passion, talent, and drive deserves the opportunity to transform their untapped creative talent into a college education and a promising career.
We achieve life-changing impact through Proving Boston Public High School Students With:
- Mentorships with world-class designers
- 2 concurrent paid summer design jobs
- School Year Workshops
- Access to professional networks
- Critical life skills
Mentorships give our students access to hands-on training in fields ranging from architecture and graphic arts to digital media and fashion. These experiences provide Youth Designers with life-changing opportunities to build crucial job skills, contribute their perspectives in an authentic work environment, put themselves on the path to college, and transform their love of art and design into a career.
Our Summer Immersion Program, combined with online resources, professional development workshops, and school year workshops, gives students a multitude of opportunities to develop their job skills, nurture their creative talents, foster long-lasting relationships with their professional mentors, and position themselves on the path to college. The program promotes diversity in the creative economy and raises awareness of design as an economic engine.
