Amigos de las Américas (AMIGOS) Summer Programs
A nonprofit that sends teens abroad for two-to-six-week summer service and cultural immersion trips across Latin America, where participants live with host families and lead community-driven service projects alongside local youth.
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Rustic Pathways Service Trips for Teens
Supervised one-to-three-week international service trips for teens ages 14-18 that combine conservation, education-support, or community-development projects with cultural-immersion travel and documented service hours.
Habitat for Humanity Global Village
Weeklong international home-building service trips across dozens of countries, organized for school groups with a teacher leader, giving teens hands-on experience supporting affordable-housing construction abroad.
Teen Community Emergency Response Team (Teen CERT)
A FEMA-backed, nationwide emergency-preparedness training that certifies teens in disaster-response skills like triage, fire safety, and shelter support so they can assist their school and community during emergencies and drills.
Boston Leadership Institute – Electronics & Robotics
A three-week summer program at Bentley University/Gann Academy in Waltham, MA combining mechanical engineering, electronics, and Arduino programming as students design, solder, and code robotic vehicles, with field trips to MIT's Edgerton Center and WPI's Robotics Lab.
Business & Entrepreneurship Academy (University of Miami Herbert Business School)
A two-week summer program on the University of Miami's Coral Gables campus in which high schoolers take part in hands-on entrepreneurship sessions, develop and test business ideas, and work alongside students from across the country.
Envision NYLF Medicine & Health Care
An eight-day pre-college program held at university campuses like Yale, UCLA, and Emory where students practice clinical simulations such as suturing and triage and hear from doctors and medical students about health care careers.