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Y2Y Harvard Square, a student-run overnight shelter, employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe and affirming environment for young adults experiencing homelessness. Y2Y guests will have opportunities to collaborate with service providers, other youth experiencing homelessness, and student volunteers to create sustainable pathways out of homelessness and develop skills for long-term success. Y2Y provides opportunities for both guests and volunteers to become the next generation’s leading advocates for youth-driven solutions to homelessness.

OCC Youth Unleashed is a youth-led non-profit organization focused on enhancing youth engagement in community centers and child-oriented programs throughout Boston. Recognizing the challenge of accessing updated information about activities in various community centers, OCC Youth Unleashed addresses this issue by developing and managing a consolidated, user-friendly mobile application. This app serves as a central platform for youth to discover activities and opportunities available in community centers, helping to promote youth development and raise awareness among public and private entities, as well as individual young people.

A digital platform aimed at organizing and discovering local events and activities for like-minded people aged 55+ in Sweden. Still Active’s main goal is to reduce loneliness among the aging population through encouraging new friendships and more frequent social interaction. The users list their interests in the app, allowing it to give recommendations on hand-picked, local activities from users, by users.. We encourage our users to organize their own events, where they can share their knowledge and interests with like-minded people. Still Active become the leading lifestyle platform for 55+ in the industrialized world. We are 55+ reinvented.

People of any age can benefit from orthodontic treatment. Teeth that are crooked, crowded, or that stick out affect the way your teeth look and work. These changes improve not only the look of your smile, but the health and longevity of your teeth. A referral from your general dentist is not required to be seen at our office, however they are welcomed. Their practice consists of young children, adolescence and adult patients. They feel privliged to have the opportunity to get to know them while they help shape their smile and improve their lives. In general, orthodontic treatment time ranges from 18-24 months. The actual time can depend on the growth of your mouth and face, your cooperation in your treatment, and the severity of the problem.

WeThrive is a collective of undergrads that mentor and teach life skills through entrepreneurship to youth of under-resourced communities. They work through college student chapters that operate as entrepreneurial hubs for their peers and local community. College students engage in their youth mentoring program, national initiatives, and play a role in their campus leadership. Within their youth mentoring program, youth participants create ventures of their own, earn revenues and donate all profits to charity over the course of an academic school year. Most importantly, their youth participants are learning life skills and adopting habits that allow an individual to achieve their goals and definition of success. They use a full-circle mentoring approach so not only do youth participants receive mentorship, but their college students also receive coaching from WeThrive National and mentorship from local professionals.

Teens In AI is an Acorn Aspirations' initiative, launched at the AI for Good Global Summit at the UN in May 2018, exists to inspire the next generation of AI researchers, entrepreneurs and leaders who will shape the world of tomorrow. It aims to give young people early exposure to AI being developed and deployed for social good. Through a combination of teensinai’s own hackathons, accelerators, and bootcamps together with expert mentoring, talks, company tours, workshops, and networking opportunities the program creates the platform for young people aged 12-18 to explore AI, machine learning, and data science.

Learning Unlimited is an incubator and national support structure for independent, college student-led educational programs. 7th-12th grade students get to discover hundreds of different topics on a college campus. At campuses such as MIT, Northwestern, and Duke, we enable 900 college student volunteers to reach over 6000 pre-college students. They will reach over 60,000 students annually at over 65 campuses by 2016.