For Youth, By Youth
Youth Entrepreneurship Programs
In 2024
103
Summer Immersive Participants
Certificates Awarded
43
Undergraduate Interns
31
68
High School Interns
Partnerships
10
Student Ventures Launched
10
$9k
Stipends for Creative Entrepreneurs
in Scholarships
$12k
Social Innovation Programs
What happens when you invite teens to solve BIG problems through innovation?
Check out our latest initiative - Teens Tackle Hunger
Applications for Spring 2025 coming soon!
Summer Immersives
Looking for Summer Opportunities? Come spend a week (or two - or three) with us.
Take a look at our Summer 2024 News
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Creative Entreprenuership
Are you an artist? Musician? Writer? Photographer? We've got you!
Check out our Shiboka MagaZine
Inquire HERE to join the 4th edition of Shiboka - Coming Soon!
Youth Advisory Council
Become a leader in our organization.
Paid internships are available.
“I want people to know that not only does the impact affect Durham, it affects who you are as a person.”
- CJ Williams, YAC Co-Director
"I believed that there were only traditional routes to go through, whether that was being a doctor, being a lawyer, or being an engineer, but echo allowed me to see that there was more, and that I could even create my own path in life. Echo opened doors for me if I wanted to walk through them.
As teens, we believe that we have no power in our hands, because we're at such a vulnerable age where we don't really have a lot of resources. But I think echo taught me that even the small differences, like the Teens Tackle Hunger campaign, we do have the power to affect change step by step."
- Michelle Ramirez, echo alum, Harvard freshman
