BBYO is a global Jewish youth movement in 60+ countries, uniting 65,000+ teens. Dive into new experiences, friendships, and a fresh perspective . BBYO Passport summer programs combine elements of active touring, community service, and meaningful Jewish experiences. Spanning 20 countries, we offer over 30 different programs with a range of program themes for teens currently enrolled in grades 8–12.
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BLUE missions at university of michigan
Travel to the Dominican Republic to work on the construction of water or sanitation projects. During this 7 day experience you will work on either a water or sanitation project that will make a long lasting impact on the benefitting community. Celebrating 15 years of service immersion trips, BLUE aims to inspire students to understand their role in creating a better world. Participants earn up to 100 hours of community service.
Service - Connect families to clean water or sanitation
Leadership - Find your power to change the world
Cultural Immersion - Live and work in a rural community and practice your spanish
Impact - Understand your role in creating a better world
A top-rated program with authentic immersion, inspiring trip leaders, and unforgettable impact. A full cultural immersion experience, you will live and work alongside locals to learn about global citizenship and sustainable development. Weekly trips May through August 2026!
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Cardigan’s Summer Session offers a vibrant mix of academic and extracurricular activities designed to inspire and engage students. Mornings are dedicated to hands-on, experiential learning across diverse subjects, including ceramics, forensics, creative writing, coding, and wilderness survival, along with traditional offerings like SSAT Prep and English as a second language. Wallach, our innovative makerspace, serves as a hub for design, engineering, and creative arts, preparing students for academic success beyond the summer. With a low student-faculty ratio, classes are personalized to meet individual needs. Afternoons and evenings feature activities such as mountain biking, hiking, paddle boarding, tennis, drama, and model rocketry, all set against the stunning New Hampshire mountains. Students entering 10th grade can participate in our Leadership Program, focusing on teamwork, goal-setting, and mentorship, as they guide younger peers. Many students return year after year to reconnect with friends and deepen their bond with this special community. Parents frequently share stories of their children’s growth, independence, and self-confidence upon returning home.
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The Experiment in International Living
The Experiment in International Living offers personalized and small group immersive summer abroad programs for high school students, including internships with college credit. Programs are 3-4 weeks long during the month of July and focused on critical global themes, including:
Leadership Development
Cultural Discovery & the Arts
Language Training
Peace, Politics, & Human Rights, and
Sustainability & The Environment
We are the most experienced and respected provider of summer abroad, and we part of a global NGO, World Learning. Our participants make life long cross-cultural connections by traveling with a diverse group of peers and two group leaders. By living with a host family, our participants learn from locals, become part of a larger host community, and create lasting relationships. Need-based scholarships are available.
The Experiment also offers a fully funded (free!) virtual exchange program for high school students ages 14-19 in the U.S. and Middle East & North Africa (MENA) or Latin America regions that are only 2-4 hours per week this summer, The Experiment Digital: Leadership in STEM and The Experiment Digital: Climate Change & The Environment.
MWS Next Step Programme
The MWS Next Step programme is designed to guide students through thetransition from teenage fame to young adulthood. The focus? Building solid skills in communication, confidence, and self-awareness, while sneaking in some leadership opportunities and revealing those secrets they forgot to teach in school. Participants are 15 to 18 years of age and come from all over the world for a 2-week stay in Montreal (McGill University) and Toronto (U ofT).
Our Where Adulting Gets Real seminars, built around the Five Pillars of Next Step, are all about preparing you for personal and professional challenges. Think of it as your toolkit for stepping confidently into leadership roles during your senior high school years and beyond. Plus, we’re not just talking—these seminars come with interactive projects, first-aid certification, and real-world, hands-on experiences to make sure you’re ready for whatever comes next.
Next Step is part of the MWS Student Camps family, where learning meets adventure and the world comes together. Since 1983, we’ve welcomed over 45,000 students from 50+ countries to our French and English camps, educational trips, and specialty courses. From Canada to the world, we’re all about leveling up skills, forging connections, and creating stories worth telling.
As a family run organization since 1951, Putney Student Travel has offered students the opportunity to shape their world through travel, cultural engagement, friendship, and fun in over 30+ countries. We believe that an essential component of every young person’s education is passionate engagement with the world – an experience far beyond the window of a tour bus. Putney offers transformative high school and middle school experiences with the following areas of focus:
Service: Community engagement and global awareness
Exploration: Adventure travel and cultural immersion
Career: Hands-on experiences to inspire and inform your future career paths
Language: Active immersion in language and culture (Spanish, French and Mandarin language immersion abroad)
Pre-College: Campus based programs at home and abroad with college style seminars, lectures, classes and workshops.
Putney collaborates with some of the world’s most esteemed universities and institutions to create specially designed programs for students interested in history, conservation, and culture; climate, equity, and public health; business, the arts, and more. Our collaborations include Oxford Academia, Harvard Chan C-Change Youth Summit and Columbia Climate School.
Need-based scholarships are available for Putney Student Travel, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Youth Summit, and Oxford Academia programs (in Oxford, American University of Paris, Yale, Temple- Japan, Esade -Spain and University of Siena in Italy).
Radcliffe Emerging Leaders Summer Academy
Program Dates: July 13th - July 24th 2026
The Radcliffe Emerging Leaders Summer Academy is a two-week, intensive experience designed for rising 10th-12th grade students interested in social change who want to deepen their knowledge, skills, and confidence to become leaders in their own communities. The program is held daily from 9 am-4 pm at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute campus in Cambridge, MA. Over the two weeks, participants will learn from changemakers past and present by exploring physical archives and gallery exhibits in addition to visiting local organizations around Boston to meet with social change leaders. Participants will build skills for social change by working in small teams to identify a social issue and by using community-based research to investigate this issue. Drawing on their research, each project team will develop an action plan to address their issue beyond the Summer Academy. On the final day of the program, participants gather for a public event to reflect on their program learnings and showcase their leadership by presenting their social change project research and action plans. Throughout the two weeks, students will experience the power of community by building relationships with high school peers interested in social change, by having support and guidance from Harvard undergraduate mentors, and by creating connection to the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and surrounding communities.
Rein Teen Tours
Rein Teen Tours offers activity-oriented travel programs for teenagers between 13 and 17 years of age. Trips range in length from 2 to 6 weeks with travel throughout the Continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Western & Eastern Europe & Iceland, Greece, and Costa Rica.
Rein Community Service offers 2–4 week volunteer programs in exciting locations such as Hawaii,California, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Tour & Service (a hybrid western teen tour program and community service program with exciting activities).
Sail Caribbean
Sail Caribbean is a teen adventure camp for ages 11-18. They offer programs ranging from 2 to 3 weeks that are centered around sailing, scuba diving, marine biology, community service, and watersports. Based in the British Virgin Islands, campers will get the experience of a lifetime living on 45–50-foot catamarans, sailing to new islands every day, and being surrounded by exquisite and unique environments. Campers will gain personal development skills like leadership and independence while facing challenges alongside their crew mates. Sail Caribbean offers teens the opportunity to get scuba and sailing certifications, learn how to care for the environment, and have the summer of their lives!
Email: info@sailcaribbean.com
Phone: (800) 321-0994
Teen JUST-US Boston
Teen JUST-US is a six-week paid summer social justice experience for teens in the greater Boston are. The program includes a three-day-per-week paid internship at a local not-for-profit. The participants support the organization and work on a social justice project. They spend the other two days as a cohort learning about social justice/tikkun olam from a Jewish perspective, building community, and engaging in field trips and service projects. This program will be run through the Temple Israel of Boston teen program.
Current high school sophomores or juniors can apply. They must be able to access public transportation (Red, Green, Orange, Blue, or Commuter Rail) as our cohort days are at Temple Israel of Boston and all of the internship sites are on the T. There are no costs to the program and the teens receive a $1,000 stipend at the conclusion of the summer. Teens can identify the social justice areas that are most important to them, and we do our best to match them with internships in those areas. Application will be due by mid-March and there will be an interview to follow. More information and the application can be found here: https://forms.gle/4211PxB3i5hdEekWA. For more information, click the LEARN MORE button below or reach out to Fallon Rubin, Program Director at frubin@tisrael.org.
No previous Jewish knowledge or experience required, just an interest to learn more and engage in social justice with peers.
West End House Girls Camp (WEHGC) is an overnight summer camp for girls ages 7-17, located in Southern Maine on Wabanaki Confederacy land on the shores of Long Pond. The WEHGC experience is intentionally small, progressively multi-cultural, and 100% camper-focused.
‘I AM’ is what defines the West End House Girls Camp: I AM Strong, I AM Courageous, I AM Intelligent, I AM ME. Send your girl to a place where they will be encouraged to be their best-self, gain lifelong friendships, and return home saying, “Camp was awesome! Can I go back next year?”
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West End House Camp is an overnight summer camp for boys, ages 7-15, which began in 1908. We are located about two hours outside of Boston in the town of Parsonsfield, Maine, which is equidistant from Portland, Ogunquit, and Conway, NH. West End House Camp is on pristine Long Pond and has a stunning 5,000 feet of lakefront property.
West End House Camp offers 3, 4, and 7 week-long sessions, first-class facilities, activities, and lifelong friendships. As a non-profit, we are
able to sustain our top-notch experience, while maintaining modest rates, due to our parent relationships and the generous support of our alumni and community partners.
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