Year-Round Opportunities for High School Students

Yale Urban Debate League 

By teaching students debate skills, and providing a supportive environment for them to practice and improve, Urban Debate Leagues across the country ignite their passion for learning and empower them to succeed in college and career. Join Yale students in learning the art of debate! Every Tuesday, meet in the library at 2:15 pm to debate on interesting topics, make new friends, and learn new things.

Yale Hemispheres: 

"Hemispheres is YIRA’s international relations teaching program. Once every week, Yale students meet with high school students from the New Haven area to explore a variety of topics in IR and develop analytical, creative, and critical thinking skills. Classes are taught by Yale students and have covered topics from Free Trade to Conflict Minerals to Tourism to the Syrian Civil War."

To learn more, visit their website.

Yale Pathways to Science: 

"With an overarching goal to encourage and support promising young scholars to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math, Yale Pathways to Science opens the door for middle and high school students to explore STEM at Yale University. The more than 1,900 Pathways to Science Scholars are considered the youngest members of Yale’s scientific community and are invited to Yale’s campus throughout the year for special events, academic lectures, demonstrations, laboratory visits, and research opportunities. Once accepted into the program, students are invited to attend more than 150 different programs and events annually, choosing to participate in the opportunities that interest them most. In the past, students have viewed the cosmos at Yale’s state-of-the-art planetarium, launched rockets, built telescopes, examined brain specimens with Yale neuroscientists, and much more. Please note that while a student must be a New Haven, West Haven, or Orange Public School  student in 6th-12th grade to be a Pathways to Science Scholar, there are numerous open-to-the-public events & programs that any K-12 student can attend!"

To learn more, visit their website.

Yale Pathways to Arts and Humanities: 

"Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities welcomes local public high school students to Yale’s campus for a wide array of arts and humanities performances, talks, tours, and seminars. Pathways programs and events include the MOSAIC lecture and workshop series featuring graduate students and professors in history, philosophy, and public humanities, the New Voices in Theater high school playwriting program led by graduate students at the Yale School of Drama, and special exhibitions and behind-the-stacks tours with curators at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New events and programs are developed each year in collaboration with museums and libraries including the art and science of museum curation at the Yale Center for British Art and hands-on demonstrations of medieval pigment recipes and paper preservation with Beinecke Library conservators and archivists. Students have also been able to participate in the Yale Pathways to Arts & Humanities Summer Scholars Program, a free two-week program for New Haven high school students." 

To learn more, visit their website.

Matriculate at Yale: 

"We're undergraduates dedicated to advising high-achieving, low-income high school students through every stage of the college application process. Through one-on-one virtual meetings, we work on building college lists, identifying college fit, writing essays and supplements, constructing resumes, navigating scholarships and financial aid, and making a final enrollment decision. But, most importantly, we advise as students who just went through the college application process. We know how stressful, frightening, and exciting it can be!" 

The applications for the 2024-2025 cohort are currently closed. Applications for 2025-2026 seniors will open in February! 

To learn more, visit their website.

Yale Splash 

"Splash at Yale is an event that brings high school and middle school students to Yale University for one day of unlimited learning. Students who come take classes in a variety of both conventional and unconventional subjects taught by Yale undergraduate and graduate students! Our goal is to build excitement for teaching and learning. We offer a plethora of classes with fascinating content, empowering students to satisfy their curiosities, think critically, and cultivate new passions."

The Fall 2024 Splash session is on Saturday, November 9th.  

To learn more, visit their website.