Teen workshops

Join us for our annual week of summer workshops for high schoolers that spotlight local and global issues and offer inspiring ways to take action and change the world.

Choose your own adventure: You can pick the topic that most excites you and make it a one-day experience, or you can take as many workshops as you like! Workshops are free and open to rising 9th through 12th grade students.  Space is limited.   

Summer 2024

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  • Close up of sign with hand-written messages of stigma affirmations
  • Teen visitors enjoy the "Our Work" gallery in the Discovery Center while interacting with a quiz.
  • Students colaborating in a classroom
  • Students looking at a microscope projection
  • students presenting innovative ideas to classmates at the Discovery Center
  • Close up of sign with hand-written messages of stigma affirmations
  • Teen visitors enjoy the "Our Work" gallery in the Discovery Center while interacting with a quiz.
    Visitors enjoy the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center in Seattle, WA on June 20, 2023.
  • Students colaborating in a classroom
    Students attend a microbiology class at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD onon November 21, 2016.
  • Students looking at a microscope projection
  • students presenting innovative ideas to classmates at the Discovery Center
    Presenters, visitors, and volunteers attend the 2015 Teen Action Fair at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Visitor Center in Seattle, WA on April 25, 2015. A public celebration of young civic leaders, Teen Action Fair is designed to galvanize young leaders and create excitement about giving back. Presenting organizations include Washington State University 4-H Youth Development Program, Our Lady of Guadalupe School, Junior Asha, Maple Valley Youth Council, and African Promise Foundation.

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