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In-school leadership and citizenship course taught by retired military instructors, with drill, service and competitions. There's no obligation to join the military.

Youth service clubs sponsored by local Lions Clubs, where members plan and run community service projects.

Volunteer at your local Feeding America food bank sorting and packing food. Use the finder to locate yours.

Teens can support Make-A-Wish by running fundraisers and awareness events at school or in the community. Wish-granting volunteer roles are for adults.

Local Meals on Wheels programs often accept teen volunteers to help pack or deliver meals to seniors; check with your local chapter.

Mother–daughter service organization: chapters do philanthropy, leadership development and cultural activities together.

The world's largest volunteer cleanup of beaches and waterways. Volunteers log what they collect to help track ocean trash.

Volunteer at a local Ronald McDonald House by cooking meals, running activities or collecting donations for families with hospitalized children.

Service clubs sponsored by local Rotary clubs. Members run community and international service projects and build leadership skills.

Volunteer at Special Olympics events, coach or be a Unified Sports partner, or join a Unified Champion Schools program at your school.

Organize or join a head-shaving event or other fundraiser at school to raise money for childhood cancer research.

Raise money for St. Jude through school and youth fundraisers, or your own event built around a hobby.

Volunteer on habitat restoration and conservation projects at Nature Conservancy preserves, in person or virtually.

State-run YMCA civic simulation where students serve as legislators, lawyers, judges, journalists and officials, ending in a model government session at the state capitol.

Journal that publishes outstanding high-school history research papers. A few published authors each year win the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize.

UNCF runs hundreds of scholarship programs from many sponsors. Some, like the UNCF/FedEx scholarship, are for graduating seniors heading to HBCUs.

State scholarship program for income-eligible Washington students who sign up in middle school and meet program requirements.

Civics curriculum and competition. Classes hold simulated congressional hearings on the Constitution, competing at state level and then in national finals.

Merit-based state scholarship covering tuition for West Virginia residents attending an eligible in-state institution.

Merit-based state scholarship for Wyoming high school graduates attending an eligible in-state institution.

Live with a host family abroad and attend local school for a summer, semester or year in 45+ countries.

Three-week intensive in problem solving and olympiad-style math: daily lectures, group problem sessions, weekly assessments and homework feedback.

Five weeks of ensembles, private lessons and workshops in songwriting, improvisation and music technology on Berklee's campus.

One- and three-week summer programs on themes such as emergency medicine, engineering, astrophysics and business.