We Design & Deliver Curriculum and Programs

BARI’s K-12 programming supports Greater Boston’s young people to harness their research, data, tech skills, and local knowledge to make real, meaningful change in their communities and shape our rapidly evolving world. Our work ensures that today’s young civic leaders are not only critical thinkers embedded in their communities, but that they are also data-driven and fluent in their use of technology and digital platforms.

What The Tech? is an after-school spring workshop and summer internship program that engages young Bostonians in serious questions regarding data science and emergent technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), from their potentials and perils to their impacts on the city they call home.
School Partnerships elevate the voices of young researchers by creating spaces for sharing civic research, data, and tech work that students produce as part of What the Tech? and other civic research opportunities, including at BARI Conference and the Boston Latin Academy Research Festival. The team also engages with youth as part of the Common SENSES sensor placement and mitigation planning processes.
Open source curricula used by BARI as part of the What the Tech? programs and shared with K-12 educators who want to incorporate our lessons into their syllabus.