We partner with community organizations to create informative, engaging workshops for students.

With the theme being Youth Empowerment this year, our vision is to give a space to current high school leaders to lead workshops that inspire, educate, and uplift their peers.

We’re proud to announce the following organizations hosting workshops: 

INTERalliance

INTERalliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping high school students explore the thriving IT industry across the region. As a student-run initiative, INTERalliance empowers young people with hands-on experience through our Leadership Council, INTERnship programs, and events like TechOlympics

Ohio Collaboration of Youth Climate Leaders

Ohio Collaboration of Youth Climate Leaders (O-CYCL)-formerly the Cincinnati Electrification Campaign- is a youth-lead organization based in Cincinnati, OH focused on empowering students and their school communities to align their school districts’ energy policies with what the climate science demands. Our goal is to inspire and equip students with the tools and resources they need to help them feel empowered in creating a sustainable and climate just future through effective policy change.

1N5

N5 provides education designed to build mental health literacy, increase knowledge of mental health resources, and normalize conversations about mental health in three primary spaces: schools, communities, and workplaces. The organization partners with local schools and universities to normalize mental health and break down the barriers preventing our youth from seeking help. 1N5 works with administrators, counselors, and teachers on a needs assessment and climate survey to better understand the school environment. Based on this information, they create a customized long-term strategic plan pulling from our comprehensive list of evidence-based programs that include prevention, intervention and postvention programs with proper mental health professional support in place for each school.

Aiken High School – Illustrated Memoirs

Led by artist and educator Dr. Kate Currie, Maketank’s co-founder and executive director, Illustrated Memoirs Project engages refugee and immigrant youth in the Cincinnati-area to write and illustrate true stories from their lives. The goal of this project is to foment intellectual self-trust in the participants, center their lived experience in the classroom, and increase literacies. Through sharing these stories the initiative strives to foster a richer understanding of the experience of refugee and immigrant youth and build a more welcoming global community. They currently have an exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Center!

Groundwork ORV

To bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social well-being. Pairing the nation’s largest youth green workforce with community priorities impacts policy and builds power.

Contemporary Arts Center

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is an art museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, performance art and new media (and one of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States!) . The CAC is a non-collecting art-museum, meaning it doesn’t have a permanent collection, but instead focuses on presenting new and innovative art through exhibitions and programming. The museum also has teen programming, which is free and open to the public. One of their programs being the Contemporary Young Adults (C-YA) Council,  a yearlong, arts focused experience to a select group of students.