Design Education
A thriving design industry requires a pipeline of diverse, talented, and passionate practitioners.
That’s why we provide youth with paid opportunities to explore careers in design. We recruit students from diverse backgrounds and identities. We connect them with design practitioners and empower them to shape their world.
Kathleen Yick, SEED 2024
Youth Design Education Programs
Get Involved
College students: apply to be a teaching assistant.
Nonprofits: Work with our interns on a design project.
Our state and city grants multiply your impact by 10!
Students introduced to careers in design
Alumni continue to pursue a career in design
Local communities represented by students
Hear from our SEED Alumni
“It was here that I found my interest in architecture.”
SEED 2018 intern
SEED 2019-2022 teaching assistant
current Sasaki designer
“During SEED, I found out I enjoyed learning about it a lot more than I thought I would and I had a really deep interest in the field.”
SEED 2022-2024 intern
SEED 2025-2026 teaching assistant
“ You really learn some key leadership skills and that can definitely translate into working in architecture.”
SEED 2021 Teaching Assistant
Our students have continued in design and related fields at…
- Boston University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Cornell University
- Endicott College
- Fitchburg State University
- Harvard University
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- MIT
- Northeastern University
- Syracuse University
- Tufts University
- UMass Amherst
- UMass Boston
- University of Miami
- University of Toronto
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Wellesley College
- Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Our students have gone on to further their careers at…
