Opportunities for Students

National Student Leadership Conference

Now enrolling for 2026  

The National Student Leadership Conference provides an immersive pre-college experience that prepares students for life beyond middle and high school, allowing them to study in university classrooms, learn to navigate a campus, and experience living with roommates. Students are able to explore a career concentration they are interested in before going into college and declaring a major. Each NSLC program also contains a leadership curriculum designed to teach skills that can apply to all areas of life. 

Eligibility:

For high school programs, students must be between the ages of 14-18 and have completed at least one year of high school. Students may attend NSLC through the summer following high school graduation. 

Fir Acres Writing Workshop  June 21st - July 4th, 2026

Priority Application DEADLINE:  January 1st, 2026

Fir Acres Writing Workshop is open to rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. 

At Fir Acres Writing Workshop, sixty high school students from across the country come together for two weeks to write and join a community of writers on the beautiful, wooded campus of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

In daily Workshops, participants study great writing and produce their own under the guidance of dynamic, thoughtful, published faculty. At night, participants gather to socialize, meet and hear from distinguished visiting writers, and work on their own poetry, fiction, and creative prose.

Our mission is to provide a high-caliber, pre-collegiate, creative educational experience to bright, inventive, and passionate high school students. Our program appeals to young writers and artistic students who are drawn to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest and the fun, hip mystique of Portland.

Morehouse College TRIO Program: Regional Upward Bound Math Science

Our program provides its participants with an academically advanced and intensive 5-week residential STEM-based summer program that takes place on our campus. Students will live on campus, attend classes, and conduct research alongside college professors and field experts. The courses taken during the summer will prepare students for their upcoming academic school year. Students will also work with participants from varying states and meet new friends. 

Looking for Highly motivated, disciplined, driven, and hard-working students, who:  

• Are U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents of the United States 

• Are rising 9th, 10th, & 11th graders in the 8 targeted states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi) 

• Are in good academic standing · Intend to pursue a four-year college degree. Must have a 3.0 GPA or higher 

• Meet federal government guidelines as a low-income, first-generation student, or BOTH.  

Lexington Sister Cities 2026 Youth Exchange Programs

Applications due Friday, November 14th, 2025

Have you ever wanted to travel internationally?  Make new friends? Try new foods? You could next summer! Click the link above to apply.  The cost is airfare, but scholarships are available!  

Deauville, France   County Kildare, Ireland     Shinhidaka, Japan     Newmarket, England

**FCPS does not endorse or sponsor the organization or activity, just advertise it's availability. 

Immigrant and Refugee Student Services

At BCTC, our Immigrant and Refugee Student Services team is dedicated to supporting you in achieving your short-term and long-term goals. We offer a variety of programs and services designed to help you navigate academic, vocational, and career pathways. 

Services and Programs Offered Include:

• Immigrant Enrollment and Engagement Services

• Refugee Vocational Training Program

• Global Career Navigation Services

Family Financial Support Services

The University of Kentucky's Individual, Relational, and Financial Therapy (I-RAFT) Clinic is a community wellness facility supporting mental health and personal finance needs in the community. Our staff consists of therapy interns and financial coaching interns. 

Our therapist interns are in their Family Sciences Master's program at UK. Our interns are supervised weekly by their clinical supervisors who are licensed Marriage and Family therapists within UK's Family Sciences faculty..

Financial coaches are enrolled in UK’s Family Financial Counseling (FFC) undergraduate program. These financial coaches are under the direct supervision and instruction of Accredited Financial Counselors® within the Family Financial Counseling faculty. Financial coaching services are provided to the public community at no cost. 

The I-RAFT Clinic has contributed its efforts to the community for more than 30 years. As a nonprofit, the I-RAFT Clinic's first priority is to provide a place of genuine personal growth for professionals in training and their clients.

The I-RAFT Clinic always has open doors. We are an extension of the University of Kentucky and we work with members of the Lexington community from all backgrounds.

Turn Up Youth Activism Remote Internship 

The TurnUp Internship program is fully remote.
We start new interns at the beginning of each month.
We accept high school, college, and graduate students who apply.
We understand our community lives busy lives, so we allow our interns to have flexible time commitment. We ask interns to work between 5-30 hours/week.
Internship hours can count towards community service OR school credit.
We encourage interns to meet with and engage with our network of expert speakers and leading figures from a variety of fields.

Interns will earn valuable letters of recommendation from team leaders and those they worked closest with, become eligible to win prizes and awards for inductees and widen their networking scope with a national organization.