Building Brave: A Conversation About Young People, Anxiety, and Resilience

Be judgment free. Be limitless. Be EXPLO.

EXPLO is a unique, immersive summer program for 12-14 year-olds (grades 6-8) offering 2-week residential and day programs. At EXPLO, you get to experience the world to find your spark. Custom-build your summer fun, from creative workshops to evening events, weekend trips, and more. Join a glow stick party. Go to Six Flags. Experience white water rafting. Try your hand at comedy. See what it’s like to be an aeronautical engineer. Play soccer with friends from around the country—and world. See what it’s like to be a doctor, fashion designer, engineer, pastry chef, and more. When you come to EXPLO, you can be yourself. You find your people without even trying.

Spark your future. Shine bright. Founded in 1976 as a nonprofit startup out of MIT, EXPLO has brought together over 90,000 young people from 101 countries. Our alumni go on to do big things—they found startups like Instagram and nonprofits for climate resilience and youth empowerment, win Grammy and Tony awards, become influential NASA scientists, and more. When you get to try more, be more, and connect more, you feel different. You ARE different. Energized. Inspired. Motivated. Make big-picture discoveries. Have summer fun. Be all you. Be EXPLO.