High School Internship
A WTT? summer internship is always a true group effort, bringing together BPS high school students, BARI and other Northeastern University staff, and a wide array of local partners, from the community to government level. Each year, the internship focus changes while maintaining the underlying goal of youth empowerment.
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The internship documents of all sessions to date available for public use.
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What The Tech? 2024​
What The Tech? 2025
In 2024, high school interns (many who completed the spring workshop) teamed up with and Community Advocacy Fellows from Tech Goes Home (TGH) to conduct a community survey about current attitudes regarding AI. BARI and TGH staff were there to provide guidance and support.
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The result was presentations by the interns on how AI and emergent technology are being addressed by state and federal legislation and how they could in theory benefit Boston. These presentations, especially the survey data they summarized, were then incorporated into testimonies made by the Community Advocacy Fellows to City Councilors.​
Getting Started
Part I: Introductions/Settling In/Survey Designs & Advocacy
Part II: Developing Surveys and Questions
Part III: Finalizing Surveys and Community Outreach
Part IV: Data Science and Descriptive Statistics & Historic Data Analysis, and Analyzing the Data
Part V: The Home Stretch
Part VI: Final Projects
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In 2025, BARI teamed up with the NuLawLab at the Northeastern University School of Law, in order to examine the interaction of artificial intelligence, human rights, and open spaces in Boston. This resulted in interns confronting the challenges posed by the newest forms of tech with one of the oldest: the zine.
Getting Started
Part I: Introductions and Open Spaces
Part II: Human Rights
Part III: Smart Cities
Part IV: Community Engagement
Part V: Storytelling
Part VI: Final Projects