On this month’s podcast episode, we meet Jasa Oliver, a junior at Leechburg Area High School In Pennsylvania, U.S. At the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022, Jasa felt compelled to do something, anything, to honor her Ukrainian heritage. She and her classmates had been…Read More
Zachary S., an 18-year-old senior at Silver Creek High School in Colorado, has career goals. He wants to be a pen tester. Short for penetration tester, this means he wants to work as an ethical hacker who finds and exposes weaknesses in cybersecurity as a way to strengthen defenses against…Read More
This is the story of a passion for entrepreneurship that began more than three decades ago at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with an enthusiastic group of high school and college students – and the life choices that passion inspired. In the years since, Wharton has launched entrepreneurship programs…Read More
It’s been an incredible week for the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition and the Wharton Global Youth Program! Starting on Monday, March 14 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, we began connecting virtually with the Top 50 competition teams – divided into five groups of 10 — to celebrate their semifinalist…Read More
The Wharton Global Youth Program is preparing to launch its second summer of Innovation and Startup Culture (previously Essentials of Innovation) for high school students. This introduction to the world of new-venture creation will be held on Wharton’s San Francisco campus, July 2-July 14 and July 16-July 28, 2023. …Read More
In this month’s Essential Educator blog (written for educators, by educators) Eli Lesser, Executive Director of the Wharton Global Youth Program and a former high school teacher, emerges from countless hours of application reading to suggest some best practices for writing student recommendations. Our admissions team has reviewed applications to…Read More 
Did you know that you are sitting on a goldmine? Data has become the world’s most valuable resource. As we all use technology to power our daily lives, the data about ourselves spills out across the web and, sometimes, into the databases of marketers and other information-hungry organizations. Wharton Global…Read More
It all started in the summer of 2021, when a group of high school students from across the U.S. attended the Wharton Data Science Academy, a then-remote Wharton Global Youth program led by statistics professor Linda Zhao. For their final project, the group of five chose to collect and analyze…Read More
In 2021, Yusuf A. began a new phase in his life: working for the family business. The high school student from New Jersey, U.S., started spending time on the weekends at his dad’s pizza place, taking food orders by phone and preparing pizzas for delivery. While Yusuf’s dad had long…Read More
In February 2022 Olay, the skin-care product giant, announced the latest phase of its #FaceTheSTEMGap campaign, which elevates past and present women leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in an effort to achieve gender equality in STEM fields by 2030. For Amiya Chokhawala, a junior at the Harker School…Read More
