Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer. Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui visits the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP) learning site at MIT while students worked on T-shirts that imagined how data science could be used to support marginalized communities. Left to right: Yusuf Solomon, Zeynep Yalcin, Olivia Dias, Raechel Walker, Cynthia Breazeal, Siddiqui, Jacob G., Jacob T., Lisa, Jesmin, Nina, Kiki, and Neko. For over 40 years, the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program (MSYEP, or the Mayor’s Program) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been providing teenagers with their first work experience, but 2022 brought a new offering. Collaborating with MIT’s Personal Robots research group (PRG) and Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) this summer, MSYEP created a STEAM-focused learning site at the Institute. Eleven students joined the program to learn coding and programming skills through the lens of “Data ...